9th Circuit Majority Finds Sexual Molestation Exclusion Bars Coverage, Reverses

(June 11, 2019, 12:35 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A majority of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 10 held that a sexual molestation exclusion in a renter insurance policy’s child care liability endorsement expressly excluded coverage for the operator of a small child-care facility for claims arising from acts of sexual molestation committed by her adult son “regardless of the theory for liability” (Holly Bayes v. State Farm General Insurance Company, No.  17-56035, 9th Cir.)....