Majority: Defense Owed For Civil Rights Claims Filed By Man Exonerated Of Murder

(March 17, 2020, 3:59 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A majority of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 17 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding that an insurer has a duty to defend its insureds against underlying civil rights claims arising from the wrongful conviction of a man for his wife’s murder (Argonaut Great Central Insurance Company v. Lincoln County, Missouri, et al., No. 18-2930, 8th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 8337)....

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