Panel Orders Dismissal Of School District’s Coverage Suit Over Sexual Abuse Claims

(April 13, 2021, 1:56 PM EDT) -- MOUNT VERNON, Ill. — An Illinois appeals panel on April 8 found that a lower court erred in finding that an insurance policy's limit of liability provision that pertained to the single claims provision was ambiguous, reversing and remanding the lower court’s denial of the insurer’s motion to dismiss a school district insured’s lawsuit seeking defense and indemnify for a former student’s lawsuit alleging that he was sexually abused by school official and vacating the lower court’s $1,159,144.37 judgment against the insurer....

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