Excess Policy’s $250,000 Sublimit For Physical Abuse Claims Applies, Panel Affirms

(July 23, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 19 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that an insurer owes only $250,000 under its excess insurance policy toward a $4 million settlement that its foster care provider insured reached with the administrator of the estate of a toddler who was murdered after being placed in a foster home by the insured (Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company v. The Chicago Trust Company, et al., Nos. 18-3181 and 18-3241 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 21539)....

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