Commercial Climbing Gym Tells 4th Circuit Judge Erred In Limiting Coverage

(September 26, 2017, 8:49 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A commercial climbing gym told the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 29 that a federal judge in Maryland erred in finding that an insurance company was required to provide only $100,000 in coverage for the gym’s defense of a negligence suit, asserting that extrinsic evidence presented as part of an underlying trial showed that a 14-year-old girl who claims that she was sexually assaulted was not in its control seven of the eight times the events occurred (Gemini Insurance Company v. Earth Treks, Inc., No. 17-1652, 4th Cir.)....