WEST VIRGINIA
Courthouse News Service
By EVA FEDDERLY
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (CN) – A West Virginia Baptist church accused of covering up the sexual and emotional abuse of a minor shouldn’t expect anyone but itself to bear the cost of its legal defense, the church’s former insurer says.
The Bible Baptist Church, in Belva, W.Va., its Blue Creek Academy, in Clendenin, W.Va., and two of their employees are accused in an underlying lawsuit if subjecting a minor in their care to among other things, sexual abuse, starvation and isolation.
The plaintiff in the current action provided the defendant church and academy with liability insurance from June 13, 2011, to June 13, 2014.
“Some of the Church Defendants have requested insurance coverage (defense and indemnity) from Brotherhood for the allegations and claims in the Underlying Action,” according to Jan. 21 complaint filed by Brotherhood Mutual. “Brotherhood denies that it has or had any obligation to defend or indemnify any of the Church Defendants.”
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