A Long Island school district is accusing two insurers of ducking their responsibilities to defend and indemnify it against lawsuits by former students claiming they were sexually abused by an elementary school teacher decades ago.
Bay Shore Union Free School District has sued Hartford Insurance Group and CNA Insurance, alleging they are not honoring commercial general liability policies they issued to the district in the 1970s and 1980s.
The New York school district has been named in 45 lawsuits from people who claim they were abused by teacher Thomas Bernagozzi when they were in the