In one of the grimmest, longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent policies barred coverage for incidents that happened as much as 50 years ago.
At oral arguments last week, appellate court Judge Sarah Doyle zeroed in on it:
“I can’t believe, in a million years, that these insurance companies thought in 2020 that they were insuring something from 1970 or whatever,” the judge said. “The question is: Did they inadvertently do