Posted on 08/08/2023 5:20:21 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Oberlin College is embarking on another legal battle now that it has finally paid out $36.59 million in damages to a local bakery for falsely accusing the business owners of racism. This time, the college is suing four of its insurance providers after they failed to reimburse the school for the multimillion-dollar judgment in the Gibson Bakery’s case.
After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum to the bakery in September 2022.
Gibson’s Bakery sued the college in 2017, accusing the school and one of its administrators of hurting its business and libeling it over an incident in which the son of the bakery owner stopped three black Oberlin College students, one of whom was stealing wine bottles from the store, in November 2016.....
The lawsuit alleges Lexington and United Educators allegedly “engaged in a systematic, multi-year effort to avoid their coverage obligations by attempting to shift responsibility from the Gibson lawsuit to each other,” other insurance companies or the college.
Lexington and United Educators “both had numerous pretrial opportunities to resolve the underlying litigation for a small fraction of the eventual verdict” and could have settled the case for for less than $10 million before the trial, the school alleges. The college claims it even told the insurance companies to do so....
“If it is established that the defendants knew the alleged statements were false, or if the defendants knew their alleged acts would violate plaintiffs’ rights, the Lexington policy would exclude coverage for any resultant damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
This just makes my day.
Looks like Oberlin has an endowment of $1,200,000,000.00 as of 2002.
$1.2 BILLION. BILLION!
Pay up.
I bet they didn’t buy the slander clause. And these academic types think they are so smart 😂
Liberals trying to avoid the consequences of their own actions...
Why not? They’ve gotten away with it for the last 60 years.
“After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum” This is an odd sentence. Oberlin, like spoiled brats, was FORCED to pay up after delaying as long as possible.
On the bright side, there haven’t been any college administrators inciting mobs lately. The commie witch Raimondo clearly thought she could call out the Red Guard to Mau Mau the bakery into submission. Too bad she was personally responsible for damages.
“After a years long legal battle, Oberlin agreed to pay the massive sum” This is an odd sentence. Oberlin, like spoiled brats, was FORCED to pay up after delaying as long as possible.
On the bright side, there haven’t been any college administrators inciting mobs lately. The commie witch Raimondo clearly thought she could call out the Red Guard to Mau Mau the bakery into submission. Too bad she was personally responsible for damages.
What part of Oberlin College vice president Meredith Raimondo's job involved her slandering a business owner, on the clock, using college resources, and directing students to join in?
Suck it, Libtards!
I hope Trump trolls these creeps. Being psychopath bullies, I’m sure they ‘trigger’ easily.
Good luck with that, Oberlin College. The only winners will be the lawyers.
Indeed.
Aahhh..... thanks for that.
The Insurors had no liability
Hahahaha.
Intentional acts are rarely insured.
Can Oberlin legally stay in existence as an institution without liability insurance?
Strangely, I feel myself being drawn to support the insurance companies in this dispute. Wow. Who would have thought that would EVER happen?
Oberlin College needs to explain the need for Oberlin College. It appears that they don’t really teach anything, but are there to provide liberal covers.
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