An insurance company covering Penn State has asked a Philadelphia court to declare it should not have to provide coverage or cover the university’s defense costs in a lawsuit stemming from the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal unless the abuse in the underlying case started in what appeared to be a narrow time frame.
According to a complaint seeking declaratory judgment filed by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co. in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Tuesday, the insurer pointed to an “abuse or molestation exclusion” in the second of three consecutive general liability policies that the company said would excuse it from paying for the school’s legal costs.
