The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that a Pennsylvania-based insurance company was required to indemnify a Brooklyn school in a lawsuit by the parents of a child who was severely injured after being hit by a bus carrying its students.

The decision, from a three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court, held that Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co.’s vague refusal to cover Yeshivat Beth Hillel of Krasna under a general liability insurance policy did not comport with New York law requiring a “high degree of specificity” regarding such determinations.