United States Eighth Circuit

In an action by an insurer seeking a declaration that it was not liable under a professional liability insurance policy for the acts of a psychologist who treated a victim of sexual abuse but failed to report the abuse, summary judgment for insurer is reversed where the "knowingly wrongful" exclusion in the policy on which the order was based was ambiguous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2010
• Published 01/11/2010

Judges

• RILEY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, SMITH, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Danieal Howard Miller, of Columbia, MO. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellant brief; Roger G. Brown, of Jefferson City, MO, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gerald L. Angst, of Chicago, IL. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellee brief; Kirsten Anne Byrd, of Kansas City, MO, Douglas J. Schmidt, of Kansas City, MO, Sean Christopher Griffin, of Washington, DC., Sudabeh Wright, of Kansas City, MO, for Appellee.