McCormack v. Jefferson Area Local School Dist.

{¶ 1} Appellant, Donald McCormack, appeals the judgment of the Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas, declaring that his former employer, appellee, Jefferson Area Local School District ("the District"), has no duty to provide him with a legal defense in a civil action filed against him by two former students of the District. The students alleged that appellant, who was their high school basketball coach, sexually abused them. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

{¶ 2} At all relevant times, appellant was employed as a girls' basketball coach at Jefferson High School, which is one of the…