City of Sharonville v. American Employers Insurance

{¶ 1} This case, involving the question of an insurer’s duty to defend law-enforcement officers in a civil rights action, is accepted upon a discretionary appeal.

{¶ 2} A federal action was filed against the city of Sharonville, Ohio and three of its current or former police officers.1 The officers were sued in their official capacity over an alleged ongoing conspiracy to cover up evidence relating to the *187murders of Marie Wright Schuholz and Starla Burns on May 8, 1981. The third amended complaint alleges that James Cramer, William Nuss, Mike Schappa, and other unknown officers (“John Doe(s)”)…