Missouri Public Entity Risk Management Funds (MOPERM) v. S.M., K.W., f/k/a C.H., Jane Poe, K.S., and L.M.
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the CourtLisa White Hardwick, Judge
S.M., K.W., . C.A., K.S., and L.M. (“Claimants”) 1 ' appeal from the circuit court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Missouri Public Entity Risk Management Fund (“MOPERM”). The court determined that a Lincoln County Sheriffs Department lieutenant who sexually abused Claimants while he'was acting as a drug court' tracker' is not cbvered under MOPERM’s memorandum of coverage; therefore, MOPERM has no duty to defend or indemnify him in Claimants’ federal civil rights lawsuit against him. On appeal, Claimants contend that MO-PERM’s memorandum of coverage is ambiguous and, as such,…
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