Legal Opinion
McAuliffe v. Northern Insurance Co. of N.Y.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1995No. 94-3660PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
The issue in this insurance coverage dispute is whether a comprehensive and general liability insurance policy issued by Northern Insurance Company of New York (Northern) to Michael F. McAuliffe, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, covers a parishioner’s claims against McAuliffe and a priest McAuliffe supervised.
Melvin Lahr, a priest in McAuliffe’s Diocese, cultivated a sexual relationship with a *279married female parishioner Lahr was counseling on personal and spiritual matters. Contending the relationship was not consensual because Lahr took…
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