Insurers Win Appeals |In 6th & 4th Circuits

(CN) – Two insurance companies won victories in separate federal appeals courts, where they challenged their liability in cases of professional misconduct. The **6th Circuit ruled that **Scottsdale Insurance Co. is not required to cover a mental-health therapist who purportedly had a sexual liaison with a client, because the relationship was not within the therapist’s scope of employment. See Scottsdale v. Flowers.     The **4th Circuit ruled in favor of General Star National Insurance in the company’s dispute with Horace Mann Insurace over which insurer was liable for a $1 million settlement between school officials and a high-school student who claimed to have been sexually abused by a teacher. See Horace Mann v. General Star.