Panel: Coach’s $1.77M Attorney Fee Award In Suit Over Prayer Is Barred From Coverage

(August 29, 2024, 8:25 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washinton appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of an insurer in a school district insured’s breach of contract lawsuit seeking indemnification for the $1.77 million attorney fee award it paid a high school football coach after a divided U.S. Supreme Court concluded that it erred when it removed the coach from his job for praying on the field after games because such expressions are constitutionally protected, finding that the award is excluded from coverage....