9th Circuit Reverses Ruling In Patients’ Suit Seeking To Enforce $2.4M Judgment

( April 8, 2026, 9:31 AM EDT) -- SPOKANE, Wash. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals partly reversed a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a health care organizations management liability insurer in a lawsuit seeking to enforce an underlying $2.4 million consent judgment against its inpatient substance abuse treatment facility insured, holding that the policy may provide partial coverage for a complaint even if the complaint contains some excluded sexual abuse claims....