Basketball coach Bob Knight not entitled to collect insurance

It has been said that basketball coach at Texas Tech Bob Knight is not entitled to collect insurance: Bob Knight will not be able to collect insurance to recoup money that he paid to settle a lawsuit which stemmed from his 1999 confrontation with the former assistant at Indiana University, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday, Aug. 8th.

Bobby Knight obviously argued this point that the Indiana Insurance Co wrongly denied him liability coverage for the suit; this was filed by Ron Felling over his firing by Knight. Bob Knight in the end settled with Felling back in 2002 in where he paid him $25,000 plus admitting that he had pushed Felling in anger after an overheard phone conversation in which Felling criticized Knight’s coaching and behaviour.

Knight went on to argue that he was covered under the home owners policy and that in fact the insurer breached its duty to investigate this incident further and defend him from Mr Felling’s lawsuit. It was ruled last year that Bob Knight’s insurance policy did exclude coverage for bodily harm that is intended or expected.
The Court of Appeals said that the policy did not cover the incident for the simple fact that it was not a workplace and there was no bodily harm (injury).

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