MADISON, Wis. AP – A couple’s homeowner’s policy does not cover alleged negligence by the wife for not preventing her husband from sexually abusing a child, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday.
The unnamed child and the child’s mother sued the woman and her insurance companies. They claimed the woman, Deborah Wangard, was negligent because she did not prevent her husband, Steven Wangard, from sexually abusing the child between 2000 and 2003 in his two Elm Grove homes. The child was between 5 and 8 at the time.
