New Jersey and the state Department of Education are not able to receive insurance coverage for their contribution to a $5 million settlement over claims stemming from the Newark schoolyard murders of 2007, the state Appellate Division has ruled.
A unanimous two-judge panel of the court, ruling June 10 in State of New Jersey v. Star Insurance, denied arguments from the state that it should receive coverage for the $3 million it provided toward settling a lawsuit over a shooting at the Mount Vernon School playground, in which three people were killed and one was injured.
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