Oberlin College Settles With Insurers Over Gibson’s Bakery Payout
"We are pleased that Oberlin has reached a confidential resolution with our insurers. Our settlement with our two primary insurers — Lexington and UE — is significant."...
"We are pleased that Oberlin has reached a confidential resolution with our insurers. Our settlement with our two primary insurers — Lexington and UE — is significant."...
Four insurance companies have told the college to pound sand. Have you ever rooted for insurance companies ever? There's a first for everything....
The Gibsons have collected the over $36 million owed them. Sadly, David Gibson and "Grandpa" Allyn Gibson did not live to see this day. By stretching out the appeals Oberlin College waited them out, but the rest of the family survives. We wish the Gibson...
"It’s the sort of place Mom and Dad would stop in to grab junior a few missing items before college starts and fuel up on caffeine before a long drive home."...
"Legal Insurrection, Professor Jacobson, and your readers, gave the family the support and the courage that they needed ...
"I still haven’t seen a penny from the school."...
The bakery, which is on the verge of going out of business after almost 6 years of boycott by the Oberlin College community, will have to try to hang on in what could be months or years more of litigation....
"For delaying making the payment, Oberlin has added on $4 million in interest to the original judgment of $32 million, raising the cost to $36 million."...
Court filing: "Speedy relief is necessary for the preservation of their historic business and the lifetime work of generations of Gibsons."...
Under the plain wording of the Surety Bond, Zurich American appears to owe the Gibsons the money, and what happens then is between Zurich American and Oberlin College....
The bakery filed papers today asking the Ohio Supreme Court not to hear the college's appeal, and also asking the court also to hear the bakery's cross-appeal to restore the full punitive damage verdict....
An armada of groups have filed in support of Oberlin College, including the NAACP, Reporters Committee, Ohio Association of Civil Trial Lawyers, National Coalition Against Censorship, and Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Will any groups support the Gibsons?...
The Ohio Supreme Court has discretion whether to take the case. Of all the documents I've seen in this case, Oberlin College's Memorandum In Support of Jurisdiction may be the most tendentious, bordering on mendacious....
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