Oberlin College, an enclave of extreme liberalism whose leaders staged a years-long attack falsely alleging racism against the innocent owners of a nearby bakery, lost big-time in court.
WND reported last year when the school was shamed into pay the $36.5 million it owed the bakery owners for a years-long defamatory war against them.
The essence of the dispute was that Oberlin officials falsely claimed, over and over for years, that the owners of Gibson’s bakery, which is near the campus, were racist, when they were not.
Now the school is demanding its insurers pay back what it spent on the damages, as well as all of its legal costs.
The Chronicle-Telegram said the school is in Lorain County Common Pleas Court to force four companies to pay it back for the multi-million-dollar judgment, as well as its lawyers’ fees.
The companies named are Lexington Insurance Company of New York; United Educators Insurance of Bethesda, Maryland; Mount Hawley Insurance Company of Peoria, Illinois; and StarStone Specialty Insurance Company of Cincinnati.
The school claims the insurance companies didn’t “honor promises they made in their respective policies to protect the interests of Oberlin College” and its officials, including ex-dean of students Meredith Raimondo.
Oberlin should eat every penny of it and the guilty administrators, all degreed adults, should look for other work. Insurance shouldn’t cover kneejerk stupid committed in the name of woke.
The former Dean who instigated the jihad against the bakery, which was a long time vendor to the college, because it stopped several students shoplifting (not Amish or Danish so take a guess) was guilty of creating the issue. And her administration carried the ball for her through all the ensuing litigation and appeals. Just as surely as if she’d set the gym on fire. And now they want the insurers to pay for their collective arson!
Oberlin has a healthy endowment; hope the insurers help them whittle it down a lot while pursuing this bogus action, and then countersue for their expenses.