A federal district court in Oklahoma has ruled that a bank's insurance carrier did not have to defend or indemnify the bank in a lawsuit brought by a customer who was taken hostage by a bank robber and thereafter shot by law enforcement officers.
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A federal district court in Oklahoma has ruled that a bank's insurance carrier did not have to defend or indemnify the bank in a lawsuit brought by a customer who was taken hostage by a bank robber and thereafter shot by law enforcement officers.
The robbery
In 2016, an armed robber entered Bank of Eufaula, in Eufaula, Okla., while Julie Huff was there. He shot and killed the bank's president, and he shot a teller who resisted his demand for money. The robber then took Huff hostage at gunpoint, ordered her to drive him in a stolen vehicle, and forced her to take him several miles as he sat in the passenger seat with a gun pointed at her.
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