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. (Photo: Shutterstock)
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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