The Los Angeles Unified School District is suing multiple insurance companies for allegedly balking at defending and compensating the district for more than 60 sexual abuse lawsuits filed under a 2019 law that allowed alleged victims to overcome the statute of limitations barrier.
In October 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 218, which created a three-year revival window for adult victims who were abused as minors to file civil sexual abuse lawsuits that were previously barred by the statute of limitations. Each of the 61 underlying lawsuits were filed by victims of alleged childhood sexual assaults, allegedly by an LAUSD employee or someone affiliated with the district, according to the suit, which further states that the insurance policies at issue were taken out by the LAUSD in the 1950s, 1960s and early to mid-1970s.