An appellate court in Illinois has affirmed a trial court decision granting summary judgment to a group of insurers who claimed that they had no duty to defend the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus against claims for sexual abuse brought by students at a Jesuit high school. A series of John Doe plaintiffs alleged that they had been abused by a former priest and member of the Jesuits who had been a teacher and scholastic adviser at Loyola Academy. The suits generally claimed negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and fraud against the Jesuits. The complaints alleged that the Jesuits either knew or should have known of the priest’s abuse because the Jesuits were first...