Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

For what it's worth

I've handled many similar cases and insurance companies always assert as a 
defense that a mom is contributorily negligent? -

I've sued au pair agencies, for example, for negligent hiring of dangerous 
nannies who then raped or abused the children they cared for - - and the 
insurance company lawyers always claim that the parent was negligent in some 
fashion

women who sue landlords, etc - who claim negligent security allowed the 
offender to get in the home also get sued for their own contributory 
negligence - as do women who sue for intentional tors and are drunk at the 
time - 

i'm not sure why this case was so surprising to people - it's quite common 
insurance defense strategy in my experience

wendy murphy