Sheriff Gets Appeals Win on Insurance for Parkland Shooting Suits

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office only has to pay a $500,000 self-insured retention before its excess liability insurance coverage kicks in for lawsuits alleging negligent failure to secure a Parkland, Fla., high school during a 2018 shooting, a federal appeals court ruled.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School only was one “occurrence” under the policy issued by a Markel Corp. unit, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said in a Monday opinion.

The mass shooting, in which a former student killed 17 people, is the deadliest shooting at a high school in US history.

The ...