| Quality Inn
Is Sued For Hosting Sex Traffic But Starr
Indemnity Denies So May 18 Trial Backup
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 23 – Choice Hotels is
the subject of a sex
trafficking lawsuit, and also
now a lawsuit with insurer
Starr Indemnity &
Liability Company.
A plaintiff named
B.H. alleges that for three
weeks in 2013 she was held
captive by sex traffickers at
the Maniben Quality Inn in
Columbia, South Carolina and
repeatedly raped by
strangers.
On December 1,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge P. Kevin Castel held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
At issue is
whether B.H. screams were loud
enough for hotel staff to have
heard.
Starr in its
policies has an exclusion for
Abuse or Molestation and so
would not agree to participate
in Choice Hotels' defense of
indemnity. So it sued for
clarity.
On March 23,
Judge Castel the day after
guilty verdicts in his
Honduras jury trial held
another proceeding. The
disputes on language
continued, with Judge Castel
expressing frustration. He set
the matter down for trial on
May 18 as first back-up to US
v. Terry Former, 19-cr-781
(PKC). Inner City Press will
aim to report on either or
both of them.
This case is
Starr Indemnity &
Liability Company v. Choice
Hotels International, Inc.,
20-cv-3172 (Castel)
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