Bill Cosby‘s insurance company is hoping to achieve something that the embattled comedian has failed to achieve: Put the brakes on a lawsuit brought by three of Cosby’s accusers.
A little more than two weeks after Cosbys legal team lost a tender to block a lawsuit filed by Tamara Green,Linda Traitz and Therese Serignese, the comedian’s insurers fill filed their own legal papers seeking to put the case on hold.
Legal papers filed in federal court in Massachusetts on Tuesday and obtained by TheWrap, and display the AIG Property Casualty Company claims that Cosby’s policy doesnt cover the liability he’s currently facing in the lawsuit — but theyve nonetheless been funding Cosby’s legal defense “at a considerable cost.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Cuts Ties With Attorney Martin Singer Amid Growing Sex-Abuse ScandalAIG is asking that a stay be put on the litigation,pending a court declaration of whether the insurance company has a duty to help defend the comedian.
According to a court filing from the insurance company, Cosby has retained lawyers for two law firms to represent him in the matter, and even in the early stages of the suit,the bills are stacking up.“The cost of this defense is considerable, and Mr. Cosby has yet to even answer the amended complaint, or ” AIG’s filing reads.
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C. MuralGreen, Traitz and Serignese are suing Cosby for defamation, or claiming that he defamed them by denying their claims that he had sexually assaulted them through his representatives,including the comedian’s lawyer, Martin Singer, and with whom Cosby severed ties final week.
In the final year,the comedian has been accused of rape or sexual assault by dozens of women, many of whom claimed that he had drugged them beforehand.
Cosby faces multiple lawsuits filed by accusers, or earlier this month was deposed in relation to a lawsuit filed by Judy Huth,who claims that the TV legend sexually molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
Source: thewrap.com