Posted on 10/02/2024 2:26:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has announced that the archdiocese has sued its longtime primary insurance company, Chubb, for “attempting to evade their legal and moral contractual obligation to settle covered claims” of sex abuse.
“It has always been our wish to expeditiously settle all meritorious claims,” Dolan said Oct. 1. “However, Chubb, for decades our primary insurance company, even though we have paid them over $2 billion in premium by today’s standards, is now attempting to evade their legal and moral contractual obligation to settle covered claims which would bring peace and healing to victim-survivors.”
In response, Chubb has put the onus on the Archdiocese of New York.
“The Archdiocese of New York tolerated, concealed, and covered up rampant child sexual abuse for decades, and despite having substantial financial resources, they still refuse to compensate their victims,” Chubb said in a company statement to Crux.
“Instead, the Archdiocese is attempting to shift responsibility for its actions onto insurers but won’t turn over information regarding what it knew about the abuse,” the statement continues. “Further, they have concealed their vast wealth and hidden assets. This is just another financial maneuver by the Archdiocese to deflect, hide and avoid responsibility.”
According to Dolan, that the archdiocese has settled more than 400 meritorious cases of past sexual abuse that are not covered by insurance through its Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program. The archdiocese has also settled another 123 cases in response to the state’s 2019 Child Victims Act.
Dolan said, however, that there remain about 1,400 cases of alleged abuse that date back to World War II. He emphasized that not all of the allegations are against priests. The two largest groups of complaints, he said, are against a former volunteer basketball coach and a former janitor.
(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...
If you cover it up and let it continue then that is gross negligence and insurance should not have to pay. The church got less than it deserved in my view.
Chubb eh? How appropriate
Please stop posting threads to me.
What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
Get over yourself.
Ebb tide, I am not posting anything to you.
Stop harassing me. We continue to read about non-Catholic abuse, which we should hear about, as well. No one was posting these news stories.
Yeah, the irony
One thing is clear, evil knows no boundaries. Predators go to where the prey is.
I'm a Catholic.
You're posting Catholic issue threads, (three today).
I'm just responding to your threads.
P.S. You're doing nothing but posting "news stories".
Do you know what a hypocrite is?
How Protestant Churches Hid Sexual Abuse
A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination
Abuse in the Protestant Church
Sexual abuse also a problem in European Protestant churches
Protestant abuse history has been swept under the carpet
Data Shed Light on Child Sexual Abuse by Protestant Clergy
Protestant Churches Grapple With Growing Sexual Abuse Crisis
Evangelicals ‘worse’ than Catholics on sexual abuse
Thousands of children sexually abused by German Protestant Church: study
German Protestant churches riddled with sexual abuse and cover-ups, report finds
How is posting the truth considered harassment?
As much as I despise insurance companies, the Catholic church has, indeed, tried to avoid compensating victims for DECADES. Truth be known, if they compensated ALL their victims, the Catholic church would probably go bankrupt, and they have no intention of doing that. And, yes, there is abuse in some protestant churches, too, but they are not concentrated under one umbrella, such as the Catholic church.
Ok. Does any of that make what went on in the Catholic church any less awful?
Nope.
Sin is sin.
one thing, though: attendance at Catholic churches is not compulsory on penalty of force; attendance at public schools is.
last time I heard, the priest abuse scandal was a fraction - a very small fraction - of the size of the scandal (still unadmitted) of sexual abuse by public school teachers and employees.
Sounds like an anti-catholic indurance company. Must print chic tracts too.
Insurance companies take your money but not your claims.
Should have self-ibsured and just paid out the money directly....which they should be doing now anyway. God provided this money for these very people!!!! Trust God. Spend it all. He will provide. They need more than anyone’s empty belly and the few baptisms will grow.
Lawsuits concerning abuse charge dioceses and parishes. Remedies for abuse are paid by dioceses and parishes.
The worldwide Church is not a party to these lawsuits so the "Catholic church" is not at risk of bankruptcy, only the dioceses and parishes.
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