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Gymnasts to Texas Lawmakers: Allow Sex Abuse Victims to Sue Institutions
May 16 2019 // Former U.S. national team gymnasts backing a Texas bill that would allow victims of sexual abuse more time to sue in civil court on Monday urged the state’s lawmakers to restore a key provision allowing those...
Minnesota Clergy Abuse Victims to Sue Vatican, Seek Abusers’ Names
May 15 2019 // Five men who say they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when they were minors are planning to sue the Vatican and are demanding the names of thousands of predator priests they claim have been kept secret by...
Advocates’ Suit No Longer Says Mormon Church Swayed Medical Pot Changes
May 8 2019 // Marijuana advocates dropped legal claims that Utah lawmakers conspired with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to make sweeping changes to a voter-approved ballot initiative legalizing medical pot. Their...
California to Review Sex-Abuse Responses of 12 Dioceses
May 6 2019 // The California attorney general’s office will review how all 12 Roman Catholic dioceses in the state handled allegations of child sexual abuse that have resulted in payouts of hundreds of millions of dollars to...
California Man Vows to Proceed with California Clergy Abuse Suit
May 1 2019 // A man who says he was molested by his parish priest decades ago vows to proceed with a lawsuit targeting all Catholic bishops in California after a judge dismissed part of the suit. The so-called “nuisance”...
Fred C. Church Insurance Names Lucas Director of Business Development
May 1 2019 // Fred C. Church Insurance, a Lowell, Mass.-based independent insurance agency, has named George H. Lucas as director of Business Development. In this role, Lucas will be responsible for the management and facilitation of...
Another Fire Breaks Out at Pennsylvania Church Burned by Arson Blaze
Apr 26 2019 // A small fire has been extinguished at a Pennsylvania church that was severely damaged earlier this week by another blaze that authorities say was deliberately set. The latest fire at Iglesia Pentecostal de Bethlehem was...
Suspect in Multiple Louisiana Church Fires Faces Hate Crime Charges
Apr 16 2019 // The white man suspected in the burning of three African American churches in Louisiana will remain in jail, denied bond Monday by a judge, as state prosecutors added new charges declaring the arsons a hate...
Louisiana Diocese Releases List of Priests Accused of Sex Abuse
Apr 15 2019 // The U.S. Catholic diocese where the first widely reported case of clergy sex abuse became public in the 1980s released a list Friday of 33 priests and four deacons credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor or vulnerable...
Reuters: J&J Refocused Baby Powder Marketing on Minority, Overweight Women
Apr 10 2019 // Pressure was mounting on Johnson & Johnson and its signature Baby Powder. In 2006, an arm of the World Health Organization began classifying cosmetic talc such as Baby Powder as “possibly carcinogenic” when...
Critics Say North Dakota Dioceses Too Slow in Naming Problem Priests
Mar 15 2019 // North Dakota’s Roman Catholic dioceses are mulling whether and when to release information about priests accused of sexual abuse, even as critics say they are moving too slowly following explosive revelations in...
8 Kids Sent to Hospitals After Tennessee Church Bus Overturns
Mar 12 2019 // Police in Tennessee say eight children were taken to hospitals for evaluation after their church bus overturned on a highway during heavy rains. News outlets report the bus with a driver and 11 passengers was returning...
Trump Visits Alabama to Survey Damage from Powerful Tornado
Mar 11 2019 // Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting...
Gun Retailer Sued by Families of Texas Church Shooting Victims
Mar 4 2019 // Family members of victims of a Texas church shooting are suing a sporting goods chain that sold the weapons used in the 2017 massacre. The lawsuit filed in state district court in San Antonio alleges Academy Sports &...
Police: 5 Hurt in Indiana Church Bus Crash; Driver Arrested, Charged with DWI
Feb 28 2019 // Authorities say an 82-year-old church bus driver is charged with driving while intoxicated after five people were injured when a bus returning from a Chicago Bulls game went off the road in northwestern Indiana. Indiana...
Iowa Diocese: 28 Priests Accused of Abusing Minors Identified
Feb 28 2019 // At least 28 priests are credibly accused of having sexually abused more than 100 boys and girls while working for a Roman Catholic diocese in Iowa, church officials announced. The Diocese of Sioux City identified those 28...
4 Promoted in Leadership Roles at Wisconsin’s Church Mutual
Feb 4 2019 // Merrill, Wisconsin-based Church Mutual Insurance Co. has promoted four individuals into new leadership roles. Janet Selnes is now vice president – broker distribution. Selnes has a proven track record of leadership...
What It Takes to Successfully Resolve Insurance Coverage and Claims Disputes
Feb 4 2019 // While Understanding Why Some Claims Are Denied In the first column of this series, I provided an overview of what it takes to successfully resolve coverage and claims disputes without litigation. In the coming months, we...
Federal Safety Investigators Sidelined by Shutdown Begin Heading to Crash Scenes
Feb 1 2019 // It’s been four weeks since a van carrying children from a Louisiana church to Disney World in Florida collided with a swerving tractor-trailer, igniting diesel fuel and killing seven people in a fiery crash. Now,...
Louisiana Diocese Will Name Clergy Accused of Abuse
Jan 31 2019 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., says it will publicly identify all of its clergy credibly accused of child abuse. Bishop Michael Gerard Duca says on the diocese website that releasing the list of names on...
