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People Moves: Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Promotes McCoy to Powers Personal Lines Manager; Church Mutual Promotes Two Assistant VPs
Feb 24 2023 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance Promotes McCoy to Personal Lines Manager at Powers Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois,...
Judge Upholds Maine Law Opposed by Diocese Allowing Older Sex Abuse Suits
Feb 17 2023 // AUGUSTA, Maine — A state judge on Tuesday upheld a Maine law that eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse, allowing survivors to pursue lawsuits for sex crimes that happened decades ago. An attorney...
Clergy Sex Abuse Suits Could Bankrupt Diocese in California
Feb 14 2023 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering” legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging priests and others sexually abused...
Massachusetts Diocese Releases Clergy Abuse Report With No Names
Feb 10 2023 // A Roman Catholic Diocese that covers central Massachusetts has published a new report about clergy sexual abuse of minors between 1950 and 2022, but unlike similar reports released by many other dioceses, the report did...
People Moves: Church Mutual Names New President; UFG Appoints Stephenson as New COO
Jan 19 2023 // Church Mutual Names New President Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. 1, has promoted Alan S. Ogilvie to president of the company. Rich Poirier, current president and CEO, will retain his CEO responsibilities. Ogilvie...
Texas Plane Crash Kills 4 Members of Tennessee Church
Jan 19 2023 // YOAKUM, Texas (AP) – A small plane crashed Tuesday while approaching a Texas airport, killing four members of a Tennessee church and leaving the lead pastor injured, authorities and the church said. The single-engine...
Catholic Diocese Challenges Maine Law Allowing Older Sex Abuse Claims
Jan 10 2023 // PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is challenging a Maine law that eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse, allowing a wave of new lawsuits. A motion in the first of the...
People Moves: Risk Strategies Names Lamond Commercial Leader; Fred C. Church Welcomes Daley to Education Team
Jan 6 2023 // Risk Strategies Names Lamond as Commercial Lines Leader, New England Region Boston-based Risk Strategies has appointed Doran Lamond as commercial lines leader for the New England region. In this new role, Lamond will be...
Boy Scouts, Catholic Dioceses Find Haven From Sex Abuse Suits in Bankruptcy
Jan 3 2023 // Lawmakers around the United States have tried to grant justice to victims of decades-old incidents of child sexual abuse by giving them extra time to file lawsuits. Now some of the defendants in these cases, including...
Lawsuits Alleging Maine Church Knew About Sex Abuse Now Number 14
Dec 23 2022 // Two more people have filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a Roman Catholic clergy member and a nun — both deceased — raising the number to over a dozen since Maine loosened the statute of limitations last year. One...
Church Officials Clear Chicago Priest of Abuse Claim
Dec 14 2022 // CHICAGO (AP) – A prominent Roman Catholic priest known for his activism has been reinstated as leader of his Chicago parish after being cleared by church officials of allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades...
Texas Church Bus Crash Injures 16, Including 13 Children
Dec 13 2022 // HOUSTON (AP) – Sixteen people, including 13 children, were injured on Sunday after a small church bus overturned near a Houston area apartment, according to authorities. The bus, belonging to a Baptist church, rolled...
Maine Catholic Church Hit With More Sex Abuse Claims Under Revised Law
Dec 12 2022 // Four people in Maine have filed lawsuits with claims that they were sexually abused by Catholic priests as children. Three men sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on Thursday in Cumberland County Superior Court....
Carbon Monoxide Leak at Chicago Church Sends 12 to Hospitals
Dec 6 2022 // CHICAGO (AP) – Twelve people were hospitalized after a carbon monoxide leak at a church on Chicago’s South Side, fire officials said. The Chicago Fire Department said that just after 1 p.m. it was called to the New...
Rochester Diocese $55M Sex Abuse Settlement Does Not Include Insurance Amount
Nov 8 2022 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester will pay $55 million to survivors of sexual abuse committed by clergy members under a settlement announced by Rochester Bishop Salvatore Matano last week. The $55 million from the...
Buffalo Diocese Agrees to Clergy Oversight Plan as Part of Abuse Settlement With State
Oct 27 2022 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo has agreed to strengthen its oversight of clergy accused of sexual misconduct to settle a lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general alleging the church mishandled abuse...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 19 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled recently that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a...
Indiana Court Sides With Catholic Diocese in Teacher Dismissal
Sep 6 2022 // The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in...
Massachusetts Court Denies Charitable Immunity, Allows Abuse Case Against Diocese
Aug 1 2022 // A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who alleges he was sexually abused as a child in the 1960s by a now-deceased Roman Catholic bishop and other clergy can proceed, the highest court in Massachusetts said in a decision...
Three Charged in Arson of Historic West Virginia Church
Jul 15 2022 // Three people have been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic church in West Virginia, state police said. Braxton Allan Miller, 18, of Charleston; James Dean Elmore, 19, of Beckley; and a juvenile boy...
