Most Popular Church Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Church Topic Page over the last year.
#1 How a Perfect Storm Sent Church Insurance Rates Skyrocketing
Jul 25 2024 // The Rev. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news. Church Mutual, the church’s insurance company, had dropped...
#2 Judge Blocks Chubb Exit From New York Diocese’s Thousands of Child Sex Abuse Suits
Dec 19 2023 // A New York judge has ruled that the “plain language” of Chubb Insurance policies dictates that the insurer must cover the Archdiocese of New York parishes and schools as they contend with thousands of sex abuse...
#3 Chubb Wins Latest Battle With New York Diocese in Bid to Avoid Sex Abuse Claims
Apr 24 2024 // A New York state appeals court has reinstated Chubb insurance companies’ bid for judgments declaring that they are not obligated to cover thousands of sex abuse lawsuits brought against the Archdiocese of New York...
#4 AM Best Assigns Issue Credit Rating to Church Mutual’s Surplus Notes
Aug 26 2024 // AM Best said it has assigned and placed under review with negative implications a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of bbb+ (Good) to the $40 million, 9.5% surplus notes due 2044 issued by Church Mutual Insurance Company,...
#5 Houses of Worship and the State of Insurance
Aug 19 2024 // A recent Insurance Journal article decried the state of insurance for churches and it’s mostly about their property insurance issues and we all know that the property insurance space has struggled in recent years,...
#6 Bankruptcy Court Approves Camden Diocese’s $87.5M Plan for Abuse Victims
Mar 18 2024 // Almost three-and-one-half years after the Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey filed for bankruptcy citing financial effects from the pandemic and sexual abuse settlements, its Chapter 11 reorganization plan has been...
#7 Student from China Sentenced in Arson of Alabama Church in 2021
Apr 1 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman in the U.S. on a student visa has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for setting fire to First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2021, federal prosecutors said...
#8 People Moves: Church Mutual Promotes Ogilvie to CEO; World Insurance Associates Hires Klien as EVP; Amwins Appoints Armijo President of Amwins Underwriting
Jan 3 2024 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. promoted Alan S. Ogilvie from president to president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2024. Ogilvie assumed the role from Rich Poirier, who has retired after 12 years of...
#9 70-Year-Old Man Settles With Catholic Diocese Over Sex Abuse Suffered at Age 8
Oct 16 2023 // A 70-year-old man who recently reached a settlement with a Roman Catholic diocese in Massachusetts over sexual abuse he suffered at age 8 said Wednesday he is speaking out because “my voice was taken away from me for...
#10 Bankruptcy Judge Denies Survivors’ ‘Hopeless’ Bid to Sue Rockville Diocese Insurers
Oct 5 2023 // The judge overseeing the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre bankruptcy has denied a request by the committee representing sexual abuse claimants for permission to sue the church’s insurers, calling the filing a...
#11 Prominent Black Church in New York Sued by Yale Professor for Gender Bias
Jan 9 2024 // A Yale professor has filed a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against a prominent Harlem church after it did not hire her for its senior pastor job. The suit brought by Eboni Marshall Turman accuses Abyssinian Baptist...
#12 Recordings Show How Mormon Church Protects Itself From Child Sex Abuse Claims
Dec 5 2023 // Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed with her while he...
#13 Norwich Catholic Diocese Files Chapter 11 Plan With $30M Fund for Survivors
Sep 10 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich and its parishes, along with its insurer Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America, have filed a joint Chapter 11 plan of reorganization as the diocese seeks to emerge from...
#14 People Moves: Church Mutual Names Ogilvie Chief Executive Officer
Jan 4 2024 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, headquartered in Merrill, Wis., promoted Alan S. Ogilvie from president to president and chief executive officer. Ogilvie assumed the role from Rich Poirier, who retired after 12 years at...
#15 Police Investigate How Texas Church Shooter Obtained Rifle Despite Mental Illness
Feb 15 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a...
#16 Brooklyn Diocese Settles with New York AG for Mishandling Clergy Sex Abuse Cases
Apr 18 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to address years of reported mismanaging clergy sexual abuse cases. According to the Office of the Attorney...
#17 No Injuries Reported After Steeple of Historic Connecticut Church Collapses
Jan 30 2024 // NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — An historic Connecticut church’s soaring steeple and roof collapsed on Thursday, leaving a gaping hole in the top of the building and the front reduced to a heap of rubble. No deaths or...
#18 Fifth Circuit Upholds $502K Award for Louisiana Church in Hurricane Laura Damage Suit
Jan 25 2024 // The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a 2022 decision against Church Mutual Insurance Co. in favor of Sugartown United Pentecostal Church in Dry Creek, Louisiana, which sits about 50...
#19 Maine’s Ending Limits on Child Sex Abuse Suits Is Unconstitutional, Church Tells Court
Nov 13 2023 // A lawyer for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland told supreme court justices Thursday that Maine’s elimination of time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits is unconstitutional and imposes new liabilities, a...
#20 Fire Severely Damages Historic First Dallas Baptist Church Sanctuary
Jul 22 2024 // A fire all but destroyed the historic church sanctuary at First Baptist Dallas, sending smoke billowing over the city but causing no deaths or injuries, Dallas firefighters said. The fire in the Texas Historic Landmark, a...
