All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2011 // Federal officials vowed urgent support Sunday for a region devastated by the deadliest U.S. natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina, even as they acknowledged recovery would not be quick or easy.President Barack...
Apr 18 2011 // South Carolina fire officials say a tornado has collapsed a church with six people inside near the town of Bonneau. There was no immediate word on injuries.Melinda Wadford with the St. Stephen Fire Department auxiliary...
Apr 13 2011 // Auditors hired by the U.S. bishops to check child safety in America’s Roman Catholic dioceses each year warned in a new report this week of a drift away from parts of the church’s nine-year-old abuse prevention...
Mar 21 2011 // The Hanover Insurance Group added products for more than 125 classes of technology businesses. The coverages include a customized commercial package policy for mid-sized companies and two stand-alone errors and omissions...
Feb 23 2011 // A bill to extend the amount of time victims of sexual abuse have to file lawsuits against their attackers and others who may have covered up the abuse cleared a major hurdle in Virginia this week.The House Courts Committee...
Feb 18 2011 // A civil lawsuit filed this week against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia by a man who said two priests had sexually abused him as a child may signal a new era in church-abuse litigation in Pennsylvania.The Roman Catholic...
Feb 10 2011 // Two ironworkers died Tuesday morning after they fell from a fifth floor through an open elevator shaft at a church construction site where they were installing steel, New York City authorities said.Brett McEnroe, 49, of...
Jan 24 2011 // A judge has sentenced two men to life in prison after they pleaded guilty in a series of fires at churches in Smith County in East Texas last year. Judge Christi Kennedy ordered the prison terms for 20-year-old Jason...
Dec 21 2010 // For the past 10 years I have had the privilege of publishing an end-of-year article in Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance that discusses the 10 most significant insurance coverage decisions from the year gone by....
Dec 5 2010 // Aon Corp. reported that Andrew Appel, the firm’s chief operating officer, will be leaving the company at the end of the year. The company said there are no plans to fill the position upon Appel’s...
Nov 16 2010 // Ace USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, announced a new structure and senior leadership appointments. The structure consists of two zonal operations and a centralized complex risk unit for...
Aug 24 2010 // Church music director Carva White faced the music after launching an unholy plan to burn down his house of worship for an insurance payout.White played hymns for the Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in Leavenworth, Kan....
Jul 8 2010 // God only knows what will happen to churches and other nonprofit organizations that say they are struggling for survival because of the Gulf oil spill crisis.Months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and its well...
Jul 7 2010 // Farmers Group of Cos. has introduced an institutional business owners policy (iBOP) for institutions across America, which will be offered by Farmers agents in Texas.iBOP is designed to serve a spectrum of religious...
Jun 29 2010 // The Vatican is asking a federal judge to reject an attempt to question Pope Benedict XVI under oath in a Kentucky sex abuse lawsuit on the grounds that there has been no evidence of a link to church officials in Rome.The...
Jun 16 2010 // Two of three men charged with arson in a 2005 fire that destroyed a church pleaded guilty in Barrow County Superior Court in Georgia.Maurice Arnold and Bruce Edward Smith pleaded guilty. Prosecutors say the Rev. Quincy...
Jun 9 2010 // A Georgia preacher and his son accused of burning down their church to claim an insurance check are scheduled to appear in Barrow County Superior Court. Quincy Arnold of Lawrenceville, the 50-year-old pastor of the former...
May 17 2010 // A federal jury has awarded a Jonesboro, Ark., church $43.6 million in its lawsuit against an insurance group that wasn’t licensed or authorized to sell insurance.Old St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in West Memphis...
Apr 5 2010 // “Too dangerous.” “They’re scary.” “Those kids try too many tricks.” While many carriers use these descriptors for skateparks, I do not feel the same way. When I think of...
Mar 22 2010 // The last few years of the soft market have forced many carriers and agencies to get creative when it comes to bringing in additional premium. This has included launching new products for specialized risks. At first glance,...