All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2007 // A Benton County, Ark., man has sued his former employer, claiming that he was fired for not attending a specific church as ordered by his boss.Clifford D. Randel filed the lawsuit in Benton County Circuit Court against...
Mar 30 2007 // A former campaign supporter of Alabamam Governor Bob Riley is suing him and other present and former state officials, accusing them of conspiring to drive him out of the insurance business.John W. Goff of Montgomery filed...
Mar 26 2007 // The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute...
Mar 9 2007 // The Diocese of San Bernardino will not use money parishioners have donated to build new churches to settle cases of clergy sexual abuse, Bishop Gerald R. Barnes said.The diocese is named in at least 17 pending lawsuits by...
Mar 6 2007 // The arrest of a prominent attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a Connecticut child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute...
Mar 2 2007 // Aon Construction Services Group has hired Richard S. Church as director, Loss Control, in Aon’s Irvine, Calif., office to provide loss control services to construction clients throughout California and the...
Mar 1 2007 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection hours before it was scheduled to go to trial in the first of more than 140 lawsuits accusing priests of sexual abuse.The filing...
Feb 8 2007 // A judge ordered the Roman Catholic Church to release insurance records and confidential files related to a notorious priest who had been convicted of molestation before being transferred to California.Superior Court Judge...
Jan 28 2007 // An insurance company for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont wants to investigate the church’s conduct in 27 cases of alleged child sex abuse by a former priest before paying the costs of litigation...
Jan 28 2007 // A judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass. to release thousands of pages of documents in a dispute between the church and seven of its insurance carriers over settlements with clergy sex abuse...
Jan 17 2007 // An insurance company for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington wants to investigate the church’s conduct in 27 cases of alleged child sex abuse by a former priest before paying the costs of litigation associated...
Jan 15 2007 // Police increased their patrols of churches across the city after fires broke out at two Baptist churches during the night and a break-in was discovered at a third — all within an hour.“We’re going to be...
Jan 12 2007 // A judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass. to release thousands of pages of documents in a dispute between the church and seven of its insurance carriers over settlements with clergy sex abuse...
Jan 8 2007 // Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., about $75 million under a reorganization plan. The plan represents the first bankruptcy in the nation filed by a...
Jan 7 2007 // Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., about $75 million under a reorganization plan proposed to end. The plan represents the first bankruptcy in the...
Dec 28 2006 // The Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn. has appealed a Superior Court judge’s ruling that thousands of pages of court files involving lawsuits against priests accused of sexual abuse be made public.The case could return to...
Dec 25 2006 // 8% The drop in premiums sought by the largest medical malpractice insurer in Maryland for next year in what would be its first rate reduction since at least 1992. The potential rate cut by Medical Mutual Liability...
Dec 20 2006 // Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland about $75 million under a reorganization plan proposed to end the first bankruptcy in the nation filed by a...
Dec 18 2006 // The insurance company for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has settled a claim by a man who says he was abused as a teenager by monks at a monastery in Blanco, Texas.The settlement agreement, which included a...
Dec 15 2006 // A judge is weighing whether to order the release of thousands of pages of Springfield (Mass.) Diocese documents in a dispute between the church and seven of its insurance carriers over settlements with clergy sex abuse...