All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2005 // More than 600 U.S. Catholic diocesan priests and deacons were accused in 2004 of sexual abuse of minors, with the majority of allegations of abuse occurring between 1970 and 1974. Half of these clergy had been subject of...
Feb 7 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi helped deliver the first checks from a $20 million settlement of a class action lawsuit to resolve insurance claims stemming from the Armenian Genocide nearly 90 years ago....
Jan 31 2005 // The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles withheld “critical evidence” that could help insurance carriers assess the validity and worth of more than 500 sexual abuse claims, the insurers allege.In a federal...
Jan 27 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on Wednesday helped deliver the first checks from a $20 million settlement of a class action lawsuit to resolve insurance claims stemming from the Armenian Genocide nearly...
Jan 4 2005 // A Stockton insurance agent allegedly working with a revoked license was arraigned Jan. 4 in San Joaquin County Court on 111 felony counts following an eight-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
Dec 31 2004 // Just as the disaster that struck 12 countries around the Indian Ocean was unprecedented, so too has been the response from around the world to the calls for help.Private citizens, companies and the World Bank have already...
Dec 30 2004 // As the scope of the disaster that struck 11 countries in the Indian Ocean continues to emerge, the world’s nations are beginning to gear up for what will undoubtedly be the largest collective relief effort ever...
Nov 29 2004 // Less than two weeks before the Catholic Diocese of Spokane is due to file for bankruptcy protection, its insurance carriers are suing to avoid paying victims’ sexual-abuse claims.The American Casualty Co., the...
Oct 27 2004 // Harvey R. Pierce, chairman and chief executive officer of the American Family Insurance Group was elected chairman of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) at its annual meeting today.Pierce began his...
Sep 29 2004 // Insurance companies being sued by the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese are seeking a delay in the trial until the state Supreme Court rules whether the diocese must pay $1 million in punitive damages for not properly...
Sep 20 2004 // The Archdiocese of Boston has received at least 140 new reports of sexual abuse by priests, but said it will not negotiate the claims until it resolves disputes with its insurers over payment of last year’s $85...
Aug 24 2004 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo said it will pay $1.19 million to settle lawsuits filed by 23 people who said they were sexually abused by priests.The diocese is paying the settlements with money from an insurance...
Aug 17 2004 // Monument LLC, a California-based design, implementation and management firm of self-insured workers’ compensation groups, announced that it has formed Cornerstone Comp Inc., a new, self-funded California-based...
Aug 13 2004 // by Susan KimBy Friday morning, two million residents and visitors had evacuated Florida as Hurricane Charley edged its 110-mph winds closer to the state’s west coast. The storm could send parts of Tampa and its...
Jul 30 2004 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has filed an administrative complaint against a well-known Montgomery-based insurance company and its president, accusing the Goff Group and John W. Goff of wrongdoing involving...
Jul 27 2004 // Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Dorothy Faye Mortimer, 61, of Waldorf, Maryland.In a forty-four (44) count criminal indictment filed in the...
Jul 19 2004 // The torching of financier Martin Frankel’s $3 million mansion in Greenwich, Conn., was meant to destroy evidence of an insurance scam that cost Mississippi and other states millions, police said. But not everything...
May 17 2004 // Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co., accused by the Archdiocese of Boston of failing to cover payments to priest abuse victims, has filed a counter suit, claiming it should not have to cover damages from crimes. The Kemper...
Mar 22 2004 // Sex abuse victims in New Jersey would be able to seek damages from churches and other nonprofit organizations under terms of a bill approved by a state Senate committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee also added an...
Mar 8 2004 // The Archdiocese of Boston is suing one of its insurers, accusing the company of fraud and breach of contract for failing to cover settlement payments to victims of clergy abuse.Last September, after the archdiocese agreed...