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Sep 15 2025 // Leaders of a Georgia-based church with congregations in five states have been charged by federal prosecutors with swindling millions of dollars in veterans benefits from parishioners serving in the military.An indictment...
Sep 10 2025 // Insurers that have not indicated they will pay claims from sexual abuse survivors currently have no standing to contest certain claims as they are being considered, a federal bankruptcy judge recently ruled in a case...
Aug 8 2025 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey has voluntarily withdrawn its lawsuit against four liability insurers over coverage for sexual abuse claims brought against the diocese under the New Jersey Child Victims...
Oct 6 2025 // The US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man...
Oct 2 2025 // A year after seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese is struggling to cover about $1.5 million and counting in related legal bills.Under federal law, an...
Jun 19 2025 // New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had tried for years to block such proceedings recently...
Aug 1 2025 // The Catholic Diocese of Rochester, its insurers, and survivors of clergy sexual abuse have agreed on a $246 million fund to pay abuse claims as part of the diocese’s Chapter 11 plan to emerge from bankruptcy.The plan...
Aug 28 2025 // The Catholic Diocese of Syracuse reports that the federal judge overseeing its bankruptcy proceedings has indicated she will approve the latest reorganization plan with a $176 million fund to pay sexual abuse claimants.The...
May 1 2025 // Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse allegations.The high...
Sep 8 2025 // A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday signed off on a $246 million fund to pay abuse claims as part of the Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy.Having witnessed six...
Jan 28 2025 // New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera and his wife are accused in a lawsuit of failing to protect a young girl who was sexually abused by an older child during a summer camp trip sponsored by their church.In a lawsuit...
Apr 8 2025 // A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a professor and minister who lost her bid to become the first woman to serve as senior pastor of New York City’s prominent Abyssinian Baptist...
Apr 30 2025 // Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has been found to have violated Maryland’s employment anti-discrimination law when it discriminated against an employee because of his sexual orientation.U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin...
Feb 13 2025 // The Catholic Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey has sued its liability insurers over their alleged “failure and refusal” to agree upon a cost-sharing formula to deal with hundreds of sexual abuse claims brought...
May 9 2025 // The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for years.It’s not...
May 22 2025 // A federal bankruptcy judge in Connecticut has approved a plan involving the Catholic Diocese of Norwich that includes a $31 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse by clergy.The plan seeks to provide recovery to...
May 22 2025 // A man who admitted in federal court to setting the fire that destroyed an eastern Missouri church has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison and ordered to pay the church nearly $7 million.The sentence for...
Mar 31 2025 // A notorious public adjuster, already in prison for scamming Louisiana and Texas residents out of insurance proceeds, last week pleaded guilty to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church out of...
Mar 6 2025 // AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a” (Excellent) of Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. The outlook assigned to these Credit...
Feb 18 2025 // The bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut and advocates for survivors of clergy sex abuse have reached an agreement on a $31 million compensation fund.The plan, which is subject to the approval of the...