Insurer refuses to reimburse settlements over church sex abuse
When insurers deny coverage, they usually cite a range of reasons, from church officials failing to provide adequate paperwork to having insufficient evidence of old policies. But most cases hinge on whether church leaders “expected or intended” the abuse to happen, since the church’s history of shuffling known abusers from parish to parish created a trail of victims.
“If you boil their argument down, they’re essentially saying that the bishops back then knew about this risk,” said Mike Finnegan, a Minnesota lawyer who has handled numerous clergy sex abuse cases, “and their insurance policies were only covering risk they didn’t know about.”
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