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UK Singer Church Settles in Murdoch Hacking Case
Feb 28 2012 // Charlotte Church, who testified about being hounded by Rupert Murdoch’s journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, has received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) in a settlement from News International. Despite her...
Trial Date Set for Insurance Fraud with Ties to Frankel, Vatican
Feb 27 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Pennsylvania Christian College Sues Over Birth Control Regs
Feb 22 2012 // A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying regulations that require employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are “directly at...
Massachusetts Cardinal Pushes for Contraception Solution
Feb 20 2012 // Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is continuing to push to resolve a dispute between the Obama administration and the Catholic church about covering contraception in health care plans. In a blog post Friday,...
First ‘Epic’ Vermont Flood Brought Change; Will Irene?
Feb 8 2012 // Twice in less than a century, Waterbury’s 1827 Congregational Church, at the crest of a small rise on Main Street, has played a critical role in helping the community escape the ravages of the rising Winooski River...
Kentucky’s Churchill Downs, Jockeys Reach Insurance Pact
Feb 6 2012 // Churchill Downs Inc. and the Jockeys’ Guild have reached an agreement to subsidize riders’ health insurance, life insurance and disability benefits for members of the Guild who ride in the United States. Terms...
Kentucky’s Churchill Downs, Jockeys’ Guild Reach Insurance Agreement
Jan 25 2012 // Churchill Downs Inc. and the Jockeys’ Guild have reached an agreement to subsidize riders’ health insurance, life insurance and disability benefits for members of the Guild who ride in the United States. Terms...
Declarations
Jan 23 2012 // Kentucky Buggie “If we would go ahead and pay the fine, I think we would be working against our own religious beliefs. We will not pay the court to prosecute us for our religious beliefs.” —Jacob Gingerich,...
Supreme Court Rules Religious Ministers Not Covered by Job Bias Laws
Jan 12 2012 // Religious groups and churches may hire and fire their leaders without being subject to laws against discrimination in employment, the U.S. Supreme Court said this week in a unanimous landmark ruling. For the first time,...
Penn.-based Glatfelter Acquires Faith-Based and Senior Living Programs
Jan 4 2012 // Glatfelter Program Managers, a program business division of Glatfelter Insurance Group in York, Penn., acquired senior living and religious organizations programs from Bunker Hill Underwriters Agency in Houston. The senior...
Church Mutual Offers New Opportunities for Senior Living Brokers
Dec 13 2011 // The broker/specialty markets division at Church Mutual Insurance Co. has expanded opportunities for brokers and agents with experience in the senior living market. Specifically, the insurer is looking to add producers in...
Does the Legacy of the Great War Still Haunt Europe?
Nov 10 2011 // As Americans and much of the rest of the world pause to honor the men and women who have served their country, one is reminded of the significance of the date – November 11. 93 years ago the guns of World War I fell...
UK Court Rules Catholic Church Liable for Priest Wrongs
Nov 9 2011 // A British court has ruled that Roman Catholic priests are equivalent to employees, a decision that could pave the way for victims of sexual abuse to win damages from the church. Tuesday’s ruling involved a...
State Farm to Stop Insuring Churches in Florida
Oct 4 2011 // Florida churches are having to seek insurance elsewhere after one of the state’s provider of coverage to houses of worship has decided to leave the market. State Farm Florida recently announced it will exit the...
Court Agrees with Dismissal of Abuse Suit Versus Pittsburgh Diocese
Oct 3 2011 // The Superior Court has sided with a judge who dismissed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh filed by the family of a man who committed suicide last year after the diocese stopped paying for his...
Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death
Oct 3 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...
Insurer Says Exclusion Bars Payment in Nebraska Pastor’s Death
Sep 21 2011 // An insurance company specializing in policies for churches is asking a federal court to absolve it from paying a claim by the widow of a central Nebraska pastor who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house owned by the...
Churchill Downs Ending Payments for Jockeys’ Off-Track Injuries
Sep 19 2011 // Churchill Downs Inc. plans to stop paying the trade association representing jockeys to fund riders’ off-track needs, such as benefits or health insurance coverage that’s not racing related. Churchill...
Judge Orders Insurers to Pay in Delaware Diocese Bankruptcy
Sep 12 2011 // A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday ordered insurance companies to pay their share of a settlement with priest sex abuse victims that is the foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington’s reorganization plan,...
Insurers in Delaware Diocese Bankruptcy Balk at $15 Million Payout
Sep 8 2011 // A dispute over insurance payments is threatening to blow up the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington’s bankruptcy reorganization plan. Under the plan, the diocese, its parishes and affiliated entities, would be released...
