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Judge Sets March Hearing on Boy Scouts Bankruptcy After Claimant Group Signs On
Feb 14 2022 // The judge presiding over the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has delayed the start of a trial to determine whether the BSA’s reorganization plan should be confirmed after an agreement with the official committee...
Catholic Church Sex Abuse Panel in Portugal Receives 200 Allegations in First Month
Feb 11 2022 // A lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Thursday that during its first month of work it received allegations from 214 people. The allegations are from people born...
Maine Diocese Deems Abuse Allegations Against 2 Priests Credible
Feb 3 2022 // Complaints alleging that two priests sexually abused children in the 1950s and 1970s have been deemed credible by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. One of the complaints focused on Renald Hallee, who served in Bangor...
Church Victims Push Nebraska Lawmakers to Expand Lawsuit Window
Jan 24 2022 // Victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests urged Nebraska lawmakers on Friday to pass a law that would let people who were abused decades ago file lawsuits against the church or other organizations that were...
Fire at Louisiana Church Causes $150K in Damages
Jan 19 2022 // An early morning fire on Jan. 14 at a church in Louisiana’s capital left $150,000 worth of damages but no injuries, authorities said. The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded about 5:30 a.m. to a fire in North Baton...
Officials Blame Discarded Fireworks for Louisiana Church Blaze
Jan 12 2022 // Carelessly discarded New Year’s fireworks may have started a blaze that destroyed much of a church, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says. Investigators haven’t determined a definite cause of the...
Hilb Group Buys Interest in Tennessee-based Churchill Agency
Jan 5 2022 // The Hilb Group announced it has acquired membership interest in the Churchill Agency, based in Brentwood, Tennessee. The Hilb Group is a property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage headquartered in...
DOJ, Texas Church Shooting Victims At Odds Over How Much Air Force Owes
Dec 2 2021 // The U.S. Justice Department and survivors of a 2017 Texas church massacre are at odds over how much the Air Force should pay in compensation for failing to flag a conviction that might have prevented the gunman from...
Missouri County Approves $146.7K Settlement to Church’s COVID Lawsuit
Oct 20 2021 // Officials in Missouri’s Jackson County approved a settlement with a church that had sued over COVID-19 restrictions that it claimed discriminated against religion. The Jackson County Legislature voted to approve a...
People Moves: Promotions at A.I.M. Mutual, Merchants; Fred C. Church Hires Thompson
Oct 14 2021 // A.I.M. Mutual Names Landers as Vice President, Chief Operating Officer A.I.M. Mutual’s board of directors elected Daniel Landers as vice president and chief operating officer, effective October 1. In this capacity,...
Trial to Assess Damages in 2017 Texas Church Massacre Now Underway
Oct 7 2021 // A trial to assess damages owed to families of the victims of the Sutherland Springs church massacre began with vivid witness accounts of the shooting. John Porter Holcombe testified for several hours on Sept. 4 about the...
Lawsuit says Nashville Diocese Failed to Protect Minor from Sexual Abuse
Oct 1 2021 // A lawsuit accuses the Catholic Diocese of Nashville of failing to protect a minor child from sexual abuse by an employee at a Murfreesboro church. The suit filed in Circuit Court in Nashville claims the diocese received...
Fire Destroys Historic Church in South Chicago Suburb
Sep 22 2021 // A weekend fire destroyed a historic church in Chicago’s far southern suburbs that had appeared in the 2002 film “Road to Perdition.” Officials said nearly a dozen fire departments responded to the Sept....
Feds Investigating Suspected Arson Fire at Historic Kansas City Church
Sep 21 2021 // A federal investigation is underway after arson damaged a historic Kansas City, Missouri, church that now serves a congregation predominantly made up of people from the South Sudan. John Ham of the Kansas City office of...
Texas Supreme Court Tosses Lawsuits Against Store Over 2017 Church Shooting
Jul 19 2021 // The Texas Supreme Court in late June ruled survivors and relatives of those killed in a 2017 mass killing at a church can’t sue a sporting goods chain for selling the gunman the rifle used in the attack. The court...
People Moves: Church Mutual Adds Stampen as Chief People Officer; Lau Now COO at Robertson Ryan; J.M. Wilson Promotes Mandwee, Hires Head and Durflinger
Jul 16 2021 // Church Mutual Insurance Pamela Stampen has been named chief people officer of Merrill, Wisconsin-based Church Mutual Insurance Co., reporting to Rich Poirier, president and CEO. Stampen’s role will encompass all the...
Air Force Mostly at Fault in Deadly 2017 Texas Church Attack, Judge Says
Jul 8 2021 // A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for a former serviceman killing more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 because it failed to submit his criminal history into a database,...
Jim Bakker, Missouri Church Settle Suit over COVID-19 Claims
Jun 25 2021 // Jim Bakker and his southwestern Missouri church will pay restitution of $156,000 to settle a lawsuit that accuses the TV pastor of falsely claiming a health supplement could cure COVID-19. Missouri court records show that...
People Moves: Ogilvie to EVP at Church Mutual; Gross Joins ManchesterStory; RPS Promotes Doyle in Chicago
Jun 24 2021 // Church Mutual Church Mutual Insurance Co., based in Merrill, Wisconsin, has promoted Alan Ogilvie to executive vice president in addition to his existing role as president – subsidiaries. Ogilvie joined Church Mutual in...
AM Best Upgrades Credit Ratings of Southern Mutual Church Insurance
Jun 18 2021 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” (Excellent) from “a-” (Excellent) of Southern Mutual Church...
