The Berkeley (West Virginia) County Council has settled a lawsuit that alleged a former sheriff’s deputy sexually abused a woman. The council will pay $25,000 to settle the lawsuit filed by Donna K. Pulse. Council attorney Norwood Bentley III told …
Some victims of childhood sexual abuse would have one more year to file civil lawsuits against private or nonprofit organizations that employed their alleged abusers under a bill that passed a key legislative committee Wednesday. The bill already passed the …
A woman is suing the Salvation Army, claiming the organization moved a minister from Oahu to Maui after she reported he sexually abused her in the 1950s. Nancy Spencer’s lawsuit filed on Maui this week claims she was 11 when …
A man who was sexually abused by a Boy Scouts camp counselor more than a decade ago in San Diego County has sued the organization and his abuser. City News Service says the man, who’s now 29, sued last week. …
NAS Insurance Services has launched a broader professional liability insurance program for tutors that provides coverage for their E&O and abuse or molestation exposure on one policy. The program offers a simple application, binding and quoting process that includes errors …
An Oregon church is challenging requirements set by its insurance company for how it treats sex offenders who attend services. Pastor Chad McComas of Set Free Christian Fellowship in Medford told Mail Tribune the church disclosed that known sex offenders …
An Outagamie County, Wis., jury has awarded two brothers $700,000 in a fraud trial against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. The civil jury found the diocese responsible for concealing a former priest’s history of child molestation. Brothers Todd and …
Great American Insurance Group has made available a new coverage option for abuse or molestation with expenses covered outside of limits. The Specialty Human Services Division will offer this new specialty coverage to its independent insurance agents who market to …
An attorney who represents three people who say they were molested by a former cadet at The Citadel in South Carolina has filed six lawsuits against the former student, the school and its president. Mullins McLeod said his clients and …
A man who alleges he was sexually molested by a Catholic priest in the 1970s has filed a civil lawsuit against a West Texas diocese and the Jesuits, claiming the defendants knew or should have known of the abuses and …
