Insurance claims coverage in danger following Minnesota Archdiocese charges

St Mary's Catholic Church Minnesota insurance claims companies

Lawyers are cautioning that the criminal charges laid against the corporation could endanger coverage. Attorneys for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have cautioned that the criminal charges that have been laid against the corporation could potentially place coverage insurance claims in danger. This could cause the archdiocese to have to come up with the money to pay some of the victims of clergy abuse. At the moment, the archdiocese is facing a number of different counts of alleged failure to provide protection to victims of a former priest…

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Insurance companies sued by Minnesota Archdiocese

St Mary's Catholic Church Minnesota insurance claims companies

Twenty insurers are have had lawsuits filed against them over issues regarding sex abuse claims. In Minnesota, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has now announced that it has filed lawsuits against 20 insurance companies in an effort to attempt to force those insurers to have to pay for the liabilities on claims involving sex abuse by the clergy. The lawsuit has now been filed in federal court, saying that the archdiocese should have been covered for decades. The complaint stated that the insurance companies had been providing liability…

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