Judge orders insurers to pay Del. sexual abuse victims
BY: Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — 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, and he angrily turned aside the insurers’ arguments. The insurers had balked at contributing $15.4 million toward the $77 [...] |
Judge to decide on Catholic diocese bankruptcy plan
BY: Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. — The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington told a federal bankruptcy judge Friday that the diocese’s reorganization plan is fair and just for all creditors, including victims of priest sex abuse, and that he doesn’t expect the diocese to provide pension payments or other benefits to known child abusers. “I think [...] |



