LDS Church loses lawsuit against insurance companies over sex abuse settlements
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SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has ruled against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a lawsuit over who pays for sexual abuse settlements.
The Church sued its own insurance providers, National Union Insurance and ACE Property & Casualty Co., demanding it cover the cost of settlements tied to a West Virginia lawsuit over sexual abuse.
“They were aware of it but they just kept covering up and never did anything about it,” Tom Stollings, one of the plaintiffs in the West Virginia lawsuit against the faith, told FOX 13 News.
In 2018, the Church settled with Stollings and others over accusations of repeated sexual abuse of children by Michael Jensen. The lawsuit alleged church officials “negligently caused their abuse and resulting physical and emotional harm by failing to report a reasonable suspicion of child sexual abuse as required by West Virginia law, failing to properly supervise and train clergy, allowing the minor plaintiffs to come into contact with their abuser, failing to warn the minor plaintiffs and their parents, and otherwise failing to protect the plaintiffs from foreseeable harm.”
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