Milwaukee Archdiocese, insurers seek settlement talks on abuse claims

Annysa Johnson reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The U.S. District Court has under consideration whether insurance policies from years ago, discovered in the course of our Archdiocese's pending bankruptcy case, provide coverage to any of the claims of child sexual abuse. Claims based on allegations that our Archdiocese was negligent in reassigning known abusers are generally barred by the statute of limitations. As a result, claims have more recently alleged that it was a kind of fraud to fail to disclose to parishioners that a newly-assigned priest had a prior offense. [The statute of limitations for fraud does not begin to run until the fraud is, or should have been, discovered.]

The current controversy, as I understand it, involves policies from many years ago, discovered in the course of the bankruptcy case. 

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