Settlements and legal fees escalate for the Kansas City "Catholic Diocese"

Judy L. Thomas insurancenewsnet.com March 14--Six years after a massive settlement closed the curtain on a dark era of priest sexual abuse scandals, the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese is spending millions on a new crop of cases. Settlements last month with two families whose minor daughters were victims of a priest convicted of producing child pornography brought to $6 million the total the diocese has paid out since last May. That doesn't include $7 millionthe diocese has spent on legal costs involving those and other sex abuse cases the past two fiscal years. And the end may not be in sight. With more than two dozen sexual abuse lawsuits pending, along with a breach-of-contract case filed by plaintiffs who settled with the diocese for $10 million in 2008... to read more: insurancenewsnet.com