NY High Court Backs Insurer in Priest Sex Abuse Case

By Andrew Scurria
Law 360
May 7, 2013

http://www.law360.com/articles/439286/ny-high-court-backs-insurer-in-priest-sex-abuse-case

Law360, New York (May 07, 2013, 4:24 PM ET) -- New York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a Catholic priest’s abuse of a minor over more than five years could not be treated as a single occurrence under insurance policies issued to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, saying the diocese must pay deductibles for each policy it was covered under.

Affirming a lower appellate court decision, the New York Court of Appeals held that under the state’s so-called unfortunate event test, the separate instances of abuse shared too few characteristics to be considered a repeated...