NEW YORK
Law 360
By Andrew Scurria
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…
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