CANADA
The Telegram
Mark Rendell Special to The Telegram
Published on April 22, 2014
The Supreme Court of Canada will announce Thursday whether Guardian Insurance Co. has to continue paying for the sins of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of
St. John’s.
The decision is part of a 20-year dispute between Guardian and the administrative arm of the Catholic Church in
St. John’s over whether the insurance company has to pay indemnities to victims of sexual abuse by priests.
It goes back to 1989, when a minor filed a claim against the Episcopal Corp. related to allegations of sexual abuse by James Hickey, a priest in the St. John’s diocese, between 1982 and 1988.
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