GUAM
The Guam Daily Post
October 2, 2017
By Mindy Aguon
A new mediator has been agreed upon by the parties in more than 100 church sex abuse cases.
Attorney David Lujan, who represents the bulk of the plaintiffs who have alleged sexual abuse by members of the Archdiocese of Agana and the Boy Scouts of America, confirms retired federal Judge Michael Hogan will not be the arbitrator for the church settlement discussions.
“One of the groups didn’t want Hogan and refused to deal with him because of a bad experience in the past,” Lujan said.
Antonio Piazza, of Mediated Negotiations based in San Francisco, California, has been recognized as one of the leading mediators in the world.
According to his company website, he pioneered the development of mediated negotiations as the preferred alternative to protracted conflict in complex civil disputes, having successfully mediated the resolution of more than 4,000 cases since 1980 with some individual settlements exceeding $1 billion.
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