ENGLAND
Christian Today
November 3, 2017
By Harry Farley
The Archbishop of Canterbury is being urged by a clerical abuse survivor to abandon the Church’s insurer in the wake of a scandal over its ‘derisory and heartless’ treatment of victims.
It comes after three bishops urged the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group (EIG) to review a settlement of £35,000 that was offered to Gilo, whose surname is withheld to protect his identity, saying they were ‘very concerned about the way in which the claim was handled at the time’.
The Bishop of Durham, Paul Butler, the Bishop at Lambeth, Tim Thornton, and the Bishop of Buckingham, Alan Wilson, expressed their concern that ‘horse-trading’ between lawyers about settlement figures had ‘little concern for the impact’ on the survivor.
Now Gilo is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to review the settlement offers made by EIG to abuse survivors and relieve the company of its responsibility to reach settlements.
‘The way the Church and its insurers has treated survivors institutionally compounds the abuse we have already suffered,’ he wrote in the letter to Welby.
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