GUAM
Pacific Daily News
December 21, 2017
By Haidee V. Eugenio
Formal mediation to try to settle nearly 150 Guam clergy sex abuse cases won’t start until June 2018 to allow for the deposition of each of the plaintiffs.
This will allow the local Catholic Church’s insurance carrier, a subsidiary of AIG, to help evaluate claims for damages and liability, attorneys told the federal court Thursday.
Each of the plaintiffs will be deposed for up to four hours each. They will provide sworn statements to the parties’ attorneys, said Seattle-based attorney Michael Patterson, co-counsel for the Archdiocese of Agana.
The archdiocese is a named defendant in all the clergy sex abuse cases filed in the U.S. District Court of Guam and the Superior Court of Guam.
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