SYRACUSE (NY)
Syracuse.com
Mar 12, 2018
By Patrick Lohmann
In announcing a program to compensate victims of clergy sexual abuse, Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse officials said payments to victims would not come from parishioners’ donations.
Instead, they said, the money would come from the diocese’s general liability insurance fund.
In reality, however, money collected from church members each Sunday will be used to help pay the victims.
That’s because the diocese is self-insured. It doesn’t buy insurance from a third party like an insurance company.
That means the diocese acts as its own insurance company, taking some of the money collected at each church and putting it aside into a fund to cover costs that normally would be paid by an insurance company, said spokeswoman Danielle Cummings.
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