Victims to Continue Sexual Abuse Claims Despite Buffalo Diocese Bankruptcy, Lawyer Says

BUFFALO (NY)
Law.com/New York Law Journal

March 3, 2020

By Tom McParland

The diocese, a spokeswoman emphasized, was reorganizing, not liquidating, and survivors would be a “No. 1 priority” among its creditors.

The Diocese of Buffalo’s decision last week to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was expected to complicate, but not foreclose, efforts to recover on behalf of alleged victims of child sexual abuse, an attorney for some of the accusers said Tuesday.

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