Briefing: Ecclesiastical’s child abuse claims shame – CEO Hews’ admission too little too late?

UNITED STATES
Post Online

July 8, 2020

By Jen Frost

If Ecclesiastical CEO Mark Hews is sorry for how the insurer has handled non-recent child sexual abuse claims, should he not be addressing the victims rather than shareholders?

Ecclesiastical has come under fire in the recent past for its handling of non-recent CSA claims.

Post revealed last February that the insurer and law firm BLM had used a ‘desktop’ expert, who had never met the claimant, to justify offering a knocked down claims payout based on a second hand psychiatric profile of a survivor while he was hospitalised following a suicide attempt.

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