Judge affirms Boy Scouts of America's $2.46 bln sex abuse settlement
U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews in Wilmington, Delaware, ruled that the Boy Scouts agreement, which would create the largest sexual abuse settlement fund in U.S. history, was a good faith effort to resolve claims by more than 80,000 men who say they were abused as children by troop leaders.
The Boy Scouts organization said it was "enormously grateful" to abuse survivors who spoke out about their experiences and who voted to support the settlement. The Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice, a group of 18,000 sexual abuse survivors, said the agreement would bring "some justice to tens of thousands of survivors, men and woman, many of whom have been waiting decades for this day to arrive."The judge rejected insurers' appeals that argued the Boy Scouts organization colluded with abuse claimants to shift liability to insurers.
The money for the settlement comes from the Boy Scouts, local councils, insurers and organizations that have chartered Scouting units and activities, including churches. The Boy Scouts also contributed additional insurance rights, which may be worth more than $4 billion, to the fund that will pay abuse claims, according to Andrews' ruling.
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