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Imagine you are the elderly wife of a low-level missionary at a remote Christian hospital and elementary school in the developing world.
By happenstance, you witness the highly esteemed chief physician repeatedly spending long hours alone with a young girl in a private area of the mission compound. You suspect child sexual abuse and sound the alarm, but no one believes you. Your colleagues shun and ostracize you until you leave the mission field. Years later, you discover your suspicions were right and the physician is convicted for sexual abuse and sentenced to years in prison. Keep reading
Will Your Church's Insurance Policy Cover an Abuse Claim?
Why your leaders must review insurance coverages before something ever happens.
Ashley: What kind of insurance coverage do churches need to make sure that they’re covered in the case of sexual abuse?
Peter: Thanks for asking this. The process is complex.
What strikes me the most in my experience is the fact that coverage is often seen as a means to ‘rest’ relative to accountability and ministry protection. In light of this, I might say the best is organizations that are actually self-insured, meaning they have long been putting money away to be prepared for allegations, mindful that they can truly respond with a ministerial arm given they are not ‘controlled’ by the carrier per se.
However, smaller churches [often] rely on coverage as one level of protection, and this is prudent.
So I suggest that churches look at both claims-made and occurrence type coverages first off. These are very different yet need to be understood. And if you go from one to the other, then there are other elements to make sure there are no gaps. Keep reading
What can you church do to better protect children in your community and beyond? What can it do to better protect children in your congregation? What is preventing it from doing more? What can be done to eliminate or reduce these obstacles?Photo credit: Pixabay, public domain
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