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Amendments to New Jersey's Charitable Immunity Law Lead to $1.8M Settlement

"I think that this case shows that the 2019 amendments to the statute do what they are supposed to do, which is hold the organization financially responsible for the criminal sexual abuse of a minor by a member of that organization," said the plaintiff's lawyer Michael Pender.

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St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in New Gretna, New Jersey. Credit: Google

A $2 million settlement in an Atlantic County, New Jersey, suit claiming a church choir director molested a minor is being called a harbinger of broader institutional liability for sexual abuse under the state’s recently revised Charitable Immunity Act.

The settlement was reached after Superior Court Judge Michael Winkelstein ruled that the church and its parent organization were vicariously liable for the abuse of the young church member under a 2019 amendment to the act.

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