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| ettlement | Date/Year | Priests | Amount ($000s) |
Victims | Fees |
Amount per Victim ($000s) |
Comments |
| Lafayette LA | 1984 to 1986 | 1 (Gauthe) | 5,500 | 13 | 40% | 254 | Total of multiple settlements. |
| Lafayette LA | 1986-02-07 | 1 (Gauthe) | 1,250 | 1 | 40% | 750 | Award in jury trial; $1M for the victim and $250K for his parents. |
| Lafayette LA | 1987-12-11 | 1 (Gauthe) | 1,800 | 1 | 40% | 1,080 | Award in jury trial; $1.55M for the victim and $250K for his parents. |
| Lafayette LA | 1986 to 1990 | 1 (Gauthe) | 9,450 | 19 | 40% | 298 | Calculated from a 1990 total of $18M for payouts to 34 Gauthe victims, less the early settlements and the awards of the 1986 and 1987 trials. |
| Winona and St. Paul and Minneapolis MN | 1990-12-07 | 1 priest (Adamson) | 1,042 | 1 | 40% | 625 | The jury award of $3.5M was reduced by the judge on 4/30/91 to $1.042M in compensatory and punitive damages. |
| Orange and LA CA | 1991-01-15 | 1 priest (Lenihan) | 25 | 1 | 40% | 15 | The dioceses received a letter in 1978 regarding the abuse alleged in this case. |
| Fall River MA | 1992-12-03 and later | 1 (Porter) | 8,000 | 101 | 40% | 48 | Original 12/3/92 settlement involved 68 victims, but others subsequently joined. |
| Camden NJ | 1993-10 | (McGarvey, Shannon, McElroy, Kelly, et al.) | 1,800 | 15 | 40% | 72 | |
| Camden NJ | 1990 to 1994-01-11 | 1,400 | 4 | 40% | 210 | Amount and number of plaintiffs determined by subtracting the numbers for the October 1993 settlement (above) from a total since 1990 also provided in that article. | |
| Altoona-Johnstown PA | 1994-04-21 | 1 priest (Luddy) | 2,569 | 1 | 40% | 1,541 | Jury found for plaintiff on 4/21/94; ultimate award of $2.569M in this complex case was $869K in compensatory damages, delay damages, and punitive damages to be paid by Luddy, plus $1.7M in restored punitive damages to be paid by diocese. |
| Bridgeport CT | 1994-06-06 | 1 priest (Brett) | 250 | 2 | 40% | 75 | A redacted copy of this settlement with confidentiality agreement is included in the Rosado documents, Bates 6897-6099. The Connecticut Post dates this settlement to May 1994, using the 5/20/94 date on which the plaintiffs signed the agreement. The effective date is 6/6/94, when Egan signed the document. |
| Covington KY | 1995 | 1 priest (Bierman) | 737 | 1 | 40% | 442 | Jury award. |
| Santa Rosa & SF CA | 1996-03-21 | 3 (Keegan, O'Shea, Timmons) | 2,500 | 15 | 40% | 100 | |
| New York NY - Jesuits | 1997-01-30 | 1 priest (O'Brien) | 25 | 1 | 40% | 15 | See also the settlement agreement andO'Brien's work history. |
| Bridgeport CT | 1997-08-26 | 1 priest (Brett) | 1,000 | 1 | 40% | 600 | Jury award and punitive damages in Martinelli v. Bridgeport. Ultimately settled for an undisclosed amount. |
| Dallas TX | 1998-03-04 | 1 priest (Kos) | 7,500 | 3 | 40% | 1,500 | The 3 survivors represented by Demarest settled for $7.5M. They and the other 8 survivors (see below) were originally awarded $119.6M by a jury on 7/24/97. |
| Dallas TX | 1998-07-10 | 1 priest (Kos) | 23,400 | 8 | 40% | 1,755 | The 8 survivors represented by Turley settled for $23.4M. They and the other 3 survivors (see above) were originally awarded $119.6M by a jury on 7/24/97. |
| Stockton CA | 1998-07-16 | 1 priest (O'Grady) | 7,650 | 2 | 40% | 2,295 | Original jury award on 7/16/98 was $30 million. |
| St. Louis MO | 1999-02-23 | 1 priest (Gummersbach) | 1,200 | 1 | 40% | 720 | |
| Santa Rosa CA | 2000-03-09 | 1 priest (Kimball) | 1,600 | 4 | 40% | 115 | By the terms of this unusual settlement, $500K was allocated to establishing programs to assist survivors. We have assumed that attorney's fees and expenses were calculated from the $1.6M, with the program and the cash payments to the plaintiffs coming out of the balance. There were several nonmonetary provisions as well. |
| Los Angeles CA | 2000-12-04 | 1 priest (Harris) | 5,200 | 1 | 40% | 3,120 | Included nonmonetary provisions. |
| Bridgeport CT | 2001-03-08 | 6 priests (Pcolka, Federici, Carr, Coleman, Gorecki, and Malloy) | 15,000 | 26 | 40% | 346 | The amount of this settlement was not reported at the time, but later articles have stated that it was "about $15 million," a number estimated from thediocesan total of $37.7M from 1953 to 2/15/04, minus the $21M settlement on 10/16/03, and the $250K settlement on 6/6/94. This leaves $450K for other settlements, for which amounts have not been disclosed, including: • 1/13/89 (O'Connor) • 1/21/94 (Brett) • 6/26/95 (Coleman) • 3/4/98 (O'Connor) • 3/13/98 (O'Connor) • 5/24/99 (Federici) • Summer 1999 (Stubbs, Carr, and Moore) • 10/21/03 (Moore) After the 2/15/04 total, settlements were made for undisclosed amounts on: • 1/18/05 (Castaldo) • 8/1/06 (Gildea) On the 3/8/01 settlement, see background article with corrections on Malloy and discussion of Egan's role. |