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Non-settling insurers billed billions in Boy Scouts abuse settlement fund | Insurance Business America

The BSA settlement trust is suing the non settling insurance companies. The next court appearance is in August. Judge Houser has billed these insurers a total of approximately $7 Billion. You can Google this it public record.

The trust is going after the non settling insurers but there still won’t be enough to fully fund.

The 2.4% was a cost of living adjustment. It was part of the settlement documents and has nothing to do with any additional contributions.

And a new countdown begins…..great news.

Yesterday my attorneys contacted me and informed me that my claim amount had been determined. After years of anxiety about what the outcome (I truly believed I deserved the maximum amount) my claim came in at 2.67 million. Yes, I know I will most like only get a fraction of that amount but the fact that my pain and suffering was valued at that amount is the most important aspect. In all honesty I cried, just like after 50 years of telling not one soul I finally opened up about what had happened to me. With the appeals and the court cases that may come up I know that this is not over yet, but I finally feel like I have crossed third base, and I am on my way to home plate. Over the past 22 hours I have thought quite a bit about how I have survived these past 6 years and the people that have given me moral support. I have reached out to those folks and thanked them. I now want to reach out to my survivor community on this forum and say thank you, without all of you I do not know how I would have made it. Thank you to Scouter Forum for giving me a place to vent my frustrations, state my opinions and allow me to interact with other survivors and not kicking me off the site. Thank you, moderators, for your patience. I am sure some of my posts made some of you cringe. I want to thank @ThenNow for always having my backside no matter how outrageous some of my posts were. Our DM's to each other always made me feel like I had a brother standing next to me. I want to thank the TCC (I am sure there are members here on Scouter Forum). I know that all of you took on an almost impossible thankless task that was never going to please everyone. One last thing (at least for now) @skeptic please no sad or confused faces. Maybe this will be the one post that you can give a green up arrow to that I have written. Thank you all, John

Thank you so much for your update. I have thought of you often these past few years wondering how you were doing. I am glad to hear you are alive and kicking. Personally, I am still in the waiting period to hear the value of my claim. I decided not to ask for access to look at the progress thru the portal as I believe it might trigger some anxiety. Instead, I have continued to work to keep myself busy and of course to make a few shekels. I am definitely ready for this phase to be over with so I can roughly plan the next decade or more of my life. I want to thank you for helping me feel like there was someone else riding shotgun with me in the first couple of years of this process. You will always hold a special place in my heart.

The County of Los Angeles has announced a 4 billion dollar settlement with 6,000 claimants for sexual abuse. BSA CSA survivors are getting the proverbial shaft.

You are correct it is fair, though maybe not always wise. @skeptic for years has been espousing a view that CSA victims and more specifically BSA CSA victims do not deserve any more than a mere pittance for what they had to endure while under the watchful eye of the BSA. He has made statements where he has said that Survivors are taking money that belongs to today's youth (as if we were thieves). Claiming victimhood does not make one an authority on CSA. Rape and abuse of a child has to be one of the most horrific experiences that a young person can endure. To have to live with that pain for the rest of one's life is not an easy thing to endure, I know. Would @skeptic like to put a cap on the amount that could be awarded to a victim of someone who had gasoline deliberately poured on their body and then set on fire? And in every one of these venues there should be no cap on awards for CSA.

For someone who has never been a victim Mr. skeptic how do you feel qualified to be able to make such a statement? Are you even qualified at all about what a Child Sexual Abuse victim goes thru in their lifetime? Do you have firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be raped as a child? Post up the article (which makes me believe the state of Maryland is facing some big-time lawsuits and are trying to limit their exposure since they cannot do the cowardly "file bankruptcy"). Sometimes it is just better to keep your IMO's to yourself, so you don't appear to be so petty.

I for one voted no both times.

The BSA made sure that couldn’t happen because they filed the bankruptcy.

Enjoy your vacation. I welcome your viewpoint.

Exactly,,,yet you continue.

Please do not try to paint BSA as a victim.