June 7, 2024
Contact: press@justice4survivors.com | 978-807-7950
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY – As insurers across New York continue to refuse to pay Child Victims Act (CVA) claims – in clear defiance of Department of Financial Services (DFS)’ guidance that insurance companies should cooperate fully with the intent of the CVA – one survivor is telling his story. Stephen Jimenez, an advocate and survivor of childhood sexual abuse who helped pass the CVA five years ago, joined NY1’s Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to discuss how DFS is allowing insurers like CHUBB to defy the CVA with impunity.
“We’re calling on the Department of Financial Services, and specifically the supervisor, Adrienne Harris, [to act] – many survivors wrote to her, and we have not had a response,” Jimenez said. “Stop the legal squabbling. You’re talking about people who suffered for decades, and many of the victims are people that are now in their 60s, 70s, 80s. We’re now finding that people are starting to die, and it’s cynical to think that an insurance company is going to follow an actuarial table where we’re better off dead than we are alive in terms of their payment of these claims.”
The full interview is available on Inside City Hall’s website.
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The Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation (“CJCC”) is an independent alliance of survivors of child sex abuse, their representatives, and advocates seeking full restitution for survivors of child sex abuse. Among members of the coalition are attorneys James Marsh, Founding Partner at Marsh Law Firm, Jeff Herman, Founder of Herman Law Firm, and Hillary Nappi, Partner at Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie, who represent thousands of sexual abuse survivors in litigation against public and private entities.