December 20, 2024
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY – The flippant response to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is a symptom of a far deeper societal wound, Dave Catalfamo argues in an op-ed published by the Daily News yesterday. Catalfamo, the founder and executive director of the Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation (CJCC), contends that complex systems continue to grind down the most vulnerable among us.
The moment we’re in today isn’t about insurance, or health care, or any one issue — it’s about the failures of our institutions to maintain the trust of those they serve. It is a reflection of a society pushed to its breaking point, where institutional mechanisms of justice have been compromised until individuals lose faith in them entirely. We can’t just look away.
The CJCC is an independent alliance of survivors of child sex abuse, their representatives, and advocates seeking full restitution for survivors of child sex abuse. Since the Child Victims Act (CVA) passed in 2019, the vast majority of survivors are still waiting for justice because insurance companies continue to refuse to pay claims, undermining survivors and standing in the way of justice.
It’s on leaders to take action to restore people’s belief that our government serves their interests, not the interests of the wealthy and the powerful. To reclaim the promise of representative government — a government that serves the people, not corporate ledgers.
Catalfamo calls on leaders like New York Governor Kathy Hochul to not let her own state agencies serve corporate interests over the people who elected her, and to give long overdue justice to the survivors of child sexual abuse.
The alternative — a society where frustration metastasizes into violence — is unacceptable. We are better than this. We must be better than this.
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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 author and journalist Stephen Jimenez, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and longtime advocate who helped pass the Child Victims Act (CVA), and attorneys James Marsh, Founding Partner at Marsh 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.