Author: David Catalfamo
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ALBANY TURNS ITS BACK AGAIN ON SURVIVORS
YONKERS TIMES OP-ED FROM THE COALITION FOR JUST & COMPASSIONATE COMPENSATION | June 24, 2025 New York’s Failure to Fix Legal Loopholes Reveals Pattern of State-Sponsored Exploitation Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are condemning the New York State Assembly, Governor Kathy Hochul, and Attorney General Letitia James for failing to fix a legal flaw that is…
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Ad campaign urges Gov. Hochul to force insurers to pay for thousands of cases of sex abuse claims under New York’s Child Victims Act
By Carl Campanile Published June 2, 2025, 8:09 p.m. ET An ad campaign is pressuring Gov. Kathy Hochul to force insurance companies to pay claims to thousands of alleged sexual assault victims on behalf of churches, hospitals, schools, Boy Scouts troops and other employers they represent under the Child Victims Act. The victims who were allegedly abused as children…
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Churchill: Why won’t Kathy Hochul meet with St. Clare’s pensioners?
Times Union by Chris Churchill, Columnist – May 27, 2025 Former employees of the hospital shuttered by a state commission need an advocate in the governor’s office In 2021, soon after Kathy Hochul became the governor, the group representing former St. Clare’s Hospital employees sent her a letter. It explained their well-documented plight, telling Hochul how their…
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GUEST COLUMN: State must step up for St. Clare’s pensioners, abuse survivors
For Gazette Opinion, Daily Gazette May 20, 2025 For nearly six years, former workers of St. Clare’s Hospital have been fighting for justice through the courts. Last week’s ruling by Justice Vincent Versaci allowing their case against the Albany Diocese to proceed to trial reveals a troubling reality — survivors of childhood sexual abuse and…
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GUEST COLUMN: State must step up for St. Clare’s pensioners, abuse survivors
Daily Gazette – David Catalfamo | May 20, 2025 Guest Column- Read Full Article Here
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Chubb’s Delay Tactic Rejected by Court as Insurer Runs Out the Clock on Child Victims Act Survivors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:May 8, 2025 Chubb’s Delay Tactic Rejected by Court as Insurer Runs Out the Clock on Child Victims Act Survivors CJCC Blasts Hochul and DFS for Enabling Deadly Waiting GameWashington, DC – The Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation (CJCC) today condemned Chubb Insurance’s calculated strategy of legal obstruction, even as the New York Supreme Court rejected…
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N.Y. comptroller: Audit of Child Victims Act governmental liability isn’t feasible
Sprectrum 1 News | BY RYAN WHALEN NEW YORK STATE PUBLISHED 7:22 PM ET APR. 10, 2025 ALBANY, N.Y. — The Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation is an advocacy group representing the interest of New York’s Child Victims Act claimants. “There’s over 10,000 in the state and the vast, vast majority of them have not seen…
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Commentary: Lawmakers must act to move CVA claims forward
Albany Times-Union (Opinion) | By Stephen Jimenez and Kathryn Robb February 25, 2025 Insurance companies need to be held to account to bring justice for survivors of childhood sex abuse Six years ago this month, the Child Victims Act was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At the time, it was lauded as landmark legislation…
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ICYMI: Child Sex Abuse Survivors Call Out Albany’s Failure to Move CVA Claims Forward
February 26, 2025 NEW YORK, NY – Albany’s failure to hold major insurance companies accountable to cover Child Victims Act (CVA) claims is the main reason thousands of childhood sexual abuse cases have remained in limbo, Steve Jimenez and Kathryn Robb write in an op-ed published in the Albany Times-Union yesterday. Jimenez, a longtime advocate,…