Will Los Angeles’ $880 Million Settlement for Clergy Abuse Affect the New Orleans Archdiocese Settlement?


Lamothe Law Firm Attorney Kristi Schubert was featured on news coverage from Fox News 8 reporter David Jones: Clergy Abuse Survivor Advocates Hope $880 Million LA Settlement Will Work in Their Favor.

“Attorneys and survivors of clergy sexual abuse in New Orleans said they hope a massive settlement thousands of miles away will have ripple effects here. Ultimately, though, they said it falls to the whims of the local Archdiocese of New Orleans.”

“Kristi Schubert, an attorney representing around 70 survivors of clergy sexual abuse, said she learned from one of the attorneys involved in the Los Angeles settlement that the bishop in that case swayed toward providing more monetary compensation for survivors there.”

“Survivors are waiting for our archbishop to step up as well,” Schubert said of Archbishop Gregory Aymond.”

“Schubert said worlds still separate where the roughly 500 local survivors involved in the archdiocese’s ongoing bankruptcy case stand and where the local Catholic Church stands.”

For more information on the Los Angeles Archdiocese settlement, see this Los Angeles Times article written by Richard Winton and Hannah Fry: Archdiocese of Los Angeles to Pay $880 Million in the Largest Clergy Sexual Abuse Settlement

Kristi Schubert says, “The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to 1,353 people who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy within their diocese. This amounts to an average of over $600,000 to each survivor of clergy abuse. Yet the Archdiocese of New Orleans has proposed a bankruptcy plan of reorganization in which the Archdiocese would only pay an average of $125,000 to each survivor. The survivors of Louisiana deserve more.”

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