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Many organizations such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America have filed for “Chapter 11” Bankruptcy to limit their potential financial losses in sexual abuse lawsuits. In today’s post our sexual abuse victim’s lawyer explains how a Chapter 11 filing could affect your rights if you are considering such a lawsuit.

Sexual Abuse by Doctors Who Were Government Employees In other posts on this website the medical malpractice and sexual abuse victim’s lawyers at The Doan Law Firm have discussed the problem of sexual abuse by physicians and other health care providers. In many such cases the abuser was in individual private practice or was a member of a private practice medical group. In today’s post our sexual abuse lawyer reviews recent cases where the abusing physician was an employee of…

New York Extends Child Victims Act As we noted in a previous post, in February 2019 the State of New York enacted the Child Victims Act in order to extend the statute of limitations that apply to lawsuits filed by victims of childhood sexual abuse. Since our first post, we have learned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law legislation that extends the “look-back” provision of the Child Victims Act. Under that extension, childhood victims of sexual abuse who…

Foster Care and Child Sexual Abuse It is a sad fact of life that, on occasion, a child’s parents are deemed unable to provide a safe, stable, home environment for their children. If such a situation should develop, the state has the legal authority to temporarily remove an endangered child from their home and place that child in foster care. Although the foster care system usually works as intended, there have been many cases where a foster child has become…

Every state allows an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse to file a lawsuit against their abuser, but limit the “time window” to file such lawsuits. In today’s post, our sexual abuse victims’ lawyer explains how “discovery” of sexual abuse affects a victim’s ability to sue their abusers.