HOLLIDAYSBURG (PA)
Altoona Mirror
By Phil Ray
HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Blair County judge ruled Friday that the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese's former insurance company should not have to pay the expenses of the sexual abuse case involving former Priest Francis Luddy.
The decision by Judge Hiram A. Carpenter likely ends a long dispute between the diocese and its insurance companies over expenses in the child sexual abuse case brought by Michael Hutchison, formerly of Altoona.
In 1994, a jury awarded Hutchison, who now lives in Akron, Ohio, more than $1 million for offenses that occurred in 1983 and 1984. Carpenter said the insurance company that provided coverage to the diocese for those years is responsible for the bills.