Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> October 1-15, 2006

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Volunteer in Service Program
Is Acting “on Behalf of” Church

Insurer must cover damages caused by driver
delivering statue of Virgin Mary to parishioner

The Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America has been ordered to pay more than $16 million in damages to an 82-year-old man seriously injured in an automobile accident caused by a volunteer in a service program associated with a church in Milwaukee.

The volunteer was delivering a statue of the Virgin Mary to a parishioner as part of program of the Christ King Legion of Mary, a service program consisting of members of Christ King Parish, a church within the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. She ran a red light and caused the accident.

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