Insurance policy

Christian Century, July 15, 2008

INSURANCE POLICY: Insurance companies can help prevent child abuse in the church, just as they helped make seat belts mandatory, argues legal analyst Marci Hamilton. They can require that churches and other organizations conduct background checks on employees and report allegations of abuse. They can lobby to eliminate civil and criminal statutes of limitations on child-abuse cases (though the Supreme Court has ruled that criminal statutes of limitations can't be extended retrospectively).

And insurance companies can study whether mandatory reporting statutes are working. (FindLaw.com).