Chubb’s Delay Tactic Rejected by Court as Insurer Runs Out the Clock on Child Victims Act Survivors
CJCC Blasts Hochul and DFS for Enabling Deadly Waiting Game
Washington, DC – The Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation (CJCC) today condemned Chubb Insurance’s calculated strategy of legal obstruction even as the New York Supreme Court rejected the insurer’s latest attempt to dismiss bad faith and deceptive practices claims brought by the Archdiocese of New York. The CJCC also blasted Governor Hochul’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) for its complicity in allowing survivors to die waiting for justice.
“This ruling exposes Chubb’s true playbook—delay, deny, and wait for survivors to die,” said David Catlfamo, Executive Director of the CJCC. He added, “Let’s be brutally honest about what’s happening: Chubb doesn’t fear losing in court; they’re banking on outlasting victims. Meanwhile, Governor Hochul’s DFS watches from the sidelines as elderly survivors are systematically denied their final chance at justice.”
Richard Tollner, Chairman of the Unsecured Creditors Committee for the 619 survivors of Rockville Centre’s action that last fall reached agreement on a $323 million settlement, added: “The record is clear, when insurers come to the table settlements happen. Every day of delay is a deliberate choice to deny justice to those who have already waited decades.”
The court’s decision clears the way for the Archdiocese to pursue claims that Chubb deliberately orchestrated a war of attrition against abuse survivors—stonewalling settlements, manufacturing coverage disputes, and deploying an arsenal of procedural tactics designed to drain survivors’ resources and resolve. For every month gained through legal maneuvering, more survivors pass away, exactly as Chubb’s actuaries have coldly calculated.
“DFS’s failure to intervene isn’t negligence—it’s complicity in a corporate death watch,” Catalfamo continued. “While Hochul’s regulators hide behind procedural excuses, Chubb executives are literally timing their legal tactics to the mortality tables of aging survivors. Every motion filed, every appeal launched buys them more time while the clock runs out on lives shattered by abuse.”
Catalfamo concluded. “Every day without action is another victory for Chubb’s inhumane waiting game. The question is simple: How many more survivors must die before the Hochul administration honors the promise of the Child Victims Act?”
