RogerRabbit
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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject: Home insurer paying for kid-sex defendants |
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http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=80809
Now I know why I have never used State fFarm since the 60s
| Quote: | Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there - for two men who advocate legal sex with young boys.
The Illinois insurer is paying Boston lawyers to defend two members of the North American Man Boy Love Association against a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a 10-year-old Cambridge boy murdered by pedophiles.
``People who insure with State Farm should know a percentage of profits made off their premiums is going to defend people who want to rape their kids,'' said Lawrence Frisoli, attorney for the family of Jeffrey Curley, who was murdered by NAMBLA member Charles Jaynes in 1997.
State Farm has agreed to cover Peter Reed of Phoenix and Robert Schwartz, whose address has not been disclosed, through the men's homeowner's policies for personal liability.
The men are among 18 defendants whom the Curley family claims contributed to the murder of their son through Jaynes' membership in NAMBLA. Frisoli argues NAMBLA materials taught Jaynes how to lure and kidnap his victim.
``We don't ask before we insure you what organizations you belong to,'' said State Farm spokesman Dick Luedke at company headquarters in Bloomington
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the company has an obligation to insure the men under their policies but reserves the right to drop the coverage at any time.
State Farm, however, refused to cover another NAMBLA member, Peter Melzer of Bronx, N.Y., in the case. Luedke said he could not offer specific details of the decision to decline coverage, citing privacy concerns.
In a rejection letter to Melzer obtained by the Herald, a State Farm claims manager in Jericho, N.Y., JoAnn Phillips, cited clauses in Melzer's policy excluding coverage for damages resulting from ```willful and malicious acts of the insured'' and another clause requiring prompt notification by the insured.
Melzer and the remaining defendants in the case are being represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU contends the men have no connection to Jaynes' crimes and have asked a federal judge to throw out the suit.
``The ACLU is one thing but State Farm?'' Frisoli said. ```They insure these people in case someone fell down in their house. They should have said we didn't insure you to be a pedophile or train pedophiles.''
Luedke said State Farm is obligated under certain state's laws and the terms of various policies to cover the two men.
He offered an analogy of a woman who mows down her husband with her car and said State Farm would continue to insure her unless a jury convicted her of the crime.
Attorneys for Schwartz and Reed declined comment |
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