Confidentially seek legal aid for sexual abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
If you are a victim of Church of Jesus Christ sexual abuse, we can help you move forward.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), formerly the Mormon Church, is facing sexual abuse allegations stemming from decades of coverups and mismanagement within its ranks. The tragic outcome is countless victims who have been silenced for fear of being ex-communicated, shamed, or ostracized within the religious community.
The expert attorneys at Hurley McKenna & Mertz have represented many victims of sexual abuse over decades of legal practice, including 4,000+ former Boy Scouts.
Filing a claim could be an important step in your journey to move forward from abuse. We’re ready to offer supportive, confidential legal counsel, answer questions, and simplify the process of filing a claim. Contact us today.
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A Sample of Our Successes
- $89,100,000Sexual Abuse
Record settlement from the Boy Scouts of America for 16 childhood sexual abuse victims of notorious Boy Scout troop leader Thomas Hacker. HMM uncovered evidence that the Boy Scouts were aware of Hacker’s arrest in Indiana for sexual assault and battery of boys as early as February 1970. Yet because of the Boy Scouts of America’s inadequate screening system, Hacker resurfaced as a scoutmaster in Illinois later in the 1970s and continued molesting boys for the better part of two decades after that at a Boy Scout Troop based in Oak Lawn, Illinois and throughout the Chicago area.
- $41,149,942Medical Malpractice
Record setting 2024 jury verdict against OSF HealthCare System on behalf of 72-year-old man with atrial fibrillation [AFib] who suffered a catastrophic stroke because Cardiologists and Advanced Practice Nurses failed to monitor the patient’s INR levels or increase his dose of the anticoagulant medication Coumadin to prevent cardioembolic stroke.
- $31,723,388.20Medical Malpractice
Settlement in 2023 for a child with a brain injury, cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia who was injured at birth. The child’s mother was 36 weeks pregnant and went to a Chicago-area hospital’s emergency room in 2016 with headache, shortness of breath and protein in her urine, which are signs and symptoms of preeclampsia. Hospital emergency department personnel failed to transfer the mother to the labor and delivery unit for continuous electronic fetal monitoring and expeditious delivery of the baby, as required by the standard of care for the treatment of preeclampsia. Instead, hospital personnel transferred the mother to the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. When the attending obstetrician delivered the child by cesarean section approximately ten hours after the mother’s arrival at the hospital, the child was lifeless and had no pulse due to prolonged loss of oxygen, with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, APGAR scores of 0/0/0/0, and requiring twenty-five minutes of resuscitation.
- $31,250,000Product Liability
Record settlement where a defective product resulted in a severe and permanent injury.
