Boy Scouts Insurers Seek Tougher Rules to Curb Bogus Abuse Claims

A group of Boy Scouts of America insurers is looking to impose tougher rules to ferret out potentially fraudulent survivor claims filed to a $2.64 billion sex abuse victims’ trust.

The audit program proposed by a settlement trustee earlier this month doesn’t “sufficiently address” issues insurers raised last September, the group said in an objection Friday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

“What the Settlement Trustee has proposed is only the first step towards effectively combating any fraudulent claims as required by this Court,” the insurers, including AIG, said in the filing.

The proposal comes as ...