The former president of the Kentucky Bar Association gave up her right to any compensation in a class action against a Catholic diocese by voluntarily exiting from the case without good cause, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Aug. 23 (B. Dahlenburg Bonar PSC v. Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., Ky., No. 2010-SC-000087-DG).
The state top court affirmed lower court rulings that denied Barbara D. Bonar any portion of the $85 million that the diocese paid to settle a class action filed on behalf of alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.
The record did not support Bonar’s claim ...
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