Director, Church Risk Management Division
Paul Rytting
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Sexual Abuse and the Institutional Response
Director, Church Risk Management Division
Rytting appears throughout the litigation record as the Church officer who manages abuse exposure. His emails to insurers during the 2018 West Virginia trial, later unsealed in the Church's suit against those insurers, record settlement positions in dollar terms. FLOODLIT's contention that his 2012 sworn statement that "the first lawsuit against the Church relating to sexual abuse was brought in 1989" is contradicted by a 1984 Arizona filing is the sharpest documentary challenge to the Church's account of its own institutional memory.
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West Virginia settles mid-trialhinge
The Church settled the six families' suit during trial. FLOODLIT later established from court records that the settlement was $32 million and that the Church had spent more than $27 million defending the case — nearly $60 million in total, and the largest known payout tied to abuse in the Church. Roughly 12,000 pages of the record remain sealed under a 2016 order of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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