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"Catcher" Injured in Worshipper's Fall Sues Church

The latest “swoon-and-fall” case against a church comes with a novel twist –- the plaintiff was allegedly injured when another member of an Oregon church who was “slain in the spirit” fell on her.

Congregants have sued evangelical churches for failing to protect them from injury when they swoon during an altar call. The Michigan Court of Appeals recently upheld a $40,000 jury award, finding that a church had a duty to provide an usher to catch a swooning congregant as she fell backward.

But the lawsuit filed last week against the Portland Onnuri Church in Beaverton involves a congregant who was allegedly acting as a “catcher” when she suffered a fractured spinal vertebra.

Shin Lim Kim alleges the leader of a church service on Aug. 11, 2008 asked her to catch another congregant “who was going to be 'blessed' or who would be 'slain in the spirit.'” The leader then laid hands on Hyun Joo Yoon , who “fell backwards and began flailing, falling on and injuring plaintiff.”

The church was negligent, the complaint says, in not providing multiple catchers; failing to discuss “safe catching strategy” with congregants; selecting Kim -- “a small and not particularly strong person” -- as a catcher; and failing to instruct congregants on “the correct procedures to fall, so that they would not injure themselves and injure the person assisting and/or catching them.”

I don't understand why these folks just don't go to a faith healer and get healed!

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