SCHENECTADY — A state judge ruled Wednesday that the civil case brought on behalf of 1,100 former St. Clare’s Hospital workers against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany over the hospital’s busted pension plan will proceed to trial, six years after the initial lawsuit was filed.
In a sweeping decision that addressed seven motions that were argued in state Supreme Court in Schenectady County last month, acting state Supreme Court Justice Vincent Versaci denied all of the defendant’s motions to dismiss the case.
St. Clare’s Hospital opened in 1949 during the post-World War II boom as a Catholic hospital…