State Farm Moves to Bar Judge from Ruling on Katrina Class Action
From an Undisclosed Location,
I won’t say where we are right now, but to give you a hint, ITP’s attorney, Buck, could not order a beer last night, Sunday, at the local Chili’s. War Eagle says he hasn’t looked better in years.
And to give you an idea of how widespread insurance disputes are down here, this Insurance Journal story says that State Farm is asking Judge L.T. Senter of the Southern District of Mississippi to recuse himself from hearing a motion on whether to certify a class action against the company because one of his clerks and a federal magistrate could be plaintiffs.
State Farm is also asking that a second clerk not be allowed to work on its case because that clerk is suing Allstate.
I will spare ITP readers that corny old joke about the definition of chutzpah. It’s on the site.
Private note to woman with the 615 area code who called about the public-service announcement: I lost your number. Call again: 646 226 1141.
Definition of chutzpah: the guy who murders his parents and asks for mercy because he’s an orphan.
February 26th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I hadn’t got enough gloom this weekend in Chicago, so I thought I would check in and see what misery in the Gulf increasing opacity has now made apparent.
The gulf needs to pull the big ‘L’ off its forehead before other corporate bottom feeders get the wrong idea. Just today I saw an article about how Shell is considering killing mass quantities of fish in the gulf just to make a few extra bucks. http://healthygulf.org/LNG.htm . I predict that left unregulated these sorts of practices will leave sharks as the only fish in the Gulf; more precisely, sharks and any other fish that like a little human blood on their teeth.