The governor gets to appoint the replacement Senator. The Gov is Republican and there are two Republican representatives in waiting, Wicker and Pickering. You will recall Pickering’s father was rejected by the Senate for confirmation as a federal judge.
Trent Lott is republican, the governor is republican, and in their part of the woods they all sleep in the same bed. Do you really believe the republican governor would appoint a republican who was not their lapdog? To appoint a democrat would get all their election funds cut off by the republican central committee.
Don’t count Uncle Dickie out yet. He’s sharper and smarter than any US Attorney or Justice Department employee. He pulled Big Tobacco down by the short hairs and shaved State Farm’s belly with a rusty razor. Wait and see what happens.
All are republicans, but Trent will not be the one to choose. Barbour will. He was chair of RNC, so I don’t really see him taking marching oders from Lott. As said before, word already out it will be one of the two Republican reps.
Katrina Suvivor:
Your folksy demeanor is not lost. However, I happen to agree, all appears bad for Scruggs now, but I wouldn’t bet against him. Not that I agree with him.
I just wonder, if the allegations are true, whether this was the first time that Scruggs and his boys pulled some strings with the judges. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if other lawyers in the state try similar stunts.
Kim, if you have to ask why he would bribe a judge when he has all the evidence to win every case, then it’s clear you haven’t even read what this case about.
Go back and read the article before you start making wild statements.
Scruggs and party were sued by attorneys alleging he was stiffing them out of legal fees owed for work they did on a case.
A Scruggs cohort offered the Judge $50,000 to rule in their favor. the Judge turned them in to the feds. who did a bit of wiretapping to help build their case.
According to the Wall Street Journal who has studied the indictment, “Scruggs is going to need a very good attorney’.
Regarding selling policies with no coverage, presumably you are talking about the homeowners policies with concurrent causation clauses. These policies state that if you first have windstorm damage, then have flood damage, you no longer have windstorm coverage.
I agree with you 100%, this is one of the most despicable practices insurers could ever pull on their clients. And it was approved by state regulators in 48 states! Why? They are supposed to guard against this kind of thing.
As far as I know, only State Farm and Nationwide used this language, there may be others that I don’t know about.
Despicable is the only thing you can say about this.
Re Trent Lott’s little story, he bought homeowners insurance from State Farm, and bought flood insurance with a much lower limit, even though his house was very close to the water.
After Katrina, his house was a slab. Pretty good evidence of storm surge damage.
He admitted it was a flood loss by filing for policy limits under the flood policy. Then, because he tried to save a few bucks by not insuring to value for flood, he turned to State Farm who pointed out that flood was excluded. He never tried to collect for windstorm per se.
In this case, State Farm was correct, and Lott was trying to commit fraud (does it run in the family?).
He went into a rage and vowed to “bring the industry down!” Instead, he is retiring before the end of the year so he can take a job lobbying congress. He has to wait two years if he retires after 12/31.
Lott claims he can’t read and understand the flood exclusion so State Farm should pay him.
Lott is an attorney (don’t they teach attorney’s to read in Mississippi?) and homeowner’s policies are written on a 9th grade reading level. I’m not even going to comment on that.
Homeowners policies are boring as hell to read, but anyone with a high school education can understand them, but not attorney Trent Lott.
So he uses his position in government to try to force the insurance company to pay his claim, which is clearly excluded.
All he had to do was to buy some excess flood insurance, so his home was properly covered, but he tried to be so smart, like too many insureds, and underinsure to save a few bucks. Then, when he got caught short, it wasn’t his fault!
I hate to say it because I think what they did with the concurrent causation clause was worse than despicable, but I’m on State Farm’s side relative to Trent Lott. I’m sorry they settled with him (undisclosed amount).
Thank you… I never knew what this was about…and you are right, I should have checked the story out before I commented.
I retained Scruggs and kept calling to check the status. No one would return my call & no one was available.
It was After Judge Senter’s verdict….
that Scruggs Secretary informed me that my suit was not included in the 630.
She said they did not receive it in time and that is a lie.
I have emails that confirm Scruggs receiving my contract along with photo evidence.
I was really upset but I knew better than to even think about going up against Scruggs.
I needed the Judicial system to protect me from a pervert sex offender that was stalking me. They made me the villian & treated me worst than the stalker.
I caught a Prosecutor obstructing Justice, tampering with evidence and throwing cases out to help the criminals attorney.
When I requested a special prosecutor the Judge threw me out of the courthouse.
15 Police Reports filed, all cases were thrown out for lack of evidence…..
I had sworn affidavits from police officers, forensic evidence, photos & videos of the stalker exposing himself on a daily basis.
They black balled my name & I think that is why I got shut out of Scruggs 630.
They are close friends with Hood….
I’ve never been arrested or in trouble.
Contact me, I have all the files…
You would not believe it! KDNOLA@AOL.COM
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Concerned:
The governor gets to appoint the replacement Senator. The Gov is Republican and there are two Republican representatives in waiting, Wicker and Pickering. You will recall Pickering’s father was rejected by the Senate for confirmation as a federal judge.
Trent Lott is republican, the governor is republican, and in their part of the woods they all sleep in the same bed. Do you really believe the republican governor would appoint a republican who was not their lapdog? To appoint a democrat would get all their election funds cut off by the republican central committee.
Don’t count Uncle Dickie out yet. He’s sharper and smarter than any US Attorney or Justice Department employee. He pulled Big Tobacco down by the short hairs and shaved State Farm’s belly with a rusty razor. Wait and see what happens.
All are republicans, but Trent will not be the one to choose. Barbour will. He was chair of RNC, so I don’t really see him taking marching oders from Lott. As said before, word already out it will be one of the two Republican reps.
Katrina Suvivor:
Your folksy demeanor is not lost. However, I happen to agree, all appears bad for Scruggs now, but I wouldn’t bet against him. Not that I agree with him.
Let’s do the math, Scruggs stands to “share” as little as he can of $26.5 million in fees BUT he is only going to pay the judge $50,000?
The “Federal Judge” was insulted. To take a bribe after attaining a federal judge position, the numbers have to be much larger.
If Scruggs was not so cheap, the judge may not have busted him. The liberals beating up the liberals. Sounds Great!
“Scrubb’s” is only sharing less than 1/10th of one percent of the total fees? If I was the judge, I would have busted him too!
I just wonder, if the allegations are true, whether this was the first time that Scruggs and his boys pulled some strings with the judges. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if other lawyers in the state try similar stunts.
Kim, if you have to ask why he would bribe a judge when he has all the evidence to win every case, then it’s clear you haven’t even read what this case about.
Go back and read the article before you start making wild statements.
Scruggs and party were sued by attorneys alleging he was stiffing them out of legal fees owed for work they did on a case.
A Scruggs cohort offered the Judge $50,000 to rule in their favor. the Judge turned them in to the feds. who did a bit of wiretapping to help build their case.
According to the Wall Street Journal who has studied the indictment, “Scruggs is going to need a very good attorney’.
Regarding selling policies with no coverage, presumably you are talking about the homeowners policies with concurrent causation clauses. These policies state that if you first have windstorm damage, then have flood damage, you no longer have windstorm coverage.
I agree with you 100%, this is one of the most despicable practices insurers could ever pull on their clients. And it was approved by state regulators in 48 states! Why? They are supposed to guard against this kind of thing.
As far as I know, only State Farm and Nationwide used this language, there may be others that I don’t know about.
Despicable is the only thing you can say about this.
Re Trent Lott’s little story, he bought homeowners insurance from State Farm, and bought flood insurance with a much lower limit, even though his house was very close to the water.
After Katrina, his house was a slab. Pretty good evidence of storm surge damage.
He admitted it was a flood loss by filing for policy limits under the flood policy. Then, because he tried to save a few bucks by not insuring to value for flood, he turned to State Farm who pointed out that flood was excluded. He never tried to collect for windstorm per se.
In this case, State Farm was correct, and Lott was trying to commit fraud (does it run in the family?).
He went into a rage and vowed to “bring the industry down!” Instead, he is retiring before the end of the year so he can take a job lobbying congress. He has to wait two years if he retires after 12/31.
Lott claims he can’t read and understand the flood exclusion so State Farm should pay him.
Lott is an attorney (don’t they teach attorney’s to read in Mississippi?) and homeowner’s policies are written on a 9th grade reading level. I’m not even going to comment on that.
Homeowners policies are boring as hell to read, but anyone with a high school education can understand them, but not attorney Trent Lott.
So he uses his position in government to try to force the insurance company to pay his claim, which is clearly excluded.
All he had to do was to buy some excess flood insurance, so his home was properly covered, but he tried to be so smart, like too many insureds, and underinsure to save a few bucks. Then, when he got caught short, it wasn’t his fault!
I hate to say it because I think what they did with the concurrent causation clause was worse than despicable, but I’m on State Farm’s side relative to Trent Lott. I’m sorry they settled with him (undisclosed amount).
Thank you… I never knew what this was about…and you are right, I should have checked the story out before I commented.
I retained Scruggs and kept calling to check the status. No one would return my call & no one was available.
It was After Judge Senter’s verdict….
that Scruggs Secretary informed me that my suit was not included in the 630.
She said they did not receive it in time and that is a lie.
I have emails that confirm Scruggs receiving my contract along with photo evidence.
I was really upset but I knew better than to even think about going up against Scruggs.
I needed the Judicial system to protect me from a pervert sex offender that was stalking me. They made me the villian & treated me worst than the stalker.
I caught a Prosecutor obstructing Justice, tampering with evidence and throwing cases out to help the criminals attorney.
When I requested a special prosecutor the Judge threw me out of the courthouse.
15 Police Reports filed, all cases were thrown out for lack of evidence…..
I had sworn affidavits from police officers, forensic evidence, photos & videos of the stalker exposing himself on a daily basis.
They black balled my name & I think that is why I got shut out of Scruggs 630.
They are close friends with Hood….
I’ve never been arrested or in trouble.
Contact me, I have all the files…
You would not believe it!
KDNOLA@AOL.COM
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