Bailey Challenges Scruggs: ‘Put Up or Shut Up!’

March 20, 2006

  • March 20, 2006 at 10:03 am
    C. E. Odom says:
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    Dickie doesn\’t need the money. To suggest that money\’s his motive is ludicrous.

    Anybody who has been around the block a time or two knows that insurance companies are experts in looking after insurance companies.

    Scruggs\’ asbestos lawsuits, in my view, were ridiculous and unethical. But he hit a good lick in going after Big Tobacco. It was a good lick for everybody but Big Tobacco.

  • March 20, 2006 at 10:16 am
    C. E. Odom says:
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    Jefferson County, Mississippi was the judicial hellhole, not the entire state.
    That problem has been corrected by the state legislature.

    Jefferson, btw, is about 90% \”minorities.\” The jurors got a cut of the award. Many of them are now vacationing at Club Fed.

    Makes me uncomfy to admit that the feds actually did something right, but in this instance they did for sure. They also put Edwin Edwards in a place he thought he\’d never be. And big crook Fastow gets a slap on the wrist.

    Another problem is tort lawyers. One such incumbant just got unelected to the Supreme Court. Another is awaiting trial for lawyer mischief.

    The game is on: Tort lawyers vs. Chambers of Commerce. Both are well-funded.

  • March 20, 2006 at 10:58 am
    Mike from Boston says:
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    Sorry, C.E., you\’re absolutely right, it wasn\’t the whole state, I should have been more accurate!

  • March 20, 2006 at 11:29 am
    Anonymous says:
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    ah yes, mississippi, where LOTS of roads and bridges are named after convicted felons. Im STILL glad I left that state. The monied people act stupid, and lead the poor and/or ignorant down the same path.

  • March 20, 2006 at 1:53 am
    drudy says:
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    screaming and yelling, is this gonna get good or what. we\’ll see what the court decides.hmmm, the atty. who got the tobacco companies,wouldn\’t count him out.by the way all of you agents and claims reps. who are wanna be lawyers,a friend of mine who has over 30 years experience in claims advised me that many times the companies went into court with a foolproof case came out having to pay.

  • March 21, 2006 at 2:53 am
    Mrs. L. Beck says:
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    Does Dicky Scruggs scare you? Believe me, if he says he has the info, he has it!
    As for getting your feelings hurt over his comments, well, if the shoe fits, wear it, you scumbag insurance executives and minions.
    You don\’t believe your precious, treacerous lying industry could possibly do such wrong????
    I talk to a lot of people around my home town on the MS. Gulf and all along the region. It IS amazing! Those that had flood insurance are being told their damage was from wind. Those that had wind coverage are being told it was all water. Even on houses that are so obliberated no one but eye witnesses (and there are very many) can attest as to what really destroyed the home, the 2 dispute over what caused the damage/loss. Those of us who pay a for a hurricane rider and have a hurricane deductable seem to have an uninterpretable wind storm exclusion hidden deep inside our legalese policies. Pray tell, what exactly is a hurricane but a big-butt wind storm???????? So what exactly is that extra hurricane deductable for if I have a wind storm exclusion???? After plodding through my sodden policy, I\’ve come to the conclusion that basically I have been paying for nothing at all! Seems one part cancels out the other.
    I challenge you to come see for yourself!
    In MISSISSIPPI-you know, we actually got HIT by a hurricane and freak tidal wave, not just flooded like New Orleans because corrupt politicians allowed the levees to deteriorate over the last 30 years.
    Talk to the PEOPLE ON THE GROUND-literally. You know, those still living in tents or cars, trying to fix $70K damage with less than $500, replace an $8,500 roof with the \”insurance valued\” price of $3,500, replace a $12,000 car with the meager $6,900 offered-again based on (what I am convinced of is) insurance-owned \”independent adjusters\” valuations, waste days of your life TRYING to get through to the good hands/ good neighbor/we\’re on your side folks who put you on hold so long, it automatically hangs up, locate insulation and sheetrock, reliable roofers… the list goes on and on.
    If it were not for the multitude of VOLUNTEERS giving of their time, money and selves to help us, we would still be in Third World Nation condition. That\’s how long it is taking you folks to dole out the little $100 checks here and there.
    Here we sit, 6 months later….while you still collect my premiums every month on an uninhabitable shell of a house and the 2 ratty cars I was able to buy with proceeds from my 5 fully insured and mostly paid for automobiles.
    Did you have a nice vacation this year? Consider coming down here to give us a hand? Or did you sun on a tropical beach or ski on a pristine snow covered mountain instead…all paid for from the profits of our misery?
    Geez, and you wonder why we bad mouth you?
    Even Congressman Gene Taylor (D-Miss, 5th District) said there should be a national registry of Insurance Executives so we know who lives next door to us, just like we have a national registry of sex offenders.
    The responsibility to fix this lies within the industry (Insurance) that has been bilking people forever to financially protect us from just such catastrophes. Not with the Federal Government (but thanks, FEMA, for the trailer anyway…even if it does leak and nothing works in it). Nor does it lie on the shoulders of the many who have burdened themseves with caring for us with their own time, money, and resources.
    Dicky Scruggs and Volunteers, you are my heroes!!!!
    (BTW-I am NOT a client of Mr. Scruggs, nor do I even know him or any of his employees or associates.)
    Insurance folks….make sure those asbestos suits are in your caskets. You might be needing them in the hereafter!
    God Bless You All!
    ps- I read all the comments posted to date before leaving mine.
    I would just like to clarify that I am a not your \”typical, ignorant, uneducated, white trash Mississipian\” as the media portays us all to be. I am a law-abiding, middle aged, professional heathcare provider, and have NO faith whatsoever in the insurance industry. If I could self-insure, I would. (Mortgage requirements, unfortunately, mandate I must carry insurance…for all the good THAT does!) I would have had more money to make repairs with now if I had just put those premiums in MY bank account instead of yours. And as soon as this house is paid for, that is exactly what I intend to do. We are already self-insuring the autos we own outright, except for state mandated minimum liability requirements.
    I think you had all better take a long, hard look at yourselves and what you are doing. Is the greed and love of money really all that matters to you?
    Or does doing the right thing even count anymore?
    Signed,
    Disillusioned in Bay St. Louis, MS

  • March 20, 2006 at 3:04 am
    Sam says:
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    \’Dickie\’ Scruggs is the one who filed the suit. He is the one that has the burden of proof. He is the one that has the obligation to \’put up\’ his witnesses so that they can be questioned under oath regarding the practices alleged by Scruggs. I agree with article. He needs to put up the witnesses to support his point, and if they don\’t exist, then he needs to be discredited. Any lawsuit, should be tried on its merits, not in the press.

  • March 20, 2006 at 3:59 am
    JR says:
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    Scruggs thinks the only way to try a case is in the media. He is only about $$$$$$ and publicity. He never wants the case to
    be tried by the jury only. PR! PR! PR! It is his venture capitalist mode.

  • March 20, 2006 at 4:06 am
    Mike from Boston says:
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    Dickie\’s at it again. This guy is unbelievable. Give him any excuse to make money playing on fears and emotions of juries to overcome logic and he lunges for it like a weasel into a pile of raw meat.

    The sad thing is, he could win. Anyone who disagrees with me obviously wasn\’t around in the 80\’s when the courts interpreted the phrase \”sudden and accidental\” to describe toxic waste spills that were covered by insurance to include the slow seepage of waste from landfills over 30 years or more as \”sudden and accidental.\” Boy, the industry sure wasn\’t expecting that.

    The nauseating thing is lawyers like Scruggs (and his buddy, former Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards) make themselves a fortune by twisting and distorting the law, hurting others (society) to enrich themselves. In biology, we call such creatures parasites. To do this, they rely on their key \”judicial hellhole\” states such as Mississippi. I sure hope he doesn\’t get away with it again.

  • March 20, 2006 at 4:07 am
    Thing Is says:
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    From what I\’ve read, Scruggs has already indicated he fully intends to \”put up\” once the data is sufficiently gathered together. Bailey\’s shooting his mouth off just as bad, with invectives and rhetoric that doesn\’t have much more solidity than what Scruggs has said so far, but not yet backed up.

    So Bailey would have worn a wire as an engineer? That\’s nice, but it doesn\’t mean that all actual engineers would have…



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