NIT Opinion –
This is simple, folks; you are too smart to be fooled by oatmeal-mouth’s bumbling, feverish attempt to clean up Eric Bookmeyer’s latest mess. Everyone knows, an insurance company is the LAST ONE TO PAY. Many of us have been through it; an accident damages our car, a storm blows off some shingles. We turn in our claim and the insurance company finds a loophole to avoid paying. They are notorious for it. They are highly-skilled at avoiding paying or paying THE LEAST AMOUNT POSSIBLE.
In this case – where Lionel Foster claimed that the mayor and council and their cronies had discriminated against him due to his age, his race as an African-American, and had retaliated against him as he fought to keep alive the city’s Human Rights agency – it is obvious to all that the insurance company wanted no part of this case inside a courtroom. They do not know the mayor; they do not know the council; they only knew the facts of the case and the depositions submitted; they had no bias other than to avoid bigger losses. Any reasonable person can see that the insurance company saw the writing on the wall. Some suit in an office made the call; he likely said to himself “We can pay $240,000 now and get back $75,000 from the people of Mason City, or risk it all and maybe pay $1 million or more.”
The suit wouldn’t risk it. He wouldn’t roll the dice. It was too ugly, he wanted out. Just remember that when you hear folks chit-chatting at the grocery store about this case. The insurance company was the true judge and jury in this lawsuit, and they ruled guilty against the defendants.
Mayor you know you are a bumbering idiot and a drunken loser that wants to ruin this city. Once a city of pride now a city of shame.
The council knew that Mr. Foster would file a complaint. They just wanted him gone and weighed the cost of paying him a settlement.
I like how the article failed to mention the thousands of dollars that the city forfeited from the feds because they cut the commission.
Also, it doesn’t say how these “backlogged” cases were closed.
@Mrs. Opinion-Very good points. Of course they will support the mayor. They are deeply in bed with him.
Some people are called a MANS MAN or A MAN amoung MEN.
This would be the fine Mr. Foster.
Skipper wouldn’t know this quality even if it appeared on the cover of the one sided paper he thinks he is a writer for.
Fantastic For Foster!
Get ready you sloppy ass talker and shameful skipper, it’s all gonna get you and your little dogs too.
Boy if that doesn’t look like 2 of three stooges, what a sorry site for 2 men. Waste!
Insurance company’s always, always, always, do what is best for the insurance company and their shareholders. The city had to sign off on it but I would be willing to bet they were told by the insurance company that it was the lessor of two evils. Skipper is a patsy for the mayor and nothing but a mouthpiece that can’t speak the truth.
The bottom line here is that Skipper is a buffoon as well as the mayor and entire city council. This is going to cost us big time again on our tax dollars again. The insurance company doesn’t do this as a gift, they will raise the rate. The mayor won’t have to pay, we will absorb it in our taxes for their stupidity. I for one am getting sick of their stupidity.
@John-Did you read the B.S. in the GLOB today where they were trying to justify the city losing this case. It was a pathetic excuse for a editorial. The GLOB is a major reason we have all these issues in this city.
LVS, I did not read their story but I can imagine. I don’t subscribe to that paper and save my free articles to read the obits that I am interested in so I can go to the funeral, that about sums it up for me reading the glob.
I don’t even read it for the obits anymore. I just look at the funeral home websites. They have all the obituaries listed. This is one thing I wish NIT would have on it’s site. Is the obit listings.