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.
