Comments on: State Farm and Scruggs shoving match over deposition scheduling (by NMC) http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: nmisscommenter http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5296 nmisscommenter Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:05:07 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5296 Thanks, Rog. I've been too busy with other stuff to pull that out of any of the various caches. I appreciate the links. Thanks, Rog. I’ve been too busy with other stuff to pull that out of any of the various caches. I appreciate the links.

]]> By: rog http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5295 rog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:50:54 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5295 Researcher, thanks for pointing out that Lecky King's "taking the 5th" video wasn't a Scruggs deposition. The fact that Scruggs published the video on his own Scruggs Katrina web site simply makes him all the more a scoundrel as I see it. Here's his page from the web archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20070718013018/http://scruggskatrinagroup.wordpress.com/ Here's the paragraph on this archived page which linked to the video on his web site: Even more shocking however is State Farm's response to these serious charges that are substantiated by its own emails. Instead of denying the charges, its PR "spokesman " says that the allegations are "old news. " If these charges are "old news, " then State Farm is in even more trouble than I thought. It is old news in that they are playing the same old scams and games with policyholders. This pattern of altering coercing and changing facts went on in other states, in other disasters, at other policyholder's expense. (See para. 73 of the complaint for how they did this in Oklahoma; and see Lecky King taking the Fifth repeatedly in proceedings.) We will bring to light just what has been going on for a long, long time. The video was published on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20070718013018/http://www.scruggskatrinagroup.com/vids/lecky_medium.mov which was not archived. Researcher, thanks for pointing out that Lecky King’s “taking the 5th” video wasn’t a Scruggs deposition. The fact that Scruggs published the video on his own Scruggs Katrina web site simply makes him all the more a scoundrel as I see it.

Here’s his page from the web archives:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070718013018/http://scruggskatrinagroup.wordpress.com/

Here’s the paragraph on this archived page which linked to the video on his web site:

Even more shocking however is State Farm’s response to these serious charges that are substantiated by its own emails. Instead of denying the charges, its PR "spokesman " says that the allegations are "old news. " If these charges are "old news, " then State Farm is in even more trouble than I thought. It is old news in that they are playing the same old scams and games with policyholders. This pattern of altering coercing and changing facts went on in other states, in other disasters, at other policyholder’s expense. (See para. 73 of the complaint for how they did this in Oklahoma; and see Lecky King taking the Fifth repeatedly in proceedings.) We will bring to light just what has been going on for a long, long time.

The video was published on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20070718013018/http://www.scruggskatrinagroup.com/vids/lecky_medium.mov

which was not archived.

]]> By: Researcher http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5292 Researcher Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:18:34 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5292 This is my third time to post this, but I do not believe that the Lecky King video that was on the internet was from a deposition by Scruggs. The only video I have seen was the Watkins trial in Oklahoma. She took the 5th because of Katrina investigations. Attorney Jeff Marr was asking about Haag Engineering and other firms and State Farm employees who worked both the Oklahoma tornadoes and Hurricane Katrina. SKG may have posted it on their website, but so did the Sun Herald at the time. I believe SKG did have depositions in which King and Lisa Wachter took the 5th, but I have never seen videos of them online. This is my third time to post this, but I do not believe that the Lecky King video that was on the internet was from a deposition by Scruggs. The only video I have seen was the Watkins trial in Oklahoma. She took the 5th because of Katrina investigations. Attorney Jeff Marr was asking about Haag Engineering and other firms and State Farm employees who worked both the Oklahoma tornadoes and Hurricane Katrina.
SKG may have posted it on their website, but so did the Sun Herald at the time.
I believe SKG did have depositions in which King and Lisa Wachter took the 5th, but I have never seen videos of them online.

]]> By: nmisscommenter http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5291 nmisscommenter Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:10:56 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5291 I think the link is fixed now, btw. I think the link is fixed now, btw.

]]> By: boxcar willie http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5290 boxcar willie Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:55:35 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5290 Note to Judges. In the future please make your instructions crystal clear to any of Scruggs attorneys or the same type of pissing match will ensue after every motion. I wonder how many depositions Scruggs has demanded over the years? Did he put up with the kind of crap he is dishing out in this case? Note to Judges. In the future please make your instructions crystal clear to any of Scruggs attorneys or the same type of pissing match will ensue after every motion. I wonder how many depositions Scruggs has demanded over the years? Did he put up with the kind of crap he is dishing out in this case?

]]> By: iratetoday http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5289 iratetoday Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:52:04 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5289 "Whatever time the deposition consumes will be the result of the question, the statement of privilege, and Mr. Scruggs's statement that he will follow his lawyer's advice. If State Farm's counsel wishes to prolong that process, it can be for no other reason than harassment. If the Court is inclined to enter an order at this time, this Court should order that once Mr. Scruggs has asserted his privileges in response to the first question, that State Farm counsel lists all of its questions at once, and permit Mr. Scruggs to refuse to answer them all at once. That process cannot possibly take more than one hour." Has Keker lost his mind? The law unequivocally does not allow one to do this. You have to invioke the 5th to each question. “Whatever time the deposition consumes will be the result of the question, the
statement of privilege, and Mr. Scruggs’s statement that he will follow his lawyer’s advice. If
State Farm’s counsel wishes to prolong that process, it can be for no other reason than
harassment. If the Court is inclined to enter an order at this time, this Court should order that
once Mr. Scruggs has asserted his privileges in response to the first question, that State Farm
counsel lists all of its questions at once, and permit Mr. Scruggs to refuse to answer them all at
once. That process cannot possibly take more than one hour.”

Has Keker lost his mind? The law unequivocally does not allow one to do this. You have to invioke the 5th to each question.

]]> By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5294 lotus Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:24:01 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5294 Gah, wotta time for technical difficulties! Gah, wotta time for technical difficulties!

]]> By: iratetoday http://www.folo.us/2008/02/04/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5293 iratetoday Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:12:22 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/state-farm-and-scruggs-shoving-match-over-deposition-scheduling-by-nmc/#comment-5293 The 2nd pdf is not coming up. The 2nd pdf is not coming up.

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