That was quick! Karen Nelson:
PASCAGOULA — A Jackson County jury on Friday morning awarded Adm. James W. Lisanby and his wife, Gladys, about $900,000 in damages in their case against USAA insurance company.
The jury returned the verdict at about 9:30 a.m. today.
The parties will return to the courtroom Monday to argue possible punitive damages.
(h/t amicus)
I stand corrected. Ouch!
Title Needs to say USAA
FBR, “Standpoint is everything.” That jury’s standpoint is Pascagoula three years after Katrina.
The jury also deliberated for a few hours yesterday evening as well.
sop
Two years or so for the appeal to be decided, I would guess … unless USAA gets a huge punitives award too & decides to settle.
Gack, amicus, thanks! Fixed it. Mind-petal running on too many channels right now.
Based on the these results it is time to settle cases.
Wow…
Scruggs gets 5 plus a $250K fine
Sop81_1 is that true? Scruggs go tthe max?
Per Anita Lee reporting for the S/H. Also on WLOX as we speak.
Did anyone *really* think he wouldn’t get the max? 5 years is such a sweet deal for all the stuff he was charged with.
My only glimmer of suspense is about Zach.
It appears the jurors beleived the recollections of the Lopers and the Pat Keene’s of the coast more than they did the “OnTheScene” reports. The jury apparently didn’t beleive the “wind didn’t blow in the 1600 block of Washington Avenue.”
So at least 14 people were impressed by the wind; the 12 jurors, Steve Loper and Pat Keene.
Their own experts destroy their credibility. I am repeatedly amazed that insurance defense lawyers think that they can put these same engineers from Texas Tech or the U of Florida on the stand who try to tell coastal juries and judges that the winds did not exceed 90 mph.
An expert who says the winds were not strong enough to cause any structural damage at all will never convince a jury of people who personally know of many homes that suffered structural damage from winds.
Rather than offer proof that the damage was caused by flooding, they try to argue that the damage could not have been caused by wind. That argument deserves to lose.
It will be interesting to see how the MS Supreme Court treats the appeal, unless they settle as Anderson @ 4 suggests. Knowing the Lisanbys now as we do, I suspect the settlement number won’t be low.