I have worked insurance defense in Los Angeles for twenty years; three as Corporate litigation defense supervisor for Farmers, and I was suprised to see a blanket slander of our judiciary. If ATRA knows of a judge who is a problem, why don’t they use the regular channels to get him/her off the bench? Use the appeals process to overturn the ruling. Oh, you say they’re ALL no good, huh!?!? Sore loosers is what I read between the lines, loosers who blame everyone but themselves for poor corporate oversight and management. That’s what happens when you hire ‘yes men,’ inside legal counsel of that character included. Its so much easier to rant and rave and blame others than to reform your own operations, or at least appraise in-house counsel before you act. I’m sick of being an “I told you so” to corporations and getting waylaid for rendering an opinion warning of pitfalls and how to avoid them and being told I’m a ‘chicken little.’ Now ATRA is the ‘chicken little’ of the judicial system.
It’s good to know the attorneys have no complaints about the Los Angeles law enviromnent.
I suppose you have no trouble living in a illegal-immigrant-gang-banger infested, gridlocked, bankrupt and Socialist city.
My guess is you’re either making so much money you can afford to send your children to private schools and live in a gate guarded community-or your just a commie with no kids who hates America & just doesn’t care about our future.
As far as insurance companies rolling over and paying for claims they shouldn’t-you can’t blame them not wanting to “roll the dice” with the OJ jury, even if they win they still have years of appeals & further litigation.
OK, its not heaven, but you don’t change the Common Law of England to satisfy people. Its a comprehensive system. Take Joint and Several Liability. The rich and powerful use the weak and poor like and hand in glove to steal – civil larceny. They ‘discard’ the ‘glove’ to the system and keep the loot and are immune without Joint and Several Liability. Deep pockets?
The Republic of Santa Monica is no more; they re-drew the Court’s district lines so that the jury pool is more representative; you can live as far away as 20 miles, which is more than an hour driving to S.M. from the Valley. Yech.
‘Roll the dice’ is not a term any insurer utters; that’s stupid Plainitff attorneys talking who don’t know why the claim is payable and we don’t tell’m why. Cheap insurers use out-of-house defense who will do cartwheels to keep the business and rack up billable hours becausee claim examiners don’t know who to believe and can’t do the work – underqualified, or they can’t make financial objectives, so they fake it and cover with the excuse they don’t want to roll the dice. Good legal counsel gives a coverage opinion that will stick. Bad management wants to meet their financial U/W objectives regardless of bad faith consequences.
If any have a complaint, let them name names of Judges they think are not qualified, are unfair or disobey the law. They already have a vice grip on political appointments and the usual tendency is to gravitate to incompetence and obediance rather than quality but fair; i.e. Judge Clarence Thomas. Look at the judges Gov. Dukmejian appointed; start at the top – Armand Arabian was a Sup. Ct. Justice and when he retired, no law firm wanted him! They usually get the primo jobs as partners in the best national firms when they step down. I’d be happier if everyone backed off and put fair, reasonable, educated and experienced judges on the bench and the insurers gave more credance to their legal staffs’ opinions and direction.
I have worked insurance defense in Los Angeles for twenty years; three as Corporate litigation defense supervisor for Farmers, and I was suprised to see a blanket slander of our judiciary. If ATRA knows of a judge who is a problem, why don’t they use the regular channels to get him/her off the bench? Use the appeals process to overturn the ruling. Oh, you say they’re ALL no good, huh!?!? Sore loosers is what I read between the lines, loosers who blame everyone but themselves for poor corporate oversight and management. That’s what happens when you hire ‘yes men,’ inside legal counsel of that character included. Its so much easier to rant and rave and blame others than to reform your own operations, or at least appraise in-house counsel before you act. I’m sick of being an “I told you so” to corporations and getting waylaid for rendering an opinion warning of pitfalls and how to avoid them and being told I’m a ‘chicken little.’ Now ATRA is the ‘chicken little’ of the judicial system.
It’s good to know the attorneys have no complaints about the Los Angeles law enviromnent.
I suppose you have no trouble living in a illegal-immigrant-gang-banger infested, gridlocked, bankrupt and Socialist city.
My guess is you’re either making so much money you can afford to send your children to private schools and live in a gate guarded community-or your just a commie with no kids who hates America & just doesn’t care about our future.
As far as insurance companies rolling over and paying for claims they shouldn’t-you can’t blame them not wanting to “roll the dice” with the OJ jury, even if they win they still have years of appeals & further litigation.
OK, its not heaven, but you don’t change the Common Law of England to satisfy people. Its a comprehensive system. Take Joint and Several Liability. The rich and powerful use the weak and poor like and hand in glove to steal – civil larceny. They ‘discard’ the ‘glove’ to the system and keep the loot and are immune without Joint and Several Liability. Deep pockets?
The Republic of Santa Monica is no more; they re-drew the Court’s district lines so that the jury pool is more representative; you can live as far away as 20 miles, which is more than an hour driving to S.M. from the Valley. Yech.
‘Roll the dice’ is not a term any insurer utters; that’s stupid Plainitff attorneys talking who don’t know why the claim is payable and we don’t tell’m why. Cheap insurers use out-of-house defense who will do cartwheels to keep the business and rack up billable hours becausee claim examiners don’t know who to believe and can’t do the work – underqualified, or they can’t make financial objectives, so they fake it and cover with the excuse they don’t want to roll the dice. Good legal counsel gives a coverage opinion that will stick. Bad management wants to meet their financial U/W objectives regardless of bad faith consequences.
If any have a complaint, let them name names of Judges they think are not qualified, are unfair or disobey the law. They already have a vice grip on political appointments and the usual tendency is to gravitate to incompetence and obediance rather than quality but fair; i.e. Judge Clarence Thomas. Look at the judges Gov. Dukmejian appointed; start at the top – Armand Arabian was a Sup. Ct. Justice and when he retired, no law firm wanted him! They usually get the primo jobs as partners in the best national firms when they step down. I’d be happier if everyone backed off and put fair, reasonable, educated and experienced judges on the bench and the insurers gave more credance to their legal staffs’ opinions and direction.