Pigs at RNC buy insurance
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 23:51.
unbelievable. the pigs bought insurance, means litigating these claims to death. guranteed a million dollars worth of defense coverage. first million 3 in claims is covered by insurance policy. no accountability what so ever. cops saying they don't know there's insurance backing their tactics, that's bullshiiite. meaning, you sue these pigs for 1983 excessive force, false arrest violations, guess what, their insurance lexington will hire a mainstream law firm to defend the claims and or litigate them to death. meaning, the taxpayers don't foot a dime. the cops have free reign to completely do what ever it is they damn please. good luck to those facing charges or thinking that there might be some shred of accountability months or years from now, that's just a farce. this insurance company took the 1.3 million and invested it. so if they pay less than that on lawsuits defending the cops, they win. its legalized gambling with free speech being the gamble.
http://kstp.com/article/Pstories/S565922.shtml
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Taxpayers should be off the hook for any damages stemming from claims of police misconduct related to the Republican National Convention under a first-of-its-kind agreement.
The deal required the Republican Party's host committee to buy insurance covering up to $10 million in damages and unlimited legal costs for law enforcement officials accused of brutality, violating civil rights and other misconduct.
Other cities who hosted conventions in recent years - including Denver, Boston, New York and Philadelphia - either covered those costs from their general budgets or used tax money to buy insurance policies.
But St. Paul officials, led by Mayor Chris Coleman, insisted the committee use its private donations to purchase the insurance policy. They had some leverage because the party had named St. Paul as the location for the convention before striking the city services agreement in January 2007.
"The negotiating team, with the mayor's encouragement, took the firm ground that we had to have the police professional liability insurance paid for by someone other than city taxpayers," said City Attorney John Choi. "Ultimately, and reluctantly on the host committee's part, we were able to secure that."
The deal could save taxpayers millions. Police have arrested nearly 300 people, and many protesters are threatening lawsuits. New York City still faces dozens from some of the 1,000 people arrested at the 2004 GOP convention.
In St. Paul, some critics say the agreement has only encouraged police to use aggressive tactics knowing they won't have to pay damages.
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policy and agreements oughta be discoverable
the insurance policy and all of the MOU's should be discoverable. This is legalized police brutality. those who read this and speak with anyone arrested, pass along that they should file motions to discover these memorandums of understanding with the policing agencies providing the militarization.
the one thing that might not be covered by the policy would be punitive damages awarded. after thinking about it some, general and special damages will be covered by this policy, but the punitive damages awarded likely aren't covered by this policy. oh boy, some small accountability. first they have to get the claims denied, survive summary judgment motions filed by defense counsel and then they have to try their cases. will take years to resolve, mean while, lexington took the cash and has invested it since april. they won't start paying out on the premium paid for another few months and then it'll tap into their capital made off this policy.
fricking scam for the constitution, what little is left these days....
pigs at RNC buy insurance
Since when does anyone that reads this BS really believes in the constitution? Seems you only want to have things your way. Free speech? you would deny the nazi's and the KKK. everyone is protected.
look at any subrogation clauses...
and also look to see if Lexington has agreed to defend any of its insureds in court... If so, this could be a big loser for Lexington. A premium paid of only a couple of million dollars will get eaten up really quickly, even if Lexington has lots of in-house counsel. The thing to do is to file lots of lawsuits arising out of different transactions so they can't be combined into a class action, then to have good enough facts so they can't be dismissed on a summary judgment motion - that would be a big hit for Lexington. It might be useful to see if Lexington is publicly traded, then look on the EDGAR database at sec.gov for their records (and capitalization). Might be interesting if the insurance company has some non-performing real estate assets whose valuation might have changed recently...