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Gatorubet

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  1. California has a state procedure version of the MDL federal procedure. I believe they defined it as a “complex, civil action”, but it works like an MDL -with the case consolidated into a judicial council coordinated proceeding.(JCCP). This allows for coordinated pre-trial discovery and motions and Bellwether trials. Off the top of my head I think you guys have a two year SOL, so I agree with brisket that it is easy to get one of your buddies to file your claim and then sit around for years, waiting for some resolution. But the problem with mass resolutions of MDL type cases are that there are never or almost never any penalty damages awarded for bad faith. While not a class action, the same issues of commonality and a typicality predominate. Not every insurance policy has the exact same language, not every insurance policy was issued at the same time, not every claimant has the same damage facts, etc. Trust me, there are enough plaintiff lawyers out there right now figuring out who they can sue and what they can sue for. But I would recommend getting legal council to make sure you don’t screw up some contractual duty, or otherwise prejudice your case before you get a chance to dig into the merits. The most important reason to do that is so you don’t go crazy thinking about this stuff every day. I am not a California lawyer, but from now on, do not have a single communication with your insurer that is not in writing somehow. And always make sure you have several estimates for the repair or other remediation work to submit timely. Always give your insurer the opportunity to do the wrong thing, with that wrong thing being totally documented. Good luck, buddy. ps, I’m fairly positive that this ground has been plowed before, and the interpretation of those fire remediation language issues has been discussed in a lot of prior cases.
  2. Bear flavor approval on track.
  3. Well, if you wanna be a dictator, you need to instigate more lethal terrorist attacks on America. Because you need to be attacked before you can declare Marshal Law. Duh. “Only I can protect you…”
  4. Prolly out crime-ing…
  5. Hear me out. I think Kyle needs to be boots on the ground as an MP in occupied Gaza. His unique combination of skills (warrior and cultural sensitivity) makes him a natural to patrol the dark streets.
  6. About time to scotch and vape and watch Auburn take it to the dirt burglars. All them Auburn boys is tall…
  7. The orange shit stain has that natural standing lean forward thing going on. It’s like he’s always prepared to cheat off somebody’s paper.
  8. Thank you. Fuckers would not go away - until they did. I will take that W after the Tennessee loss, and I was nervous as hell the first half
  9. World’s people? That sounds DEI as fuck.
  10. I know an attorney named Mr. Justice.
  11. True story. Senator Smoot of Utah introduced a bill to give my great-great grandmother a pension for her husband’s role as a veteran of the Civil War. He (my g-g-gf) obviously forgot to tell his wife something, as it turns out he deserted from the infantry, returned to Michigan, and then accepted a $ bonus to join the cavalry (record keeping was almost not existent, so he was successfully able to do this. I visited the national archives and viewed his actual civil war enlistment records in Washington DC a decade ago). He deserted again when the cavalry was called to duty in Tennessee. He eventually joined the Mormon church and headed out to Idaho to Homestead. Senator Smoot was not the smartest man.
  12. Perhaps it’s time for a military parade to celebrate the victory? Generalissimo Trumpo is probably right in the middle of fitting his new uniform.
  13. it just dawned on me that having my roof replaced in October probably save me a ton of money. And a very experienced Hispanic work crew doing the great work (for the Canadian company owners, as it turns out, in this dada-esque world)) might not be happening right now.
  14. if a post could be described simply by an image.
  15. We need to be careful. There is an excellent chance that the Canadian Mounted Police will strike in the dead of winter - when the rivers are frozen over - and will disguise themselves with American hockey jerseys to enter our houses at night (after politely knocking) and then fill up our breath holes with moss and mud while we sleep.
  16. our fearless leader has a strong tariff game.
  17. I don’t know, I’d be tempted to poke her eye with my finger and yell, “Say it! Say, ‘I yam what I yam…”
  18. “God wants his little men to lose their fingers in the factory spindles, because then they won’t be tempted to put them in a girl’s’ devil orifice when they get older.”
  19. And then there is this: if my current State Farm homeowners insurer ever pulls out of the state or drops me, I will pay the house off just so I won’t have to have some ridiculously overpriced homeowners insurance of last resort to placate my mortgage lender. I will look around and buy some relatively cheap fire insurance. I have fixed my attic to Miami Dade code and put on a new roof with cat 3 shingles and extra nails per shingle. I paid surprisingly little to have them put that waterproof membrane across the entirety of the roof and not just the valleys. So if I no longer have insurance for hurricanes, I can put 3 or 4K in CDs every year so that if I do get hit by a hurricane that causes some damage, I will pay for it myself. i’m willing to risk the tornado threat, which is not nonexistent, but pretty damn close. i’m not sure how bad it is in Texas, but getting affordable homeowners insurance is an extreme problem in Louisiana now that the last legislature repealed the law that said your insurer could not drop you after three years. mine is up for renewal in July, and as I sued them over hurricane Ida, and recovered far more than State Farm said I owed, I am expecting to be dropped.
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