In my hobby world of investing, considering alternative viewpoints is crucial to success. While Katrina and the resulting litigation has been a frequent topic for national discussion, one of the reasons I began blogging was the story…..our story was not being conveyed from a local perspective.
Understanding Katrina and the totality of it’s aftermath requires living the experience. Understanding the litigation means there is no substitute for being present and accounted for as Mr Richard Trahant, the attorney for the Weiss family pointed out here. Unfortunately the alternative viewpoints of those who were slabbed by Katrina became lost in the shuffle on the national stage, often dismissed as fringe or emotional as well exhibited by “Thick” yesterday against the well reasoned alternative viewpoint of “Coastboy” in an insurance industry law blog.
Against that backdrop I was most honored to have yesterday’s Allstate Challenge post featured in Ms Vickie Pynchon’s Negotiation Law Blog. Her reply to the comment I left there was both excellent and even handed in my opinion. I urge our readers to pay Ms Pynchon’s entry a visit.
This morning I rose to find the California Punitive Damages Law Blog covered the Broussard case and linked to both slabbed’s analysis of Broussard and Chip Merlin’s excellent analysis of the arguments made before the 5th Circuit on the case. At slabbed we’re honored to be mentioned in the same sentence with the Merlin Law Blog.
Most important we thank the good people at IP ADR and Horvitz & Levy for reading us and linking to our viewpoints.
I have a very full day on tap and Nowdy will pick up the slack today from here.
sop
Filed under: Allstate, Claims Handling, Insurance Law, Sop | Tagged: Allstate, Broussard, Mediation, Punitive Damages, State Farm
