Insurance Law

Scruggs Nation, June 5

By David Rossmiller

Dickie Scruggs' sentencing hearing has been moved again.  Here's the story.  I wonder how that federal investigation of the Wilson case is doing. Walter Olson has some news, including links to a post on the folo blog and a story by Patsy Brumfield. 

-- In other matters, here's a story Anita Lee wrote in the Sun Herald about the Trailer Lawyers' attempt at a comeback tour, with a nice picture of the Rigsby sisters.  I still say it's too bad they ever got involved with Scruggs.  Just a guess on my part, but I bet they will feel the same one day, if they don't already.  You may recall the post I did earlier this week about the Trailer Lawyers' brief requesting Judge Senter reconsider his disqualification, a brief that suggests they have been quaffing some abundantly spiked Scruggsian Kool-Aid.

-- You might have seen the recent article by syndicated columnist David Ignatius on Scruggs, which contained these paragraphs: 

What destroyed [plaintiffs attorney  Melvyn] Weiss and Scruggs was a system in which the money just got too big. The two had helped spawn an industry of class-action mega-cases that was so lucrative, the plaintiffs couldn't afford to lose. So the "good guys" began to cut corners.

Weiss and Scruggs got in trouble in part because they were especially aggressive in representing people they believed had been wronged. "They were the Daniel Boones, who cut through the Cumberland Gap," argues Alex MacDonald, a prominent plaintiff's lawyer with the Boston firm MacDonald Rothweiler Eisenberg LLP. 

The system destroyed Scruggs? Wrong.  Scruggs destroyed Scruggs.  Scruggs got in trouble "in part because [he] was especially aggressive in representing people [he] believed had been wronged"? Like who, himself?  Is that why he participated in the bribery scheme, because he was especially aggressive in representing those wronged people?  That description makes it sound like he's a cop who got suspended for knocking over some shelves of canned peas while rescuing hostages in a grocery store.   

Full post as published by Insurance Coverage Law Blog on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).