Insurance Law

What's up in Jim's neighborHood?

By David Rossmiller

It's hard to tell when Jim Hood comes out of nowhere with some bizarre escapade like last week's press conference whether such an event is an objective in itself or merely an attempt to deflect attention from something else that will come up later.

If you recall, last week Hood said he is:

• responsible for the additional State Farm Katrina settlements because he sued State Farm several months after they announced a deal with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale to reopen thousands of claims files;
• the strongest man in the South, and he would prove it by walking right through a brick wall in front of reporters' eyes, except there was no brick wall around; and
• probably the reincarnation of the Pharaoh Thutmose III of Egypt, circa 1500 B.C, or possibly P.T. Barnum, or both.  

Just kidding about the last two, but he actually did say the first one.  It's a hard one to figure, saying something so utterly refutable -- it is just natural Hoodism/Hoodzpah/Hoodwinking? Or is Jim trying to get out in front of some other news, you know, build up some positive press before something else heads south in the South?   

Full post as published by Insurance Coverage Law Blog on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).