Very wonderful thoughts. The cuddles are, indeed the best.
I am sort of beside myself these last few days. When I wrote about the end of the road with Jenna's wreck, I was misled. Realized that the insurance company rep was wrong, when she said I was in the clear a week ago last Friday.
Called my counsel's office last Monday, and learned he had similar reservations, because no one had managed to file a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit seeking nearly two million dollars from me. The secretary confirmed that it would be necessary, and I have a clock ticking toward a default judgment against me, if we do not answer this complaint in time...unless it is dismissed.
The plaintiff's attorney had not contacted her back by this Monday, when I called again. That means I am still at risk...just for handling my daughter's estate. Two lawyers have told me I have no liability whatsoever, yet I sit with this contingent liability over my head.
I have called and received a call back from the claims agent. I basically told her this morning that, while they were in the clear, I was most assuredly not. If I needed a loan to stay in business right now, not a soul on Earth would give me one, given this claim against me. I expressed to her that this is an abuse of the legal process, which is, in itself, unethical and actionable. It is extortion, pure and simple.
I was informed that defense counsel, which in this case means the insurance company's staff counsel, has to file the Motion for Dismissal. I suggested that someone make that their reason for living TODAY.
Friends, never, Never, NEVER trust that someone else has taken your interests seriously enough. I have essentially a handful of days to clear MY name, against a claim that was simply meant to upset me enough to cause me to jar a check loose from a couple of big insurance companies.
Well, I am THAT upset now. One company's check has already been cashed. An inquiry is in the works on the other one. I have been told the motion will be handled, and communicated to my counsel by the end of business today. If I don't get a call from my counsel by then, tomorrow is going to be a weather change.
Meanwhile, this is waking me up in the wee hours,hanging over me like a guillotine blade waiting to fall. I feel like walking crud right now. No matter how much I swallow supplements that would sedate a packyderm, I wake up in a tizzy at two in the morning.
So, if I have been more prickly or argumentative than usual, this is why, and I apologize. I just need some peace, and cannot get it....
