Fatigue. I am wore out. I am battle scarred.
How many Katrina survivors share the sentiments of outgoing Moss Point Mayor Xavier Bishop? That I don’t know but after reading NPR: Hurrican Fatigue Plagues Mississippi Mayors over at the Y’all Politics blog and following the link to NPR, I’ve given the question some thought.
It’s hard to hold public attention on any issue and even harder because so much about Katrina sounds like a broken record. Insurance claims handling is certainly one example – but, who would have ever thought four years after the storm there would be unresolved claims for Katrina damage.
Obviously, I was naive to think all these claims would be resolved long before now; but, I’m reviewing cases with trial dates set well into 2010 and even more still in the early stages of litigation with no date set at all.
Not only are they all starting to sound alike, most of them are! When I tire of reading slightly different versions of the same complaint, I think about the policyholder plaintiffs and how tired they must be of the struggle to resolve a dispute that should never have happen.
Politz v Nationwide is one of those “should never happened” disputes but it did happen and today her attorney filed a Motion for Review and Objection to the U.S. Magistrate Judge’s Order. Continue reading “SLABBED Daily – June 3”