Today’s SLABBED Daily is a mixed bag – a late one, too! First, we have a brief update on Politz v Nationwide and then a report that should bring howls from Steve.
Friday’s docket showed two new motions filed by Mrs. Politz related to Judge Walker’s what-was-he-thinking Order granting Nationwide’s request that she undergo a mental exam to prove what the law says needs no such proof – the mental anguish she suffered in Nationwide’s handling of her claim.
This difference in law and order aside, Mrs. Politz asks the Court to move the exam to a place that must feel like home to her by now, the office of her attorney, instead of the office of Nationwide’s counsel.
In her second motion, Motion for Leave to Designate Mental Health Expert, Mrs. Politz informs the Court she has selected a doctor and made an appointment to have an examination prior to the date of the Court-order exam by a doctor of Nationwide’s choosing:
Plaintiff respectfully requests that if the Court is inclined to order Mrs. Politz to be evaluated by Nationwide’s mental health expert, Plaintiff asks that she be allowed to designate and be evaluated by her own mental health professional, and that she be allowed to utilize any report generated from said evaluation during the trial of this cause as evidence and to call her mental health expert for testimony as an expert during the trial of this cause…
Since forcing Mrs. Politz to have her mental health examined is simply the latest of Nationwide’s efforts to cause Mrs. Politz mental anguish, an examination by a competent professional of her choice should be reassuring to her personally as well as give her case an unexpected boost.
AIG, however, is giving Nationwide serious competition for this week’s Mean-Spirited Insurer Award and Steve may be one of the few not surprised by AIG’s attempt to un-endow charities. Continue reading “SLABBED Daily – June 5”