Posted on 08/06/2012 9:20:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Recent court filings show Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, has filed a claim for monetary damages against an insurance company for the Retreat at Twin Lakes homeowners association in her 17-year-old son's death.
The insurance claim was revealed in paperwork filed last week by Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America. In those documents, the insurer seeks clarification of its responsibilities in the teen's death and asks a federal judge to absolve Travelers of liability.
The teen, who was staying at Retreat at Twin Lakes with his father's girlfriend, was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman Feb. 26 while returning from a local 7-Eleven store, authorities say.
About a month after the shooting, the federal filings show, Travelers issued an insurance policy to the homeowners association. "After the inception of the claims-made policy, Fulton made a claim for monetary damages ..." Travelers says "... as a result of the fatal shooting of Martin."
Travelers writes in its filing that the company "is in doubt of its rights" under the policy and "seeks a declaration of its rights and obligations with respect to the claim" made by Fulton.
The insurer has asked the court to rule that Travelers "has no duty to defend The Retreat at Twin Lakes" against Fulton's claim. The amount of Fulton's claim is not explicitly stated in the court filings, but the insurance company writes that the "amount in controversy exceeds the sum of $75,000."
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the teen's family, said that the Martins are investigating possible claims with "all the insurance companies that might be applicable" and was seeking to determine "whatever the insurance limits were."
"It's our job, as lawyers, to make sure that we protect our client's interest," Crump said...
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This was what all of the hubub was about in the first place. Martin’s parents didn’t get any money. They’ll get their money and everybody will be happy and munching Skittles again as though nothing ever happened.
we all knew that this is where it was going, so along as they got a charge they could file a civil suit.
My oldest cuts grass for money and he nearly got bit by a snake, a pygmy{sp} and lost it but this woman was up there very differently to how I would have been.
Kid is on suspension from school but out in Orlando , if that were my kid he’d never be even leaving the house.
So in the future all of the community watch programs will be banned for insurance purposes. They will go away like the diving boards and slides.
I read on another FR thread that the mother’s applied for money from the state’s victim’s compensation fund. She’s covering all her bases. Who will she sue next?
Think of all the gold caps he didn't get to place.
I’m suprised that she hasn’t tried to work out a sponser deal with a company like Mars Inc.(maker of skittles). Or a hoodie maker that could put out a hoodie in his name.......
What am I missing here....Travellers issued the insurance about a month AFTER the shooting...
...so how come they are liable for ANYTHING that happened prior ....?
They don’t need a conviction?
We're now all living in an alternate reality.
I'm sure that Obama and Holder will jump into the fray here, claiming that the new policy applies. The new insurance welfare rules requires coverage of pre-existing conditions.
It may be a "claims made" policy, meaning that it will cover the association at the time the claim is made - even if the event occurred outside of the coverage period.
Not uncommon.
I seriously hope she doesn't get a dime out of the HOA. The altercation was between private citizens, someone who was not acting in his capacity as a volunteer on duty. I also seriously hope that if the court rules against the HOA, Travelers picks up the tab...otherwise, every single person in that association will be paying a share of the bill.
I have a strong feeling that if Zimmerman is cleared, things will go badly for her a civil court.
Is she still on paid leave from her government job?
I told any that would listen from day one that money was the ultimate goal!!There is a reason that personal injury vultures advertise almost exclusively in areas frequented by miniorities. A steel erection construction company that once did a job I was on was sued by a miniority and lost to him because he had applied for an advertised position for a resgistered professional engineer while not even finishing high school and they had not followed federal protocol with his denial for employment.
This is called “working the system”.
Think of all the gold caps he didn’t get to place.
I don’t think welfare covers gold crowns.
That’s probably next on her list of “to do” things.
How did Pam Bondi at the AG's office approve this claim on March 29th when there had been no crime charged until later in April. Talk about premeditation in this case.
FWIU her claim against the HOA was made the very same day that the policy took effect — March 30th.
Would that indicate some kind of connection/collusion between someone at the HOA and her attorney’s office???
Ah! The money! It’s really about the money! Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money!!!!!!! Parasites.
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