Freelance Paralegal Writes Column for Local Newspaper

California freelance paralegal Pamela Case is one of a select group of Tracy residents to have a column in its local newspaper, the Tracy Press. In her February 10, 2009 column, “Buyer beware – and insured beware”, Ms. Case does an excellent (and amusing) job of explaining a convoluted civil suit, Safeco Insurance Co. v. Parks. In very plain English, Ms. Case demystifies the insurance dispute as follows:

So we have a homeowner dragged into a court case because his girlfriend’s daughter’s friends kicked her abusive, drunken boyfriend out of a car and he eventually got hit by another car.

Then the girl’s grandmother gets dragged into it because she had renter’s insurance on her condominium, and, although the policy had an automobile exclusion, it was still held liable for the granddaughter’s actions.

The insurance company was held liable for bad faith because it failed to cross reference Michelle with her grandmother and offer a defense at the outset when everyone was focused solely on the mom’s boyfriend’s policy.

See the Tracy Press.