Posted on 08/07/2014 8:40:06 AM PDT by Altariel
Edited on 08/07/2014 8:47:08 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An insurance company settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney said Wednesday.
Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Adriana's Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga-based company.
The East Los Angeles man alleged that during an argument over why the company had cancelled his auto insurance, an agent assaulted him by physically removing him from the office.
Jerks.
when somebody does this to a company they’re a hero. when the shoe’s on the other foot.....?
frankly, this can’t be good PR for the company
I’d ask the judge for a contempt citation.
Me too.
They tend to prey on the ignorance (or fear) of new immigrants.
Clearly, this is only half the story.
“this can’t be good PR for the company”
Adriana’s Insurance Services, a Rancho Cucamonga-based company.
Sounds like a fly by night operation to begin with. i doubt they have pr. lol
He doesn’t have to accept them.
Since they did not get a receipt for the money, I’d keep it and claim they have not made full payment.
I didn’t think physically throwing someone off your property unless you use excessive force was considered assault. How do bouncers not get arrested then? Or did his lawsuit contend that they did use excessive force?
I'm not sure how this would be contempt of court, since they did this to the plaintiff, not to the court. If they did this to pay a fine to the court, it might qualify as contempt of court, but there is no such violation as contempt of plaintiff...
While this seems kind of petty, they did pay the judgment to the plaintiff in legal tender...
While this seems kind of petty’
Well yes, just ‘kind of’ petty. Not really, really petty; that would have been paying in all pennies. But since there were some quarters mixed in, it was only ‘kind of’ petty.
/s
Bouncers are sued all the time.
I went to school at Southern Illinois University. They made it illegal to pay parking fines in pennies. The fines were outrageous; I think $75 or so and that was in ‘93. To protest the high fines someone dropped off payment stuffed in a cow’s heart. He was promptly arrested. Funny how school encourage protests except where payment is concerned.
Me three
His attorney made a big mistake for not specifying that payment was to be made by check. Always get your name on the check, so the client can’t cash it directly. Besides, the Bar rules require it to go through the lawyer’s trust account.
True, you can request payment in a specific form. And you can refuse to sell a product or provide a service to someone who wants to pay in pennies. However, if payment is for a debt that is already owed and the form of payment was not specified when the debt was created and then you refuse payment in legal tender, the person owing can sue to have the debt discharged up to the amount of the payment offered. The law makes a distinction between debts and purchases in this regard.
For example, let's say you want to buy a car. You negotiate with the dealer, and the contract then says that your monthly payments are going to be $500.00 a month. You go in the first month and give the dealer an envelope with 500 $1.00 bills. If the dealer refuses the payment and demands a check or money order, you can have the amount of that payment discharged against the loan. Otherwise, you can go get a check or money order for them, but they cannot charge you interest on the unpaid $500 during the time it takes for you to get the payment in the form they desire.
The exception to this would be if the dealer specified in the loan documents that all payments had to be made by check, money order or bank transfer. In that case, you had the choice to decline the sale if you objected to those terms. But if those terms were not specified at the time of the sale, then imposing them once the debt exists could result in part of the debt being extinguished if the seller refuses payment in cash.
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