{"id":18195,"date":"2015-09-17T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clekis.com\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2015-09-17T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:25:12","slug":"personal-injury-lawyer-bill-cosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themediabeast.com\/resources\/personal-injury-lawyer-bill-cosby\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Injury Lawyer | Bill Cosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Personal Injury Lawyer | Bill Cosby<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Personal injury lawyers for Bill Cosby have asked a federal judge to dismiss or put on hold a lawsuit from his insurer, which seeks to avoid paying for his defense against defamation claims by women who have accused him of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cosby is arguing that he would be forced to fight a &#8216;four-front battle&#8217; that would drain his resources if he has to face the American International Group Inc&#8217;s two lawsuits before his other two are resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The comedian is defending against defamation lawsuits by Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz in Massachusetts, and the model Janice Dickinson in California, spurred by both Cosby and his representatives&#8217; denials of sexual misconduct claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cosby claims in the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2423171-aig-cosby.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">suit<\/a> that he purchased homeowners insurance coverage from AIG for many years to &#8216;protect himself against, among other things, lawsuits alleging that he defamed others&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He notes that policies in his coverage obligate AIG to pay damages to Cosby for &#8216;personal injury&#8217;, which is defined to include &#8216;bodily injury, shock, emotional distress, mental injury, invasion of privacy, and defamation, libel, or slander&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-img-group floatRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap fff-pic\">Personal injury lawyers for Cosby argue that his resources would be drained if he has to face the American International Group Inc&#8217;s lawsuits before his other two are resolved<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But in June AIG sued Cosby over policies issued to him in both Massachusetts and California and said they do not provide coverage for personal injury claims arising from &#8216;sexual, physical or mental abuse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a Monday filing in the federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, Cosby said he would face &#8216;substantial prejudice&#8217; by being forced to defend simultaneously against AIG over the policies, and against the women over the defamation claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Forcing Mr. Cosby to fight a four-front battle would demonstrate AIG&#8217;s complete disregard for the best interests of Mr. Cosby and would indisputably manifest itself in AIG directly impairing Mr. Cosby&#8217;s ability to defend himself in the Underlying lawsuits,&#8217; his personal injury lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Not only does AIG&#8217;s action bolster the underlying plaintiffs, who will perceive Mr. Cosby as under attack even from his supposed backers, but it splits Mr. Cosby&#8217;s focus and drains his resources.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3236287\/Bill-Cosby-asks-court-dismiss-insurer-s-lawsuit-drain-resources-fight-against-sexual-assault-accusers.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Personal Injury Lawyer | Bill Cosby Personal injury lawyers for Bill Cosby have asked a federal judge to dismiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[78,119,747],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-injury-lawyer","tag-criminal-defense-lawyer","tag-personal-injury-lawyer","tag-workers-comp-lawyer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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