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James OKeefe Is Fighting His Insurance Company
The conservative activist filmmaker is battling insurance company Gemini after it refused to back Project Veritas on lawsuits filed by targets of his undercover videos.
Posted on November 8, 2017, at 3:42 p.m.
Steven Perlberg
BuzzFeed News Reporter
For months, lawsuits have piled up against James OKeefe, the conservative filmmaker and provocateur, from various targets of his signature undercover videos.
But OKeefe and his video site Project Veritas have taken some legal action of their own recently against the insurance company that they claim violated a contractual obligation to pay for mushrooming legal bills.
Now Project Veritas is engaged in a battle with the company it hoped would protect it, a dispute that lays bare the stark challenges faced by OKeefe for the kind of controversial, litigation-prone hidden camera stings that have made him both a scourge and a conservative media darling.
In September, OKeefe and his associates at Project Veritas sued Gemini Insurance Company for wrongful denial to defend and indemnify Project Veritas over three lawsuits. The company alleged that Gemini was in breach of contract for not footing the bill for the lawsuits, which included a defamation allegation from the president of a Kansas teachers union.
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hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)Then again, they damned well should have known what they were getting into.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)for multiple counts of fraud?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)My insurance company should pay for lawyers to defend me?
Hmm, I don't think so.
ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)Hard to believe an insurance company wouldn't have language in the contract nullifying the deal if lying and fraud are involved.
Also too, Sad.
Scoopster
(423 posts)Most insurance contracts include entire sections on the deliberately negligent actions that their insurance doesn't cover, and in most such cases it would also nullify the contract. Committing fraud then demanding an insurance company cover your legal fees to defend such illegal actions are probably first on that list.
Suck it up, Jimmy. You got hoisted by your own petard.