Judge rules against Lackawanna County again in amphitheater insurance case
Judge
--The county's insurance broker at the time,
--The insurance company's failure to follow proper policy cancellation procedures did not matter.
County lawyers argued that
The insurance company was the Housing and Redevelopment Insurance Exchange, run by insurance executive
In the November ruling,
The judge found then that
Housing and Redevelopment Insurance Exchange also refunded the county
The company issued a cancellation notice to the wrong entity, the Lackawanna County Montage Mountain Ski Area, which does not exist as a legal entity, and the wrong reason for cancellation, a sale of the amphitheater that did not happen, the judge said.
In his latest ruling, the judge said the rulings in previous court cases cited by the county as precedents do not apply in this case. In one instance, the judge chastised county lawyers for citing a 1936 case that had an insurance company starting the policy cancellation process, unlike the county case.
"This 1936 case is clearly not applicable to the facts in our case and the citation of it as such is quite disturbing to this court and counsel's obligation of candor to the tribunal,"
Attorney
The case actually became a bit of a political football in 2013, when
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