Carman insurance case witnesses scared to testify
A lawyer for the
Carman's attorney,
Anderson recounted Farrell's response from a phone conversation: "You advised me that the basis of your client's security concerns and consequential refusal to provide actual address and phone no.'s of your client's employee witnesses was, accusations made by others that Nathan killed two people. We agreed to disagree."
Farrell declined to comment when reached at his office yesterday, and Anderson did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The lawyers' emails, attached to court filings, preview issues they want to address at a hearing Monday in federal court in
The insurer's attorney indicated they wanted to dig into Carman's "actions/inactions regarding his mother's death" as well as "his grandfather's unsolved homicide," arguing any revelations regarding "illegality" or "criminal wrongdoing" in those incidents could also bar his insurance claim.
Carman's attorney pushed back, arguing the insurers haven't argued that the sinking had anything to do with the death of Carman's mother,
"You have not alleged that Nathan intended to sink the vessel and/or kill his mother or that he killed his grandfather several years ago," Anderson wrote. "I do not intend to sit by and allow you to conduct discovery relating to these subjects."
Carman's aunts -- the sisters of the late
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