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Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Bond: I joined this law firm to become a lawyer, not a lobbyist
Retiring Sen. Kit Bond elaborated on his new job as a lawyer for the Thompson Coburn law firm during a news conference Tuesday. The video is courtesy of Jason Rosenbaum of Missouri Lawyers Media:
Well Kit, you've gone to work for the law firm that works with insurance companies to deny benefits for life, health and disability to thousands of people annually.
People work hard, select companies like Prudential, Pacific, Hartford and others; pay premiums and when unfortunate claims arise, they turn to this law firm to beat the insured out of benefits in civil and federal courts.
They turned this law firm into a profit center for their companies so that they can advertise during college and professional sports events; pay for tickets for politicians to these events; and, pay your new firm outrageous fees to build court cases in the federal court appeals system to deny benefits to others in the future.
Well Kit, you've gone to work for the law firm that works with insurance companies to deny benefits for life, health and disability to thousands of people annually.
ReplyDeletePeople work hard, select companies like Prudential, Pacific, Hartford and others; pay premiums and when unfortunate claims arise, they turn to this law firm to beat the insured out of benefits in civil and federal courts.
They turned this law firm into a profit center for their companies so that they can advertise during college and professional sports events; pay for tickets for politicians to these events; and, pay your new firm outrageous fees to build court cases in the federal court appeals system to deny benefits to others in the future.
You should be real proud of yourself.
It just figures.
ReplyDeleteAnd we sit around wondering what's wrong with our country.
I won't even say what should happen to Bond, they'd arrest me.