(From the City of Carthage)The City of Carthage announces that the lawsuit filed in the case of Dagnan vs. City of Carthage has been settled.
The Midwest Public Risk Management Fund (MPR), which provides liability insurance coverage for the City, reviewed the matter and authorized the settlement. Under the terms of MPR’s coverage, MPR may investigate claims or lawsuits at its discretion, including those within the City’s deductible. MPR also retains the right and duty to defend lawsuits, select legal counsel, and negotiate settlements.
If a member entity such as the City declines a settlement authorized by MPR, the City may be responsible for all further legal defense costs and any additional settlement amounts.
In this case, MPR recommended a settlement to the City, and Council agreed. The City’s only financial contribution was a $1,000.00 deductible; the remaining costs were covered by MPR. Additionally, as part of this resolution, the City makes no admission of liability or wrongdoing.
Council sincerely believes that this is in the best interest of our community as we look forward to a peaceful and prosperous year ahead. The City remains committed to transparency, good governance, and service to the community.
Prediction: Dagnan got $250,000.
ReplyDeleteMy prediction was the settlement was $312,000 (which is 3x the salary he was making at the time of termination)
DeleteAnd his lawyer will get 30% so he walks with close to $220,000
I wasn't specific with my predition of $250,000. The prediction is the total amount of the settlement is $250,000.
DeleteHow much was the Settlement - Not just the Deductible - The Insurance is Paid for by the Taxpayers of Jasper County - We have a Right to Know all of the Counties Business / Settlements / Wrongdoings / Etc., - Carthage has to STOP doing things in the Backrooms and keeping the Public in the Dark - Again, Our Taxpayers-Money - Not for the City to Waste or Illegally Handle - Who is needed to be Held Responsible - Who is Truly Responsible for this Settlement - STOP the Misinformation and Hiding of Things - Everything and Everyone in Jasper County needs to be Open Door. Do we need to RECALL MORE COUNCEL PEOPLE?
ReplyDeleteJana Schramm can’t stop yelling at people and being nasty in private sessions…….and even at churches where people vote!
DeleteI’m excited to read the police report she filed on the people she was harassing on Election Day.
Every council member responsible for firing Mr. Dagnan needs to be gone. They all knew he had done nothing wrong. It was a vendetta firing by the Carthage Citizens United, and now we have a mayor that was one of the founders of the Carthage Citizens United.
ReplyDeleteThey should be responsible for the restitution, not the taxpayers of the city of Carthage.
Reaching a settlement agreement will not begin the healing process until the ones responsible are held accountable.
Perhaps if people saw you for someone who was intelligent and trustworthy, you could have helped in the election. Otherwise, you maybe should stop talking and posting, it is revealing all that you lack, which ultimately hurt your candidates.
DeleteEveryone deserves their day in court, Greg didn’t seem to want it. He filed multiple suits against everyone he could think of, 95% were kicked out. They were all frivolous, but he kept trying. If he wanted to be proven right, he would have fought for it. As it is his attorney’s are walking away with 55% of the total and he basically gets a year of pay with no benefits. Yes, you can look it up if you know how.
The experience we have had in Carthage makes this WELL WORTH IT to get him out of there.
All it cost the city was $1,000. Insurance has paid the rest.
A vast majority of Carthaginians would gladly pay double what Greg got to had you, Bill, and your nonsensical friends shut up and move away.
It’s over. Enough Is enough.
The City remains committed to transparency, good governance, and service to the community.
ReplyDeleteSo now tell us what the insurance company paid,
Let’s be transparent City of Carthage
It’s taken far too long. It’s harmed Carthage in far more ways than meets the eye. But, anyone with any measure of sense knew this was coming. It’s good to see Mr Dagnan finally receiving relief for hideous treatment and wrongful termination. I hope this helps him and his family as he continues moving forward. Thank God for some form of justice finally taking place.
ReplyDeleteThis settlement isn't the end of the costs for the taxpayers of Carthage.
ReplyDeleteWhen your insurance carrier has to stage an intervention beause you aren't doing things right, YOU AREN'T DOING THINGS RIGHT!
When your insurance carrier stages an intervention, you most likely are going to be paying more for your insurance. Whether or not you are forced to find a new insurance company.
https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/local/carthage-news/city-of-carthage-faces-insurance-loss-over-employee-terminations-made-by-the-city-council/
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The judge had already tossed Punitive damages, limiting the lawsuit to actual damages only. When you considered he was given 3 months severance, actual would of probably been another 9 months of salary they probably settled for half that. I would guess he received in the 30k range tops. If they would of been suing for 300k plus the insurance would of fought that long and hard. They tossed him a gimme to get to go away.
ReplyDeleteWell worth 30k to send him packing IMHO, he brought nothing but misery to the city.
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Anonymous @ 12:54. See the newer article that just posted. You were way off.
Delete$275,000 is much more than $30,000!
DeleteSomething must have been worse than 12:54 thought.
I wonder if Midwest Public Risk's attorneys looked at Dagnan's claims, looked the record over (some of those videos from council perhaps?) maybe even asked some questions of those they would be defending and decided to nope out before wasting money and risking a really big loss?
Could it be that the Midwest Public Risk attorney might have worried some of those likely to be deposed by both the defense and plaintiff might not do nearly as well in a deposition as they might think.
Dagnan might have had some skills the defendants didn't have due to his prior experience in both civil and criminal court settings.
Hey genius, Greg was the one who took the offer. Ha. Sounds like he wasn’t confident in the results of his actions like some of you think.
DeleteBecause he took the effort to try and sue everyone which most definitely drove up his legal fees up. In these cases, typically the legal fees for all he attempted would normally run into the $150,000 range. So Dagnan ends up with much less than the millions everyone said he would get.
And at the end of the day, he took this because it wasn’t going well for him. Recent court documents and transcripts show he was beginning to struggle as a “whistleblower”.
So he took some money and the system of sue everyone so you get something small, keeps going.
4:16PM - Are you having a nervous breakdown or a stroke, get to the doctors office - B For iT is tOo LaTe!
ReplyDeleteYou can tell where 4:16PM went to School, Carthage R9 School District, as well as the rest of the lustrous city council. "I am not a smart man", wasn't Forest Gump a modification of the screen play - "I was born in Carthage and had too much lead and zinc in our daily water and food supply".
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous 8:48. If only. If only $1,000 was all the targeting and wrongful termination of Dagnan by the CCU Council cost the citizens of Carthage. Not so. The citizens will pay far more, now, for City insurance coverage. Higher premiums and a huge increase in our deductible. From formerly $1,000 to now $50,000 is quite the jump. In the same way the vindictive actions of this same Council cost the citizens huge increases in what they now pay for City legal services. Let alone the more than $100k they frivolously spent in maliciously and wrongfully targeting and impeaching Mayor Dan Rife. Which is still ongoing. The costs the former CCU Council (thankful now no longer in power with many changes made, and foremost, with the victory of the citizens in very successfully recalling the main culprit, Tiffany Cossey) …those costs brought to the citizens of Carthage are huge, long term, and shameful.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mr Dagnan took the offer. The City wanted out before it cost them even more when the writing was on the wall. Insurance companies don’t send warning letters to small towns for good behavior. They don’t threaten to drop the City’s coverage for having handled city employees, namely Greg Dagnan, rightfully. And they certainly don’t recommend settling with the person they wronged, when they could have won their case.
Another point you embellish, and a couple of others have …is trying to escalate the “number of law suits” Mr Dagnan filed. We’ve seen it stated by your types as 9-13. Untrue. One lawsuit which sues a City Council who had 9 members is still one lawsuit, rather than 9 lawsuits. Yes he also filed against the CCU’s leader, Mr Putnam. Still that doesn’t arrive at 9 or 13 different lawsuits.
You can try and minimize Mr Dagnan’s winnings, and the naive who have always followed your erroneous thinking (which got Carthage into these troubles to begin with) will believe you and take your false thoughts for truth. It doesn’t matter.
Mr Dagnan won, and won big. What have you won from all your meddling? Nothing but a bad reputation. This settlement also proves the former CCU Council was very much in the wrong. Tell-tale sign is the inclusion in the settlement terms they offered Mr Dagnan, with a clause which states the City doesn’t have to admit they were in the wrong, lol! As if the Council behavior there, plus this win for Mr Dagnan didn’t already make their wrongdoing clear.
First of all this legal situation cost the City of Carthage $1,000 Deductible - Again, Taxpayers Money - and is an unbelievable small deductible - why so small, plus - the Taxpayers have been making the Insurance Payments for the City too. Is the City Buying this Insurance through one of its Cronies?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone truly believe that the City of Carthage's Insurance Premiums won't go up after this fiasco. Before the City of Carthage Council does more STUPID STUFF - Why don't they Consulting a Large Law Firm for their Recommendations - Not Pull Something Stupid and then contact a Law Firm and get sued?
Think - Before doing more Stupid Stuff and Costing Taxpayer's Money and your Town's Reputation!!!