L&C Investments, President Doug Cheatham, and two agents, Randy Garrison and Shelli Perrey, have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Missouri Department of Insurance and several Department employees. The suit names former Director Dale Finke, Investigator Robert Volkmer, Kathryn Turner as Senior Counsel for the Consumer Affairs Division, and Kevin Hall as legal representative for the Department.
L&C and its agents filed two counts of conspiracy, negligence, slander, libel and 14th amendment claims against the DIFP and its employees. L&C alleges Department employees conspired to force a refund of a disputed bond fee, delayed licensing for plaintiffs, improperly filed an appealed bail bond judgment on the OSCA list, and committed slander and libel against plaintiffs to the Missouri courts and members of the bail bond profession. In its count of negligence, L&C alleges the DIFP allowed L&C to become a licensed general bail bond corporation and then in September 2006, without a change in rule or law, the DIFP ruled that corporations were no longer in compliance of licensing laws, and required L&C to cease writing bonds or to write bonds under a secondary insurance contract.
The lawsuit was filed in US District Court, Western District of Missouri.
Saturday, January 6, 2007
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