Commercial Underwriters v. Cavness
The defendant got away with restoring motorcycles that were supposed to be salvaged for years, but then even failed to pay the salvage proceeds. We matched up the DMV records with the defendants’ bank records and showed that fraud was demonstrable. One of the defendants could have gotten a dismissal a month before trial, but instead threatened us with a malicious prosecution action if we didn’t let the others go too. Instead, after we won our fight to obtain bank records, which revealed motorcycle dealerships that had purchased “used” bikes from the defendants that were supposed to have been scrapped, and resold them, both defendants gave us a stipulated judgment for two and a half times what our original settlement offer had been. Once again, diligent hard work wins out over blusterous baloney.
