Note to all reading this. Insurance is my day job. If you have teenagers, jack up your policy limits. When they get in accidents stuff happens, like this story. Only – don’t be like Karen Spiegel, let your insurance carrier work it out.

See the lawsuit related to the accident here. See The Absurd defense offered here.

We all know greaseball personal injury attorneys would name a cat in a lawsuit if they thought the cat had some money. In this case, the nexus for Karen Spiegel, her family and the business getting named in the lawsuit was clear. The title of the car.

The way Karen Spiegel decided to handle the case? Instead of paying the victim for damages incurred, she demanded a jury trial. Then adding insult to injury, Karen spiegel then blamed the victim for the accident. To those of you in Corona, does this pattern sound familiar?

In a bizarre twist in the documents, Speigel also blamed unknown, third parties for causing the accident.

Undaunted, Karen Spiegel also sought to have the lawsuit dismissed, arguing that the plaintiff failed to word her complaint for damages properly. Get it? Legal technicalities like the ones she whines about from the podium in city council meetings.

If that argument didn’t work, spiegel also claimed that she can’t be sued because the statute of limitations had expired. (This was a complete lie at the time, but is in the court documents)

Karen Spiegel then claimed that if the court found against her for damages, any amount should be reduced because the victim injured the plaintiffs in the accident. IF you’ve been watching the videos that local activists are posting of Karen Spiegel who is suddenly having self discovery over a slew of issues, you will realize that the pattern in this lawsuit from 13 years ago is still in effect today!

Karen Spiegel also argues that is she is held responsible for the accident, she shouldn’t have to pay anything because victim was somehow negligent. Karen Speigel also followed up that claim stating if she must pay damages to victim, the amount should be reduced because victim did not try to reduce victim’s expenses or cost incurred due to accident. I wish she would apply that standard to her own mismanagement of the City’s Finances.

Spiegel’s insane defense also asserted that the victim should not receive damages from her because the victim didn’t try harder to have her injuries properly treated. This sounds an awful lot like the County Worker’s Comp System that fights all claims regardless of merit.

Karen Spiegel then claimed that no money is owed to victim because there is no proof that She did anything wrong! Let this sentence sink in. This is a key theme of her supervisor campaign.

It is amazing how a 13 year old lawsuit is still relevant today.