Justin Baldouni suits “ends with us” for not covering the legal fees
Justin Balouni The name will not be outside the courtroom any time soon.
The actor and director, who was involved in the legal drama related to his movie for the year 2024, “He ends with us” for several months, suits the film insurance companies for refusing to cover the costs of litigation caused by the film.
In a lawsuit submitted on July 30 in the Los Angeles Supreme Court, Baldoni and his production company are accusing Wayfarer Studios, three insurance companies to violate the contract to deny cost coverage for the month of December The lawsuit filed by the star participating in Baldouni, Blake Livly.
The case represents the latest wrinkles in a already chaotic conflict, as it brought new parties to try to sort those who advanced the escalating legal bills.
The insurance companies mentioned in the lawsuit – New York Marin, QBE Insurance Limited and some subscriptions in Lloyd – have sold policies to Wayfareer, “promising to defend the company and its officers, among other matters, lawsuits such as the deposit deposit, which dreams of sexual harassment, retirement and actor.
Wayfarer Studios Steve Sarowitz and Jamey Heath joined Baldoni and the company to file a lawsuit against insurance companies. The defendants were also named in the Livley suit.
The sprawling legal epic broke out the parties surrounding “it ends with us” at the end of last year after a controversial press tour and rumors about the rift between inferior and vitality.
Lavelli accused the blogging and his team of coordinating a campaign of distortion against it after she reported the sexual harassment specified in the original lawsuit she filed.
He presented a blade of a suit of 400 million dollars, claiming that Levli’s accusations are baseless and caused a greater damage to his professional life, reputation and personal life, and increasing the escalation of legal quarrels with high interest.
judge She rejected a suit In June, he said it did not fulfill the legal standards, which represents a setback for a campus camp. But the case is still one of the most closely seen cases Hollywood courtroom battles In modern memory.
The new lawsuit comes from Baldouni and his team after another movie insurance company, Harco National Insurance, recently tried to cut itself from the sticky legal dispute.
Harko litigate In the New York Federal Court in July, in July, it is seeking to explicitly obtain the court’s order that it is not a duty to pay the legal fees of the production company or its officers. Harko says in the lawsuit that sexual harassment of vital harassment is accused of inferiority from ON that it was claimed to have occurred before the effective dates of its policy, and with this WiFar did not reveal the potential issues that could have led to early claims.
The policies of the three insurance companies mentioned in the new case collectively carry at least $ 8 million of insurance, and the complaint claims that the policies should have covered the costs incurred in the legal battle.
Each insurance company sent messages to Wayfarer refused to cover, and Baldoni and his companions claim that insurance companies either did not “any useful investigation” in the claim before denial, or they were martyred with unprecedented exceptions to politics.
Representatives of all parties in the case did not respond to the suspension requests, with the exception of Lloyd, who said he could not discuss individual policies or document holders, and he cannot comment on matters in litigation.
The latest development in a period of months of months can color how Wayfarer and Baldoni move forward with the continuing legal fees.
“The vast majority of similar civil issues were settled before the trial, the vital lawsuit could be an exception.
“What is happening in a strange state is that it becomes intensively personally, there is general embarrassment, there are general accusations, then it becomes a matter of principle,” she said.
Baldoni side has deep pockets. Wayfarer Studios was submitting the legal bills in the vibrant lawsuit, according to the latest complaint filed. Sarwitz, co -founder of Wayfarer, co -chair and pioneer who also constitutes the billionaire founder of Paylocity, he once said he was ready to spend “$ 100 million to destroy” Lively “and her family, according to Levli’s complaint.
“Other companies, you can say that they will live and die because of insurance coverage because they do not have any of their own assets. They will be afraid,” said Doll. “This does not seem to be this position.”
But with legal bills and the issue becomes only more intertwined, sort the coverage that Baldoni can get from its insurance companies, despite the mobilization financing they enjoy. He added that without coverage, it is “more complicated negotiations.”
“This becomes a different kind of calculus account [for them] About the amount of our money that we want to spend in the settlement, or the amount of what we are ready to defeat dice and fighting, knowing that our money may be at the test.