Bad news court case Stensrud vs. Velton (Cambridge Mutual)

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Dear Friends, (Sorry Martha, you've heard this already)

Before Thanksgiving I found a " lovely " (I'm being sarcastic) heavy bundle of

papers on my doorstep which told me in essence that the case my lawyer,

Wessler, and I have been working on for almost six years is being denied a trial

or the ability to settle.

Since my brother's sucide in August, I have not been able to deal with much. I

was getting ready to visit my brother's son in NC at Cherry Point Marine Air

Command base for Thanksgiving along with his mother. I wasn't able to even

recognize what had happened with the mold case. I couldn't deal.

I can't deal with more than one completely astounding devastation at a time.

When my lawyer asked for some additional time based on the impact of the

suicide, I don't know if he told why he needed additional time, but we were

actually granted LESS time. Whenever the defense wanted weeks and months, they

dragged their feet with no inkling of when they were going to file or respond.

If THEY have asked for time, they have been granted their every fondest wish.

Six years of waiting to go to trial and when my lawyer asks for 6 weeks, we

actually get two weeks and I have to drive to Albany, NY and back to Pawtucket,

RI in one day so that Johanning can be brought up to speed and signed in as an

expert witness because he was going on vacation during the second week that we

were granted. I had to then drive to Lebanon, NH and back in one day to bring

another doctor up to speed. All this followed by DAYS of mad rushing around

trying to get other medical records from other doctors AND FOR WHAT???

Remember, I am the sick person, gulping down coffee and holding down the

steering wheel for hours on end.

Then the judge rules on the Summary Judgement and hands the decision over to THE

DEFENSE. My neighbor, who is the defense along with his insurance company, was

raising a whole PET STORE in his condo (cages of birds, reptiles including

snakes, tarantulas, tanks and tanks of fish) such that air testing in my condo

showed high levels of bacteria associated with raw sewage processing and animal

husbandry. It was my lawyer's job to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that my

neighbor KNEW that a whole wall in his basement was missing, allowing water to

go between our walls every time he or his renter took a shower, producing

copious black mold growth (analysed to be Stachy), but my lying neighbor DOESN'T

have to prove that he DIDN'T KNOW.

My remediators called me when they opened the walls because in removing my

basement insulation, my neighbor's walls came away - basically because it was no

more than BLACK GOOSH at that point. So the defense also made the argument that

MY REMEDIATORS caused MY NEIGHBOR'S WALL DAMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The judge believed HIM and his lawyers as they concocted lies and are calling

ME, the injured party, the liar.

The judge ruled in such a way, by not telling what exactly convinced him in

particular as to why this case had no merit SUCH THAT MY LAWYER AND I CANNOT

EVEN APPEAL because it will not produce a different outcome.

So SIX YEARS OF WORK has been reduced to an insurance claim for property damage

for which I doubt I'll even get a red cent.

I can't scream or cry loud enough to represent my utter outrage, feelings of

devastation and hopelessness.

There are no words.

I am working as hard as I can to survive. I don't have enough work and I have no

living family nor a spouse to help me thru any of this.

How this judge can rule so that an injured party cannot even rebut his decision,

I cannot for the life of me understand. How can this man look himself in the

mirror?

My lawyer says we have to put the property damage part of the case past this

SAME JUDGE. It's like getting kicked and then expecting to NOT be kicked again.

I am at my wits' end.

Stensrud