Okay. So right now the insurance company is responsible for his compensation payments
and his medical issues. And they’re continuing to pay they have no issues or problems with
that.
What they do is whatever they if we settle this case for a lump sum and move move forward
with this for a large lump sum if we decide to do that what he’s going to do is he’s
going to submit this testimony that he’s getting through this deposition to the federal
government under a different law.
We’re under the Defense Base Act which is a federal law that that says that you know
if he’s injured the insurance company has to pay. The insurance company then once they
once they make payments to you and they settle your case outright they can sub they can submit
the claim to the War Hazards Act which is a separate federal law which covers anyone
including employees.
You can be a a TV reporter that gets bombed that gets involved in a bombing and and any
type of a terroristic attack on an American person. The War Hazards Act pays for them.
So whatever the insurance pays out to us they can get reimbursed from the War Hazards Act
which comes directly from the coffers of the federal government the federal treasurer.
So with that in mind he’s going to want to know he just wants particulars as to exactly
where this thing occurred that it was documented by the federal government that it was a terrorist
attack from by insurgents and that was part of it and he was there at the time and he
was part of the he was part of being attacked. And if that’s the case then they can get
money reimbursed.
Things are progressing. I see I’ve been getting a lot of records in medical records
in. I appreciate all that. We got records in we got a disc in I think two days ago or
so I haven’t looked at it yet. Doreen goes through and she sorts through and does all
the medical summaries for us.
So what he’s going to do he’s going to have a simple questionnaire type thing in
front of him. He’s going to go through pretty much history work history at the beginning
his his work history from say high school forward and the jobs that he had in the past.
He’s going to go through his family life and kind of the background of of you know
his his life through the family. He’s going to then go through the job that he had the
immediate job that he had before the the incident occurred.
Then he’s going to go through the incident exactly where was what he saw what happened
where the grenade went off where you know basically put him in the situation that was
in and he and he can describe it in as much detail as he can. That’s the that’s the
biggest part.
Other than other than describing the incident itself which might be difficult for him to
get through and it it’s it’s very simple at the end of the day all this transcript
is is simply a Q and A Q and A.
It doesn’t say that he had to take a break it doesn’t say that he he cried or yelled
or screamed or had to leave the room. He can take a break anytime he wants. You can help
him through it. We can you can take a break every five minutes if if needed. Okay?
So but we have to be detailed on that part on the actual incident itself because they
they do have the right to ask him background information about you know has he ever been
convicted of a felony got that kind of stuff bankruptcies divorces that they’re allowed
to ask that stuff.
But the judge would probably not really he would probably stricken that part from the
record but in order to them for them to get an appropriate background because we are alleging
emotional injuries along with physical injuries they’re kind they’re pretty much allowed
to ask those types of questions even if some of them seem to be kind of sensitive.
The reason why they’re allowed to ask those is because we put his psychological issues
into the case meaning that he’s allowed to ask about his wellbeing whether he had
trouble with his family life that kind of stuff.
And so you just you just want to answer that very he’s allowed to answer that he he prepared
for this deposition with his attorney on Friday for about an hour. And that’s always a lot
that’s he doesn’t have to answer anything out other than that.
Anything else is attorney client privileged between us us and what we’re talking about.
Okay? So he’s allowed to say yes I’ve I’ve prepared for this with my attorney.
If he asks anything about what did the attorney say to you?
Did he tell you how the answer the questions? And you say that’s attorney client privileged
and I would obviously be objecting but that’s anything we say is is is confidential.