Found this on Golden-Road.net
Hallstrom received millions of dollars to NOT force Bob Barker into public court which, after ten years of litigation, was certainly a financial and moral victory for Hallstrom and yes, in the legal world...a HUGE win.
Corporations don't spend millions of dollars paying off false allegations, if they did they'd be writing checks all day long. Hush money is not cheaper than litigation against false allegations. In our judicial system Barker has legal recourse against any and all false or frivolous lawsuits. A person who is genuinely falsely sued can go to court, win his case, recoup his expenses, and then collect financial remuneration under Malicious Prosecution. The fact that Bob Barker has never availed himself of his legal recourse, or challenged his accusers in court, tells me that there are darker reasons as to why all these lawsuits are always paid off out of court. While Barker publicly insists that he "wanted to fight" the allegations but that "the company settled", it turns out that's false. In 2005 Hallstrom openly challenged Barker by offering to exempt him from her settlement, thus allowing the two of them to continue to trial in open court. Barker declined, and participated in the settlement.
Obviously there was something rotten on TPIR for many years. To date, ten women have lost their jobs. The one consistent factor in all these women's firings is that Bob Barker was behind it.
In studying these cases, and their common denominator, I have come across some interesting statistics. Of the ten women who were fired, either after testifying when Barker sued Hallstrom, or after complaining of abuse/harassment on the set, two were paid NOT to file suit; Pennington and Bradley (probably because as on camera talent their lawsuits would attract major media attention as did Parkinson's and Hallstrom's). Parkinson, Hallstrom, Paris, Friem, Jordan, and Henry all received financial settlement to dismiss their suits against Barker (Riegert, and now Curling, are still pending). Hallstrom is the only one who did not sign a Non-Disclosure clause as a condition of her settlement. Of the ten women, Nick Alden represents two, Riegert and Hallstrom, and now Curling. Alden's client have received the largest settlements, including Barker's court ordered payment of Hallstrom's considerable legal bills after Hallstrom was declared the Prevailing Party in Barker's lawsuit against her. I gotta say, if I were suing Bob Barker, Alden would be the only phone call I'd make!
Obviously Freemantle, Barker and now CBS are all fighting at great expense to salvage their considerable investment in TPIR and the image of Bob Barker. But still, the evidence, the lawsuits and the payoffs just keep mounting!
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Found this on Golden-Road.net
Hallstrom received millions of dollars to NOT force Bob Barker into public court which, after ten years of litigation, was certainly a financial and moral victory for Hallstrom and yes, in the legal world...a HUGE win.
Corporations don't spend millions of dollars paying off false allegations, if they did they'd be writing checks all day long. Hush money is not cheaper than litigation against false allegations. In our judicial system Barker has legal recourse against any and all false or frivolous lawsuits. A person who is genuinely falsely sued can go to court, win his case, recoup his expenses, and then collect financial remuneration under Malicious Prosecution. The fact that Bob Barker has never availed himself of his legal recourse, or challenged his accusers in court, tells me that there are darker reasons as to why all these lawsuits are always paid off out of court. While Barker publicly insists that he "wanted to fight" the allegations but that "the company settled", it turns out that's false. In 2005 Hallstrom openly challenged Barker by offering to exempt him from her settlement, thus allowing the two of them to continue to trial in open court. Barker declined, and participated in the settlement.
Obviously there was something rotten on TPIR for many years. To date, ten women have lost their jobs. The one consistent factor in all these women's firings is that Bob Barker was behind it.
In studying these cases, and their common denominator, I have come across some interesting statistics. Of the ten women who were fired, either after testifying when Barker sued Hallstrom, or after complaining of abuse/harassment on the set, two were paid NOT to file suit; Pennington and Bradley (probably because as on camera talent their lawsuits would attract major media attention as did Parkinson's and Hallstrom's). Parkinson, Hallstrom, Paris, Friem, Jordan, and Henry all received financial settlement to dismiss their suits against Barker (Riegert, and now Curling, are still pending). Hallstrom is the only one who did not sign a Non-Disclosure clause as a condition of her settlement. Of the ten women, Nick Alden represents two, Riegert and Hallstrom, and now Curling. Alden's client have received the largest settlements, including Barker's court ordered payment of Hallstrom's considerable legal bills after Hallstrom was declared the Prevailing Party in Barker's lawsuit against her. I gotta say, if I were suing Bob Barker, Alden would be the only phone call I'd make!
Obviously Freemantle, Barker and now CBS are all fighting at great expense to salvage their considerable investment in TPIR and the image of Bob Barker. But still, the evidence, the lawsuits and the payoffs just keep mounting!
AUTHOR UNKNOWN