{"id":10947,"date":"2011-11-09T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2011-11-09T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:21:07","slug":"clothing-storeowner-insurance-company-settle-attorneys-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/clothing-storeowner-insurance-company-settle-attorneys-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing storeowner, insurance company settle attorney&#8217;s fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The owner of a clothing store in Garapan that burned down last year has settled the insurance company&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s fees.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Ramon K. Quichocho, counsel for Zheng Rui Brother Corp., notified the U.S. District Court for the NMI on Monday about the settlement they reached with FirstNet Insurance Co.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona found Zheng Rui Brother Corp. liable to pay FirstNet Insurance Co. for the costs of filing a motion to compel Zheng Rui Brother to produce requested documents.<\/p>\n<p>In granting FirstNet Insurance Co.&#8217;s motion to compel discovery, Manglona determined that FirstNet complied with the requirement of federal and local procedure rules to confer in good faith to obtain discovery without court action.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona found that Zhen Rui Brother Corp. is liable to pay FirstNet with its costs in filing the motion.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Richard W. Pierce, counsel for FirstNet, said that 6.799 hours were spent in filing the motion to compel, costing $1,427.79.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 30, 2010, a fire broke out at the BL Clothing Store owned by Zhen Rui Brother Corp.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2011, the fire policy insurer, FirstNet, through counsel Richard W. Pierce, sued Zhen Rui Brother Corp. for allegedly deliberately setting off the fire so that the owner could claim $404,718.53 in insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Zhen Rui Brother Corp later filed a counterclaim against FirstNet, alleging breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, insurance bad faith, and unfair or deceptive business practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter The owner of a clothing store in Garapan that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}