Should cops lose their jobs if they dont have vehicle insurance elwoood how coud somethingf like thi

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Winnebago County Board
Finance Committee Meeting
Closed Session
County Administration Building
404 Elm Street, Room 510
Rockford, IL 61101

Monday, April 10, 2017
5:30 PM

Present: Others Present:
Ted Biondo, Chairman
Gary Jury
Burt Gerl
Dave Boomer
Steve Schultz
Jaime Salgado
Keith McDonald

Absent:
Joe Hoffman

Frank Haney, County Board Chairman
Carla Paschal, Chief Financial & Budget Officer
Bill Emmert, Assistant State’s Attorney
Kim Ponder, Human Resources Director
Tom Jakeway, Trial Court Administrator



Pending Litigation
• Regarding Mark Jurasek versus Winnebago County, a workers compensation case, it
involves a civil case and an underinsured motorist case. Mr. Jurasek is an active officer
with the County. On October 17, 2015, while in the line of duty, Mr. Jurasek’s vehicle
was hit by an at-fault driver who ran a red light and struck his vehicle. Mr. Jurasek was
taken to the emergency room and treated. A civil matter arose out of the claim, the at-
fault driver paid a sum of money to Mr. Jurasek but he was underinsured. That
underinsured policy was paid to Mr. Jurasek himself and we are allowed to take credit for
it. However, the County also has an underinsured motorist policy so we have to look at
the interplay between all three of those. Mr. Jurasek’s attorney made an initial demand of
$168,000 to close out all of the issues including the workers compensation case, as well
as his underinsured motorist litigation. After negotiations they are willing to settle all of
the claims for $117,500. That includes all future medical expenses, all lost time,
permanent disability as well as in the underinsured motorist claim any pain and suffering
in the future.
• Ms. Ponder – Our policy that we carry for our underinsureds does not have an
exclusionary piece in it for employees. It will when we renew it.
• A discussion followed.

• Mr. Emmert – Three weeks ago I brought the Kelly and Anita Cosgriff case to the
Finance Committee. It’s a civil rights case involving a free speech issue that we had to
go to mediation at the 7th Circuit. The consensus was not to offer anything. At the
mediation the Cosgriffs were really not inclined to settle but at the end they said they














Should cops lose their jobs if they dont have vehicle insurance elwoood how coud somethingf like this happen in america?

https://wincoil.us/media/271340/finance_closed_04.10.17.pdf

If they've ticketed other drivers for not having insurance, then yes.

https://wincoil.us/departments/county-board-office/county-board-members/

https://wincoil.us/departments/county-board-office/county-board-members/
not by the book supper cop. bad people cop, arrested someone in with autism in their backyard autism shooting a beebee gun. The person in with autiusm in booking was unable to move.

Isn't the county having an underinsured provision in their insurance the insurance company covering it? I know it has to be argued, but it seems like standard procedure to get the officer covered. I am not sure how it works with police vehicles, but as a business owner who had people driving a company vehicle I had to have insurance for that person, the vehicle, and the potential injuries that could result from an accident. My personal vehicle liability coverage was a different policy and if I was driving the vehicle for work purposes an injury claim for myself would have gone through the business insurance rather than my personal automobile liability coverage even though I was the owner operator of the business.

Your opening post seems really about what insurance company is going to pay from what account. Your question is a little bit vague, but the reality is my personal car insurance will not cover me at all if I am driving for another business as far as I am aware. If my personal car insurance were to lapse I could still drive a business car that was insured and registered.

"Our policy for our underinsureds accidentally covers our employees"?

I assume "underinsured" means "had insurance that met the legal requirements, but left gaps in coverage that resulted in the person being out a bunch of money."

Does Baba live in Twin Peaks? There seems to be a lot of drama in his town.

Yeah, so wouldn't your employees be the number one group you'd want that to protect?

I'm honestly a little confused as to why the employee's personal insurance was involved at all, since the accident was on the clock, but I'm guessing he was using a personal vehicle and the insurance companies hammered out some kind of pecking order...