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Kelvin Mace

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1. This is the type of lawsuit that gives lawyers

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 05:56 PM

Feb 2013

wet dreams.

It will all boil down to the language of the contract and whether there is any proviso dealing with retroactive stripping of the title. If the contract simply says he will be awarded money for winning the title, he technically did win, but later had the win invalidated.

Suits like this show off the law at its sleaziest.

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Insurance company to sue Lance Armstrong for millions in bonus prizes [View all] alp227 Feb 2013 OP

This is the type of lawsuit that gives lawyers Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #1

If he had the slightest shred of integrity, Armstrong would simply give the money back kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #2

Abso-frakkin-lutely! Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #4

Yeah! Just like every other professional athlete who was ever suspended for PED gave back ... 11 Bravo Feb 2013 #7

I'm not talking about anybody else at the moment. I'm talking about Armstrong. kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #15

Did the insurance company lose money because he cheated? Incitatus Feb 2013 #3

They lost the bonus money. That's fraud. nt wtmusic Feb 2013 #6

True, naaman fletcher Feb 2013 #9

The fact that they paid the money is indisputable wtmusic Feb 2013 #11

Easy... naaman fletcher Feb 2013 #12

Doesn't work that way. wtmusic Feb 2013 #13

Well, naaman fletcher Feb 2013 #14

But in this case the insurance company took the car home, liked its looks and drove it around cstanleytech Feb 2013 #18

I don't know what the statute of limitations is wtmusic Feb 2013 #19

Like I said it all depends on what the contract says. cstanleytech Feb 2013 #21

Exactly naaman fletcher Feb 2013 #8

Yes, they did lose money (he sued them for some of it, first); no, they're not a sponsor muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #17

They'll have to catch him first... KansDem Feb 2013 #5

Poor Lance, he just ran or biked with the wrong crowd magic59 Feb 2013 #10

I didn't know Georgie actually biked u4ic Feb 2013 #16

This is one rare exception where roxy1234 Feb 2013 #20

Why would Armstrong confess? AngryAmish Feb 2013 #22