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What Happens With Regards To The Insurance Claim In The Novel "The Rainmaker" By John Grisham?

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    John Grisham's novel "The Rainmaker" involved the protagonist, Rudy Baylor, fighting a case on behalf of a poor family, the Blacks, against an insurance company that failed to pay for their son's operation. Their son is suffering from leukemia and could not get a bone marrow transplant which could have saved his life.

    As Baylor fights his case he unearths a plot by the Great Benefit Insurance Company not to pay any of their clients at all. The Company puts up a strong defense but the Judge who is hearing the case is sympathetic of the defense and hard on insurers. In the end the Insurance Company loses and is required to pay the plaintiff 50.2 million dollars. This is far greater than the $10 million the plaintiff wanted and the $200,000 that was needed for the operation. The Insurance Company declares bankruptcy and gets away without paying any money at all.
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    Vicky 

    answered 3 years ago

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