The NEB has been given a deadline where they have to kick the case back to the insurance company or that option is gone. The NEB is going to do exactly that.You heard that right, over half a million dollars into beating back the frivous lawsuit and we are going back to square one. This is an indictment of a totally incompetent troop of buffoons, incompetent to the point of scary.
The NEB and legal counsel had been actively researching and studying this issue for over a year. They reversed themselves within six hours after the resolution passed and just before it was announced that Forrey had been named in the suit, himself, for his use of the blog in question when corresponding with FAA management about Gilding's return to PHX in August of 2007.
Shazam!!! What a coincidence! It took another two weeks for the NEB to "study' the situation. Translation: It took another two weeks for the NEB to circle the wagons, get their story straight and craft what they knew would be an unpopular decision when released. At the same time they attempted to end once and for all the incessant appeal for support for brothers John Carr and Bob Marks; hoping, that once they made the absurd announcement that the law prevents them from coming to their aid we would all go back to sleep.
These titans of fiduciary genius, the guardians of NATCA's coffers that beat back Carr's and Mark's, and later the convention delegation's feeble attempts to ensnare NATCA in costly litigation that placed our treasury at risk then went on to cancel the insurance that actually did cover Forrey, Johnston and Palmer. We find ourselves ensnared in costly litigation and our treasury is at risk. Now we have spent over $550,000.00 of our assets, forked over to legal genius, Osbourne/Eckstein et al. We are leaking another $25,000.00 to $50,000.00 a month. That's money thrown down a rathole instead of using our bought and paid for insurance that protects us from things like frivolous lawsuits. Now NATCA really and truly is at risk when they were not before and it is due directly to actions taken in concert by a united and unanimous NEB. How many arbitrations does $550,000.00 buy anyway? Now the NEB is going back to the insurance company before it is too late. Why? Because NATCA cannot afford to have this go to court and risk a ruling.
