The company, owned by director Randall Miller and producer Jody Savin, are making the claims as part of its lawsuit against New York Marine, the insurer which is refusing to pay for losses on the grounds that they were incurred as a result of a criminal act.
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I cannot believe this "Midnight Rider" saga is still going on. This kind of responsibility hot potato seems to be Randall Miller's attempt to - via Film Allman - to almost redeem himself despite his jail time, and, moreover, his negligent actions. Cases and instances like this really call for transparency of process, and for films to use a proper and complete process when accessing sites that have the potential to be dangerous. It sounds as though Miller was aware that this site was a functional train track, and due to this increase in risk, Film Allman (or whoever made the call to use this particular site) should have utilized the most certain permission process, instead of finagling a kind of shady and tenuous access to the site. I am most interested in seeing how this case is ruled, especially since Film Allman is coming up against a company as large as CSX.
Is there no level that this production company will not sink to? It was bad enough in the last article when they were trying to weasel out of things with the “we were never told we couldn’t film there argument.” Now it's just getting ridiculous and depressing in equal measure. It would be one thing if there was something for them to gain out of it, but as far as I can tell there’s nothing they can get. Their insurance company’s whole thing is that they won’t pay for the losses since they were incurred as a result of a criminal act. No matter what Miller and Savin say or who they point the finger at it won’t change that Miller has already served a year in jail and signed a plea agreement on charges of criminal trespassing and involuntary manslaughter. This current case can’t change that old one So technically Miller has already admitted the losses were because of criminal activity.
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