{"id":63095,"date":"2015-01-15T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63095"},"modified":"2015-01-15T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:52:42","slug":"suit-filed-for-manhunt-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=63095","title":{"rendered":"Suit filed for manhunt costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/megna2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3436\" alt=\"megna2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/megna2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/megna2.jpg 200w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/megna2-135x175.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Fargo (CSi)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A company that was transporting an inmate, Joseph Megna, who escaped and hid for nearly a day in a North Dakota cornfield in 2011 is suing its insurance carrier for refusing to cover fines and reimbursement costs related to the escape and an ensuing manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Megna took the opportunity of a prison van rest stop break near Tower City, take off into the cornfield.<\/p>\n<p>A guard had left him and another prisoner unattended and hadn&#8217;t noticed he&#8217;d picked his cuffs, waist chain and leg irons with a bobby pin he&#8217;d found on the floor of the van.<\/p>\n<p>The escape led to a 22-hour search for Megna, who had been on his way from Florida to face first-degree child molestation charges in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers deputized to help hunt for Megna said it cost them a little more than $35,000, including the cost of harvesting the corn in which he was hiding.<\/p>\n<p>The insurance company also refused to pay a $10,000 civil penalty incurred for the transport company&#8217;s violations of Jeanna&#8217;s Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum reports that the transport company, Extradition Transport of America, of Riverside, Calif., filed suit last month in U.S. District Court in Fargo against its insurer, Houston Casualty Company.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says that it refused to pay for the cost of the search in Barnes County in part because media reports featured a conference call in which transport company representatives assured law enforcement officials from Cass and Barnes counties that insurance would take care of reimbursing them.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims that Houston Casualty breached its duty to its client by not hiring the firm its own lawyer in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Houston Casualty hasn&#8217;t filed a response to the lawsuit yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fargo (CSi)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A company that was transporting an inmate, Joseph Megna, who escaped and hid for nearly a day in a North Dakota cornfield in 2011 is suing its insurance carrier for refusing to cover fines and reimbursement costs related to the escape and an ensuing manhunt. Megna took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63098,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63095\/revisions\/63098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}