GOVERNOR SNYDER'S SECOND APPOINTMENT OF SAME EMERGENCY MANAGER: "KNOWN LOSS" OR "FORTUITOUS?"

Long after Emergency Manager Darnell Earley presided over Flint's 'money saving' switch to polluted and untreated water which has poisoned many children, Michigan Governor Snyder appointed Mr. Earley as Emergency Manager once again.  This time Governor Snyder appointed Mr. Earley as the Emergency Manager for the Detroit Public Schools where children are expected to learn under some horrible physical conditions.

When claims are filed to remedy the Detroit Public School conditions, instead of blaming teachers for the conditions as Mr. Earley and those who appointed him do, will the taxpayers of Michigan be able to claim insurance coverage because the results are "fortuitous?"

Or will the taxpayers be denied all coverage because the results of the appointment were a "known loss?"

Paul Egan, "Is Emergency Manager Law to Blame for Flint Water Crisis?" (Detroit Free Press Online, posted October 25, 2015).

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