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Insurance company pays to defend suit.(wrongful death suit against Alfred Cook)
Two men who had known each other for over 40 years, Alfred Cook and Richard Barber, got into an altercation over construction equipment. Barber said that Cook simply took the equipment. "Cook said the men struck a deal that Cook would keep the equipment in place of money Barber owed him," reported Newsday.com. The feud over the equipment, which had gone on for two years, came to a head when Barber and two other men entered Cook's house uninvited and demanded money.
Cook armed himself with a shotgun, and when Barber advanced on him, Cook shot and killed Barber. The shooting happened in February 2002. Later Cook was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, but was then sued in a wrongful death suit. He thought that his ...
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