An Atlanta businessman whose cancer detection laboratory was driven into the ground during an eight-year battle with the federal government has asked a judge to stop his insurers from settling a defamation case brought by the man behind the FTC probe. 

Michael Daugherty and his defunct company, LabMD, are seeking an emergency temporary restraining order to stop his insurer, Sentinel Insurance Co. and its parent, The Hartford, from paying $750,000 to Robert Boback in what Daugherty claims is an illegal attempt to settle without his consent a 2013 lawsuit arising from Daugherty’s self-published book, “The Devil Inside the Beltway.”

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]