Hunter Hit with Judgement

Hunter has been officially ordered to pay out to a Nevada therapist by Clark County District Court, Judge Timothy Williams, according to a report from website Onpoint News: The social worker, Shanna Downing (Plaintiff in a countersuit), won the judgment after she claimed that the suit was filed in retaliation for not testifying in the 2005 divorce case between Hunter and her ex-husband Michael Tylo (former Guiding Light, All My Children and Young and the Restless soap star). The Judge ordered that Downing be awarded…

• Special Damages: $26,879
• Attorney’s Fees/costs: $158,104
• non-economic damages: $700,000

 For a Grand Total of  $ 884,983

That’s ALOT of money Hunter has to pay this woman, and the judge is very adamant about Downing getting her award with no delays. The only option I can see that Hunter has left, is to appeal this judgement.

But I would think after going through this nightmare for 4 long years she would just pay it and be done with the headache, but then -well who has $800,000  just laying around, that they aren’t going to fight tooth and nail to keep from giving up ?(Even under a court order?) 

Sigh,what’s our girl Hunter going to do? I haven’t the slightest clue but, I think after this is over she might not want to see a courthouse for a very very very long time to come. I Hope everything works out for her.

Hunter Being Taken to Court by Manager and Others…

Dauer

 

According to recent reports from TMZ, Hunter is being sued by …”nearly everyone?” We already knew about the former therapist court case,but now here  comes something else. Poor girl just can’t catch any kind of break! 
TMZ says :  Hunter is now being sued by her manager, Marvin Dauer for up to 250 grand, her security firm (Centurion Group) and The Law Offices of Lon B. Issacson. They all claim they had done work for Tylo and that she had not paid them what was owed.The suit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court and the plaintiffs in the suit want their attorney’s fees paid, in addition to whatever Hunter has left unpaid (allegedly).      

I’m really starting to get concerned that these type of things are going on. Hunter not paying her longtime manager and security group, that is different from the lawsuit involving that NV therapist to me…but in the end they all provide services as a business and have to be paid when they do it. I believe Hunter is going through some kind of personal crisis or issues and  this is unfortunately a result of it? I hope everything is resolved and she is okay, and these people are paid.  I know in Hollywood, an actor or actress doesn’t want to get a rep. for not “paying their people.” It’s just really not a good look but we’ll see what happens.      

Hunter Facing a $750K Judgement Award in Therapist Suit…

Update-A malpractice suit that Hunter filed against the former Nevada therapist for her children, has now come to an end, and Hunter (sadly) has apparently lost BIG Time.             

According to OnPoint News, Hunter may now “have to pay over $750,000 in damages AND attorney fees to a Shanna Downing LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) from a complaint that Hunter originally filed back four years ago, in April 2006.              

Hunter as Taylor on Bold and Beautiful

 

Hunter filed the complaint according to Onpoint news, due to her belief that Downing provided “negligent treatment of her children.”              

The original filing of the complaint against this therapist arose out of sessions that were conducted with Tylo’s children because Hunter and her ex-husband Michael Tylo were going through a tumultuous divorce.              

However, in the middle of the suit, Hunter’s lawyer Patricia Vaccarino suddenly withdrew from the case and then two more lawyers withdrew from representing her in this matter as well, the most recent stepping down in December of 2009.              

 Hunter had to then take on the case pro se or represent herself in the suit. A  few weeks back, the judge in the case, Judge Timothy C. Williams, granted the defendant, Shanna Downing’s motion for summary judgement on her countersuit against Tylo (oh yeah I almost forgot: this therapist sued Hunter back), in which she alledged “abuse of process” which is like malicious prosecution (kind of like “hey you’re suing me for payback ?” kind of thing).  

In legal papers, Mrs.Downing alleged that Hunter only filed the suit as a result of Downing not testifying in the divorce proceedings on her behalf back in 2005 /2006, and basically after that it was ON!        

In the end, the judge sided with the therapist, who claimed in her countersuit, that because Hunter sued her-she had to seek help and hire her own therapist, to deal with all the emotional stress this all brought up. (Don’t laugh, I know it all sounds weird)             

Downing’s attorney, Michael J. Shannon, said in a recent hearing that Hunter had “missed many discovery deadlines and was absent during several depositions” for the case.              

He describes Hunter as becoming “kind of non-responsive”.             

             

Mr. Shannon feels that his client,could now win a substantial judgement of around $850,000 which would “reflect another year of  litigation.”              

The other defendant in Hunter Tylo’s suit-Horizon Family Therapy and Wellness has also filed to have their attorney’s fee’s awarded to them, while Vaccarino got a judgement of $61,912 against Tylo in 2008.             

So, this may have been why Taylor’s MIA on our screens on B&B, Hunter busy with this legal tug of war, four years going through this? Wow.            

That can’t be the ending she was expecting, but I do hope Hunter does the right thing (financially) and puts this all behind her as a long, drawn out but sometime needed lesson: The legal system is a CRAZY CRAZY thing, you might win one HUGE battle (The Spelling Lawsuit), but you will never win all the wars (especially if you’re not coming FULLY prepared to fight). IMO, what do you think???