The main focus of the movie, "The Rainmaker" involves Rudy Baylor in assisting Mrs. Dot Black with her leukemia-stricken son Donny Ray. This was a negligence law suit and in order to win, Rudy Baylor and his associate Deck Shiffler needs to prove four points. They needed to prove duty of care, breach of duty, causation and damage. .
Mrs. Black has paid all of her insurance bills and thus is entitled to health insurance provided by her insurance company, Great Benefit. However, Great Benefit breached their duty and failed to do their duty by refusing to pay for the costly transplant procedure. Her request for a claim had been denied eight times with the final letter saying "You must be stupid, stupid, stupid" because of her relentlessness. The cause in effect which was the direct line was that Mrs. Black's son Donny Ray was dieing because of leukemia. And the proximate cause which was the foresee damage was that Donny Ray was eventually going to die because of leukemia. The last point needed to be proven is damage, and it was easily proven because during the trial Donny Ray was already dead. .
The insurance company, Great Benefit had tried to change it to a negligence tort, that the leukemia had been done by some other cause. Great Benefit defends itself on the grounds of a variety of blatantly bad-faith reasons: Claiming that the leukemia was a preexisting condition, and that Donny Ray is an adult emancipated from his parents and thus legally responsible for himself. Stated that the policy covered only household members, and included the supposed fact that bone marrow transplants are experimental. Also, they stated the fact that the Black's health plan didn't cover experimental procedures at the time. In order to counterattack, Rudy Baylor counteracts all the defendants" arguments showing the faults in each argument as well as the other half of the story left in the shadow by Great Benefit.
Rainmaker The Rainmaker is a movie that takes the viewer on the ride with a lawyer during his first trial. This is not only his first trial, but this is his first experience as a lawyer. Rudy is newly hired into a firm with one of his first cases being a "Rainmaker." He gets involved with th...
Rainmaker The Rainmaker is a movie that takes the viewer on the ride with a lawyer during his first trial. This is not only his first trial, but this is his first experience as a lawyer. Rudy is newly hired into a firm with one of his first cases being a "Rainmaker." He gets involved with this f...
Structure, as it relates to John Grisham's "The Rainmaker," must be broken into two distinct categories called, for the purposes of this essay, physical structure and narrative structure. ... "The Rainmaker" is John Grisham's sixth novel. ... In the case of "The Rainmaker," the point of view is exclusively first person. ... I"d be an instant rainmaker, a bright young star with a golden touch. ... John Grisham masterfully uses elements of narrative structure to craft his novel "The Rainmaker." ...
2) Book Review "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham, is about a young lawyer named Rudy Baylor who is graduating from law school and needs a job. When the job that he is supposed to have is given to someone else, he finds himself having to settle for a job with a law firm that isn't exactly on its way...
There is somebody in the future who is known as the "rainmaker" who unifies all of the major organized crime syndicates and families in a period of a few months. This "rainmaker" is apparently somebody born in the Kansas City area where Joe resides, around the same time as the Looper program, with a specific birth date, a child. The rainmaker is the person in the future who is aggressively "closing loops" therefore he could be stopped and this whole series of event can be prevented from happening. His thought is that if he can stop the rainmaker, then he could sto...
Title: The Rainmaker Author: John Grisham City: Random House Inc. New York, New York Pages: 598 Summary: Rudy Baylor, a law student, was looking forward to an internship at a prestigious firm but it didn't go quite as he planned. The firm he had been invited to work for was purchased by a mu...
He started to write novels as a hobby; then he was named "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" after writing A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament. ... He started to write novels as a hobby; then he was named "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" after writing A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament. ...
