The Rainmaker

Cooper Jackson is in the courtroom to watch Rudy finish off Great Benefit. He and two other lawyers, who are also in attendance, plan on filing suit against the insurance company soon, after Rudy’s inevitable victory.

Drummond’s witness is André Weeks, a Deputy Commissioner of Insurance for the state of Tennessee. Drummond’s goal is to try and show that Great Benefit is actually a good company, and that what happened to Donny Ray was not done on purpose, or was because of any nefarious plot on the part of management. Drummond tries to get Weeks to show that the Blacks’ policy is standard and that Great Benefit has never run amiss of the Commission before. Rudy’s counter is to ask Week’s specifics about the policy, showing just how difficult it is to find specifics in the fine print. Rudy also shows that, though the Commission has good intentions, it is too small of an organization to police giant insurance companies like Great Benefit.

Drummond’s next witness is Payton Reisky, the Executive Director and President of the National Insurance Alliance. Drummond wants Reisky to show what a good, honest company Great Benefit is. Reisky drones on for hours, arguing that “Great Benefit had every right to deny this