Actually a counter suit.........nothing In a prior suit, Bennett sought to have the company pay legal expenses and other costs associated in defending regulatory actions in the U.S. soil treatment case. Bennett won the case, as well as subsequent appeals by the company.
In an email, Bennett’s lawyer said the original trial judge concluded that BEI had failed to establish that Bennett had acted “in bad faith or unlawfully” and ordered it to indemnify him.
On Tuesday, Bennett said he has received some of the money under the original ruling but that he was still owed some $1 million.
Meanwhile, he described his current legal action as a countersuit, since the company sue him “six or seven years” ago for some $10 million, but hasn’t followed up.
“That was a frivolous lawsuit ... They’ve been trying to dry me out, to take all my funds off me so I couldn’t defend myself. They almost did it, but not quite.”