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Assets to be liquidated to pay judgment to 82-year-old widow, an order Terminix refuses to pay.
MOBILE, Alabama (Newswire.com) – March 30, 2020 (Newswire) -On Monday, the Mobile County Sheriff’s office served a writ of execution, which allowed it to seize computer equipment, hand-held devices, and other hard drives as a consequence of Terminix refusing to pay a final and binding arbitration award.
As many in the Gulf Coast area know, Terminix has been under scrutiny for drastically raising its annual renewal premiums. According to Tom Campbell, founder of the Birmingham and Mobile based law firm, Campbell Law PC, “This time Terminix has gone too far in refusing to pay the final judgment from an arbitration to an 80-year-old widow from Mobile.”
The widow’s lawyer, known by many as “Termite Tom,” says, “We will continue to seize assets until our client receives every nickel Terminix was ordered to pay to her. We are in the process of seizing computers and electronic devices the company has in branch offices across Alabama, and we’re also working to domesticate the judgment in Memphis, Tennessee, to obtain the computers and back-up systems located at Terminix’s company headquarters. After our IT personnel scour these hard drives for information to assist with our collection efforts, we will begin auctioning off these assets to the highest bidder on the Courthouse steps.”
Campbell added that, to the extent permissible, he will be present to bid on the assets, stating their contents would allow his firm to help more homeowners in Mobile and Baldwin Counties.
“Terminix has raised a lot of powerful eyebrows by increasing annual renewal premiums – sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars,” says Campbell. “Rather than providing the services it promised to provide, was already paid to provide, and was sometimes ordered by the regulators to provide, Terminix chose instead to run off tens of thousands of customers in the area.”
According to Campbell, the Alabama Attorney General’s office has begun seeking information from Terminix and other sources regarding what is likely a violation of Alabama’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Campbell hopes Attorney General Marshall will not let Terminix abuse the tens of thousands of customers that the company abandoned: “My law firm has offered to help with these efforts in any way we can, provided that the relief sought makes whole every homeowner cheated by Terminix.”
Termite Tom urges homeowners to encourage their local District Attorney and the Attorney General to use the full power of the law to protect the citizens of Alabama. He says, “Our elected officials have the responsibility to hold this multibillion-dollar company accountable!”