SOUTH CAROLINA (WTGS) — The insurance company that apparently paid off a false claim by lawyer Alex Murdaugh after the death of his housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, has a new lawsuit citing Murdaugh’s “depravity” along with details in the housekeepers death.
“The scope of Murdaugh’s depravity is without precedent in Western jurisprudence,” says the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court by Nautilus Insurance Company.
Murdaugh had a $5 million umbrella insurance coverage policy with the company.
In its lawsuit, Nautilus does not say exactly how much it paid out to Murdaugh or alleged associates for the death of Satterfield. However, court documents filed in state court claim Murdaugh agreed to sign a “confession of judgment” that he stole $4.3 million in insurance proceeds from Satterfield’s respective heirs.
Defendants are listed as Murdaugh, his lawyer Cory Fleming, and Chad Westendorf, a bank official at Palmetto State Bank, who the lawsuit claims played a role in the alleged scheme to move the insurance money from the Satterfield heirs to Murdaugh and Fleming.
Palmetto State Bank of Hampton and Fleming’s former law firm, Moss & Kuhn of Beaufort, were also listed as defendants in the lawsuit.
Murdaugh and Fleming face criminal charges in another scheme that says they were trying to take money from the Satterfield’s heirs, Michael “Tony” Satterfield and Brian Harriott, insurance proceeds.
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