Also, Cyrk has reportedly failed to inform the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the Kolody suit as required by SEC regulations. From all the known facts, it appears that there may be a scam underway to rip off the insurance carrier. No great surprise. Illinois and Texas are havens for pirate insurance companies aand havens for massive insurance frauds, because of crooked state insurance regulators. Coke appears to be fraudulently shifting the multi-million dollar damage claim against them, for theft of intellectual property, so their former marketing adjunct, Simon, would take the blame to be underwritten by the insurance company.
Advertising agencies become privy to tremendous financial and political secrets of their clients.
Data on profiling would-be customers. Political trends that effect marketing products. Where the product sells the best, so as to put a related business unit right nearby. That sort of an arrangement is both unethical and may well be a violation of the U.S. Anti-Trust laws. An open secret, never mentioned in the monopoly press, is that Coke and Pepsi are substantially owned and operated by the same people.