Oh Mr. Ed,

His checkride skills are "not up to par" is crap, were you there when he took the checkrides?? Were you there to see if he has "checkrideits", or how about if he had some anal examiners. I don't think so!!!!

Shove the money to flight standards and you'll never fail. Go take a ride from a real examiner and see how you do.

I have failed three myself however, I learned what to do and have established an excellent track record since. So what is my "diagnoses?"

You are in no shoes to determine "crap". By your "diagnoses" your medical abilities must "suck". Getting sued lately, must be if your curious about airline jobs even though you say you're retired. Well I think I stirred the sh$$ pot now, let the coments fly......LOL

Again, to the original question. Companies will ask you to explain the checkrides, as long as you can build up a good track record all should be good. Every company knows examiners can be tough at times, anyone can have a bad day.
With three of them you could say the answer I used was,

"I felt the training in relation to the checkride(s) to be pretty substandard, however I did not give up I took the checkride(s) did the best to my ability however the result was a dissaproval notice, retrained and passed on the second attempt. I learned that I had to be more aggresive on studying not only knowledge but profilies and manuevers. I've taken those measures since then I've been successful and have not failed since."

Again, explaining the situation but also accepting responsibility and being honest.