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Katrina Insurance Claim Wrongfully Denied Lawsuits | Insurance Claims,...

Katrina Insurance Claim Wrongfully Denied Lawsuits Katrina Insurance Claims | Lawsuits, Lawyers | Insurance Claims, Property Damage, Bad Faith, Wrongfully Denied This years Hurricane season has done...

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Plans didn't account for area's subsidence

As they completed sections of the New Orleans area's hurricane protection system in the 1980s and '90s, Army Corps of Engineers officials assured residents the structures had been raised to standards...

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La. Commissioner Seeks to Extend Time to Sue Over Katrina/Rita Claims

Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon has issued Advisory Letter 06-04 to the approximate 100 companies with homeowners insurance policies in Louisiana, requesting their cooperation in...

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Groundbreaking Trial Could Help Decide Katrina Insurance Claims

A federal judge on Monday began hearing a groundbreaking trial that could signal whether thousands of people whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina can receive payouts for losses their...

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La. mandates hurricane claims extension

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has ordered insurers in the state to give policyholders more time to file lawsuits over unresolved hurricane claims after most insurers failed to respond to...

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Insurers told to extend deadline

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon ordered property insurance providers Tuesday to give homeowners and business owners two years to file lawsuits against them.  If insurers don't grant the...

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ABC's "20/20" claims State Farm cheated Katrina victims

State Farm Insurance has been accused of cheating policyholders out of claims filed for damages sustained by Hurricane Katrina. Two sisters who worked as independent adjusters for the Bloomington-based...

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Court upholds hurricane-insurance laws

The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld two new state laws yesterday, giving policyholders more time to sue their insurers or file claims over damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Louisiana attorney...

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State Farm underpaid on purpose, ex-workers say

Two sisters who handled Hurricane Katrina claims for State Farm have turned over records to federal and state investigators because they say the company purposely underpaid or denied coverage for wind...

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Litigation group seeks Katrina victims

Fourteen law firms,banding together as the Levee Litigation Group -urged residents of Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard parishes today to file forms protecting their rights to recover damages from the...

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St. Bernard Parish joins MR-GO lawsuit

St. Bernard Parish government leaders have long blamed the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet for the devastating flooding that swamped some 25,000 homes after Hurricane Katrina. On Wednesday, they...

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State Farm may reopen claims

Thousands of State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. policyholders on the Mississippi Coast could reopen their claims under a tentative settlement the company is working out with Attorney General Jim Hood...

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New York Times: State Farm Nears Settlement with Mississippi Katrina Victims

According to a report in today’s New York Times, State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. is close to reaching a huge settlement of hundreds of lawsuits related to Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of the...

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State Farm tries to reach accord on Katrina claims

State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. is negotiating a multimillion-dollar settlement in Mississippi on thousands of lawsuits and other disputed policyholder claims from Hurricane Katrina, people with...

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Parker Waichman LLP Retained by Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina Victims Whose...

Parker Waichman LLP (www.yourlawyer.com) announced that it has been retained by hundreds of clients in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi whose insurance claims related to damage caused by...

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State Farm must pay $2.5M in Katrina case

A Mississippi jury has ordered State Farm to pay $2.5 million in punitive damages to a Broussard, Louisiana, couple whose house was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina, according to a spokesman in the...

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Jury awards $2.5 million in punitive damages

A jury awarded a Mississippi couple $2.5 million in punitive damages in their case against State Farm Fire and Casualty on Thursday afternoon. Today's ruling is considered a sweeping decision for...

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Jury: Punitive damages in Katrina case

A jury on Thursday awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages to a couple who sued State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. for denying their claim after Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could benefit...

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State Farm Told to Pay Gulf Claim

A federal jury ordered State Farm insurance yesterday to pay a $2.5 million penalty for refusing to cover damages to a Mississippi couple’s house that was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, throwing into...

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State Farm Loses Benchmark Katrina Case

In a ruling that may have ramifications on hundreds of other lawsuits, a federal judge in Mississippi declared that State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. is liable for damage to a couple’s Biloxi home...

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Insurer admits wind led to hurricane damage

A historic agreement with State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. means up to $500 million in payments to Mississippi policyholders previously dissatisfied with their Hurricane Katrina insurance...

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Judge Rejects State Farm Settlement

In another apparent legal blow to State Farm Fire & Causalty Co., U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter rejected a Mississippi class-action settlement related to Hurricane Katrina damage, claiming that...

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Judge OKs Katrina flood suit vs. Corps

Residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims the agency ignored warnings about defects in a nearby navigation channel, a federal judge...

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Judge: Corps can be sued over flood

The Army Corps of Engineers can't assert immunity in a lawsuit over the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Katrina, because of the plaintiffs' claim that flooding stemmed from the agency's...

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Army Corps of Engineers May Be Sued Over Katrina Damage, Judge Rules

In a significant blow to the federal government, a U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers may be sued for negligence with regard to the flood damage that ravaged New...

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US Government Sued Over Levee Failure in New Orleans

In a significant blow to the federal government, a U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers may be sued for negligence with regard to the flood damage that ravaged New...

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1st La. federal insurance trial to start

Jury selection is set to start today in the first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina. In...

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New Orleans residents scramble to beat deadline for filing claims over...

Residents scrambled to beat a deadline for filing court claims against the federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers for damage resulting from the failure of levees following Hurricane...

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Katrina claims reopened

State Farm will "reopen and adjust" more than 35,000 Katrina claims, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said Monday, including those still in litigation and mediation and those that were...

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Regulator: State Farm will re-examine Katrina claims

State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and "make millions of dollars available" for additional payments, Mississippi...

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Settlement reached in Katrina lawsuit

State Farm settled out of court with a Biloxi, Miss., couple whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage was scheduled to be tried next week in federal court, a lawyer for the homeowners said Tuesday....

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Judge Says No to Class Action Against State Farm

A federal judge Thursday refused to allow a class action against State Farm Insurance Cos. over the insurer's denial of claims on Mississippi's Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. State Farm...

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Trial set for Katrina lawsuit against Allstate

After Hurricane Katrina demolished Robert and Merryl Weiss' home, the couple were paid hundred of thousands of dollars by their insurance company. But they say it isn't enough. Jury selection was to...

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Katrina suit costs Allstate $2.8M

Allstate Insurance Co. must pay a Louisiana man who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina more than $2.8 million in damages and penalties, a federal jury decided Monday in a case that hinged largely on...

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More than 200 victims of Hurricane Katrina had sued the insurer; terms of the...

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has agreed to settle out of court with more than 200 residents of Mississippi's Gulf Coast who sued the insurer over Hurricane Katrina damage, a lawyer for the...

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Miss. Attorney General to Sue State Farm

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Tuesday he plans to sue State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. because he believes the insurer failed to honor the terms of their agreement for a mass settlement of...

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State Farm Adjustment Firm Settles with Katrina Victims in Civil RICO Lawsuit

State Farm Insurance Company policy holders whose Hurricane Katrina damage claims were denied have reached a settlement with a firm that helped the company prepare damage adjustments.  Under the terms...

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State Farm Hurricane Katrina Lawsuits

Keywords: State Farm Katrina Lawyer Mississippi Lawsuit Information Bad Faith State Farm Hurricane Katrina Lawsuits The Lawyers and attorneys at our firm are offering free consultations to residents of...

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Jury Agrees with Katrina Victims

A panel of local jurors awarded Admiral James Lisanby and his wife, Gladys, the maximum that their homeowner insurance policy could pay in Katrina damage to their home as well as what they believed...

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Louisiana Citizens Settles Hurricane Katrina, Rita Lawsuits

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle two class action lawsuits over its slow response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.  The Louisiana Citizens...

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Katrina Lawsuit Against Army Corps of Engineers Will Proceed

A U.S. District Court Judge has ruled that a group of Louisiana residents whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina can proceed with a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. According...

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Decision in Katrina Levee Breach Case Gives Policyholders More Time To File...

Nearly four years after the  storm, some Hurricane Katrina victims who were unhappy with the way an insurance claim was handled will have another chance to file suit against their insurer....

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Judge Holds Federal Government Liable for Some New Orleans Flooding

Judge Susan G. Braden of the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington has ruled that the federal government must pay for some of the flooding damage from Hurricane Katrina caused by failures...

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