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View ArticlePlans 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...
View ArticleLa. 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...
View ArticleGroundbreaking 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...
View ArticleLa. 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...
View ArticleInsurers 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...
View ArticleABC'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...
View ArticleCourt 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleLitigation 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...
View ArticleSt. 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleParker 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleJury 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...
View ArticleJury: 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleInsurer 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleJudge: 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...
View ArticleArmy 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...
View ArticleUS 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...
View Article1st 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleKatrina 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...
View ArticleRegulator: 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...
View ArticleSettlement 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....
View ArticleJudge 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...
View ArticleTrial 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...
View ArticleKatrina 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleMiss. 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleState 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...
View ArticleJury 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...
View ArticleLouisiana 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...
View ArticleKatrina 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...
View ArticleDecision 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....
View ArticleJudge 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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