October 26, 2007
An engineering firm that helped adjust insurance claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina is seeking to block an employee’s computer hard drive from being turned over to a federal grand jury in Mississippi. Forensic Analysis & Engineering Corp. …
October 12, 2007
The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives many residents are struggling to rebuild …
October 1, 2007
A federal trial over Hurricane Katrina damage ended abruptly with a settlement between the insurance company and the Mississippi couple whose property damage, a jury decided, had been caused by the storm’s wind and should have been covered by the …
September 24, 2007
Oral arguments in a lawsuit over whether an insurance company must pay for damage from the failure of levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina were heard by Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal on Sept. 12. In Joseph Sher …
September 19, 2007
State Farm Insurance Cos. has settled with 103 policyholders in Mississippi who challenged the company’s refusal to cover damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the homeowners said Monday. Terms of the settlement are confidential, said attorney …
September 14, 2007
A Louisiana state appeals court is weighing whether an insurance company must pay for damage from the failure of levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a case that could affect thousands of property owners in the storm-ravaged city. In …
September 7, 2007
Policy language that a major insurance company invoked to deny Gulf Coast homeowners’ claims after Hurricane Katrina is at the center of a case that was scheduled for a hearing Sept. 6 in a federal appeals court in New Orleans. …
August 27, 2007
Courts in Louisiana already inundated by a wave of litigation against insurance companies over damage from Hurricane Katrina are bracing for a last-minute barrage of lawsuit filings as a deadline nears. Thousands of Louisiana home and business owners are expected …
August 8, 2007
The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on Monday said. A team of …
August 7, 2007
A federal appeals court is poised to review a judge’s verdict last year in the first trial among hundreds of lawsuits that Mississippi homeowners filed against insurance companies in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in …