A federal grand jury on April 10 indicted a Louisiana state senator on charges he conspired to launder money for a convicted felon accused of operating an illegal insurance business. Derrick Shepherd, a lawyer from the New Orleans suburb of …
A federal grand jury on April 10 indicted a Louisiana state senator on charges he conspired to launder money for a convicted felon accused of operating an illegal insurance business. Derrick Shepherd, a lawyer from the New Orleans suburb of …
A federal appeals court threw out a $1 million punitive damage award Monday to a Mississippi couple who sued the nation’s largest insurance company over Hurricane Katrina damage. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans also ordered …
A group of Mississippi attorneys once affiliated with tort lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is barred from representing any policyholders in lawsuits against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. over Hurricane Katrina damage, a federal judge ruled last week, citing ethical …
Former Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore notified court officials that he is helping defend Richard “Dickie” Scruggs’ son and law partner, Zach, against judicial bribery charges. As attorney general, Moore teamed up with Richard Scruggs in 1994 to sue tobacco …
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims, a CDC official told a congressional panel. “In retrospect, we did not engage …
Joseph Sher blamed much of the damage to his New Orleans apartment complex on water that inundated the city when levees failed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He sued Lafayette Insurance Co. after the insurer denied most of his …
With the press of a button, a lawyer for the nation’s largest insurance company may have ended a brief truce in its bitter dispute with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. In an e-mail mistakenly sent to reporters Tuesday, a lawyer …
Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge in New Orleans dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city. …
A federal judge refused to let Mississippi jurors consider punitive damages against an insurance company after they handed down a verdict Monday that favored the insurer in a dispute with policyholders over Hurricane Katrina damage. At the end of a …
