Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim. Batesville attorney Richard “Flip” Phillips, who seeks to represent …
A month after Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon called on insurers to voluntarily extend the one-year deadline for customers to file suits for unsettled claims related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, not a single private company has done so. The …
The owners of the sagging, flood-stained home in New Orleans aren’t in. Above the front door, a banner explains their absence, and the lack of progress: “Allstate paid $10,113.34 on this house for storm damage.” Like the home next to …
Harrison County, Miss. supervisors are opposed to the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association’s request to raise insurance rates by as much as 397.8 percent, but the opposition comes as no surprise to Insurance Commissioner George Dale. The association provides coverage for …
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. refuses to engage in the appraisal process in Mississippi to resolve Hurricane Katrina claims, even though its own policy mandates appraisal on demand when the amount of an insured loss is in dispute. Instead, …
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s recent comments comparing the insurance industry to Nazis are “hysterical and irresponsible,” claims an insurance trade group leader. “Now that Hood’s inspired exercise in justice has met some resistance, his public rhetoric seems to get …
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has sharply criticized insurers’ denial of Hurricane Katrina claims in Mississippi, saying companies are “in lockstep like Nazis locking arms, coming at those people down there on the coast.” Hood has a lawsuit pending in …
A federal judge in Gulfport, Miss. has refused to throw out a lawsuit that a couple filed against Allstate Insurance Co. after the insurer refused to cover damage to their home from Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit, filed by Elmer and …
An engineering company altered a report to eliminate the significant role wind played in severely damaging the home of an elderly Gulfport, Mississippi couple during Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, a lawsuit claims. The suit, which represents only one side …
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, public officials and insurance experts predicted that the vast majority of property losses from the most costly flood in U.S. history would be uninsured. But data from the office of Donald Powell, the Bush …