A Mississippi couple that filed a federal lawsuit accusing State Farm of manipulating damage estimates after their home was hit by Hurricane Katrina, has withdrawn the charge.
The plaintiffs–Thomas C. and Pamela McIntosh–had sued for bad faith and sought punitive damages. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter approved their application to dismiss those claims.
A spokesman for State Farm, Phil Supple, said by e-mail that the charges in the McIntosh case were never true, but the action had formed "the centerpiece of allegations of State Farm wrongdoing promoted by" now-convicted attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.
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