NEW YORK--Reacting to a report yesterday that State Farm is nearing a major Mississippi agreement over hurricane claims, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said the justice system forces in
A Mississippi official said the state is negotiating disputed Hurricane Katrina home damage claims with "almost all insurers in the state," concurrent with a report that State Farm is near a mass sett
U.S. District Court Judge Mary L. Cooper in Trenton, N.J. issued a summary judgment last week on behalf of the online dispute resolution firm Cybersettle, Inc., in White Plains, N.Y., which brought it
The new regime in the United States is exemplified by the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), which moves large class action lawsuits (i.e., those involving more than $5 million in claimed
Proper preparation for the trial of an insurance case begins not when an attorney is retained, but when the insurance company has first notice of the loss.
A recent study by two trial lawyer groups makes inflammatory statements about how insurance companies handled customers and their claims after Hurricane Katrina.
Insurance Commissioner George Dale recently vowed that the Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) will continue its devotion on getting as many claims from Hurricane Katrina paid as is possible. Dale
Claims News Service, Aug. 30, 10:40 a.m. EDT -- Insurance Commissioner George Dale recently vowed that the Mississippi Insurance Department will continue its devotion on getting as many claims from
In Louisiana, insurers have settled 658,700 homeowners' claims or 94.8 percent of expected homeowners' claims from Hurricane Katrina, totaling $10.3 billion, reported the I.I.I. In Mississippi, 334,80