With lawsuits over contested Hurricane Katrina insurance claims continuing to rumble into federal court, the attorney for an insurance trade group said today that the prospect of such litigation is endless.

“This is going to go on for years and years,” said Robert Hurns, a counsel for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).

Mr. Hurns made his comments in the wake of a prospective class action being filed against 15 insurers in a U.S. District Court in Louisiana, and a federal judge in Mississippi ruling that State Farm policy language on hurricane coverage was unclear.

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