State Farm, after losing a Hurricane Katrina home damage case to the tune of $2.7 million, is due before the same judge in Mississippi federal court to try a case with a similar fact pattern in 10 days.

Jack L. Denton–the Biloxi, Miss. attorney representing the plaintiff in the next case, scheduled for Jan. 22 in U.S. District Court in Gulfport, Miss.–said after Thursday's verdict he was “obviously pleased with the result.”

Judge L.T. Senter Jr., in a case brought by Norman and Genevieve Broussard of Biloxi, ordered the insurer to pay the couple their full policy value of $233,292, and found that State Farm's conduct exposed it to punitive damages, which the jury set at $2.5 million.

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