The Gulf Coast was full of legal activity again last month, with controversial verdicts and leaked information involving the handling of claims by insurance giants State Farm Insurance and Allstate Insurance after Hurricane Katrina.
State Farm is facing trouble over several potentially incriminating e-mails that came from inside a forensics company contracted by State Farm to submit engineering reports for damaged homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The e-mails recently were posted on the web site of the Scruggs Katrina Group, a legal team who is handling many of the lawsuits stemming from insurance claim denials from Katrina. The group asserts that State Farm either denied claims or attributed damages to flooding in order to avoid paying high-dollar claims.
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