KATRINA ARCHIVE
Editor’s Note: some of the information in this library may be superseded or outdated. For more information visit the Katrina (Water Damage) Library homepage.
Washington Post – Claim Delays
- Fine Print Exclusions (NPR Story)
- Whistleblower helping build case against insurer in Hurricane Katrina lawsuit
A. Rulings and Decisions by Judges
- Judge: Policy Exclusions Not OK
- Judges Play Katrina Suits Down Middle, Peter Geier, National Law Journal (pdf)
- Judge Gives Katrina Flood Victims Hope, Associated Press, Nov. 29, 2006
B. Public
- How Will Homeowners Insurance Litigation Play Out (pdf)
- MS. A.G. Says State Farm Pressuring Experts to Alter Causation Reports
- Judge Lets Miss. AG See State Farm Papers, Associated Press, April 11, 2006
- Daniel Hays, Attacks on Flood Exclusion Could Batter Katrina Insurers, National Underwriter Property& Casualty (pdf)
- Hurricane Victims Begin Filing Suits, Claims Magazine (October 2005) (pdf)
C. Private
- Court sides with homeowners, pnj.com, Oct. 28, 2006
- Barasich v. Columbia Petition (pdf)
- Lawsuit Against Nationwide (Scruggs) (pdf)
- MS. Lawsuit (Scruggs) (pdf)
- Levee breaks as a factor
- Arguing for Coverage – AIR
- Katrina Victims Say Agents Advised Against Flood Coverage (pdf)
D. Florida
- Court sides with homeowners, pnj.com, Oct. 28, 2006
- Condo Associations in FL victimized by lowballing and strong arm tactics, July 12, 2007
E. Louisiana
- Time for suing insurer extended
- Appeals court revives Katrina insurance case
- Class Action Suit Filed in New Orleans Against 15 Homeowners Insurers
- LA Attorney General Summary Judgment Motion for Finding 739 and 802 Constitutional (pdf)
- Suffern v. CountrywideHome Loans, Inc. (pdf)
- La. Insurers not Voluntarily Extending Policy Deadlines, Insurance Journal, July 11, 2006
- Plaintiffs Crowd Civil Courthouse, www.nola.com, Aug. 29, 2006
- Judge Gives Katrina Flood Victims Hope, Associated Press, Nov. 29, 2006
- Duval decision in consolidated Katrina insurance/canal breach litigation
- Settlement Is Possible in Storm Suits, www.nytimes.com, Feb. 20, 2007
- Allstate Ordered to Pay $2.06 Million in Katrina Case, www.bloomberg.com, April 17, 2007
- Allstate unit pricing challenged, www.nola.com, May 20, 2007
- Evidence suggests Allstate inflated claim to Nat’l Flood Ins. program, www.nola.com, May 20, 2007
- Gov’t May Join Qui Tam Suit Alleging Insurers defrauded Taxpayers/NFIP, Chicago Tribune, July 7, 2007
- 2 Katrina insurance cases go before La. court, www.usatoday.com, Feb. 26, 2008
- La. justices hear arguments on Katrina’s waters, www.nola.com, Feb. 27, 2008
- Louisiana’s high court upholds flood exclusion, www.businessinsurance.com, April 14, 2008
- Insurer ordered to pay grocer: $21 million awarded for Katrina damage, www.nola.com. June 4, 2008
F. Mississippi
- Policyholders settle State Farm lawsuits
- MS. Judge Rules Against and For State Farm on Katrina Coverage
- Miss. Lawsuit Alleges Engineer Altered Katrina Damage Report
- Judge Sues Nationwide for Denying His Claim After Katrina, Insurance Journal, April 21, 2006
- May ’05 MS. suit re: Biased State Farm Engineering Reports
- Some State Farm exclusions found unenforcable as ambiguous, CNN, May 25, 2006
- Federal judge finds insurer not compelled to cover Katrina-related water damage?
- Attorneys Arrive in Miss. for Opening of First Katrina Insurance Lawsuit, Insurance Journal, July 11, 2006
Buente v. Allstate case –
- The decisions on the two motions
- Buente Motion 1 (pdf)
- Buente Motion 2 (pdf)
- Senter will not disqualify clerk
- Judge Senter opinion denying class cert for “slab” cases in MS (pdf)
- Class-Action Status Is Denied to Katrina Suits in Mississippi, www.nytimes.com, March 23, 2007
- Former state regulator comments on Leonard v. Nationwide (Katrina case), www.irmi.com, October, 2006
- $1M Katrina Insurance Verdict Appealed, www.chron.com, Dec. 4, 2007
- Group settles 22 Katrina cases with State Farm, www.sunherald.com, Jan. 4, 2008
- Katrina group leader settles suit, www.sunherald.com, Feb. 23, 2008
- State Farm settles Katrina case in Mississippi, www.sunherald.com, April 25, 2008
G. Texas