Back in January, Mississippi’s attorney general, Jim Hood, agreed to drop State Farm Mutual Fire and Casualty Company\u00a0from a lawsuit that his office filed against several insurance companies for refusing to cover damage to homes from Katrina’s storm surge.\u00a0\u00a0 The dismissal of the orignial lawsuit was part of a deal in which State Farm was to seek certification of a class of some 36,000 policyholders, and settle the class action<\/a>\u00a0by setting up a new claims adjudication process that would reexamine the claims of people who had not sued State Farm.\u00a0 Judge L.T. Senter Jr., reviewed the agreement and rejected<\/a> it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hood has\u00a0filed suit<\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0State Farm again, saying the company failed to honor\u00a0the\u00a0mass settlement agreement.\u00a0 Read more about it…<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in January, Mississippi’s attorney general, Jim Hood, agreed to drop State Farm Mutual Fire and Casualty Company\u00a0from a lawsuit that his office filed against several insurance companies for refusing to cover damage to homes from Katrina’s storm surge.\u00a0\u00a0 The dismissal of the orignial lawsuit was part of a deal in which State Farm was …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[60,26,29,4,36],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-class-action","tag-court-opinion","tag-hurricane-katrina","tag-insurance","tag-state-farm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n