{"id":7198,"date":"2007-06-12T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/propertyinsurancecoveragelaw\/2007\/06\/12\/mississippi-ag-sues-state-farm-for-breach-of-contract\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:51:49","slug":"mississippi-ag-sues-state-farm-for-breach-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com\/blog\/mississippi-ag-sues-state-farm-for-breach-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi AG sues State Farm for breach of contract"},"content":{"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 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":"\nMississippi AG sues State Farm for breach of contract | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 12, 2007 Back in 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