Imagine having to file not one, but two, lawsuits against your insurer in an attempt to resolve your Katrina damage claim! That’s exactly the situation facing Henry and June Kuehn – a couple with by far the most interesting case in the small sample I selected at random from the approximately 200 insurance cases in [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carol Byram sees paradise every time she gazes at the dogwood, hackberry and cherry laurel trees in the backyard of her New Orleans home. The federal government sees the seeds of another disaster for a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Continue>>> More: continued here Tags: 2008, Dog, E, GA, Government, [...]
Seen in the Orlando Sentinel: Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet had told the state’s risk managers to find potential buyers for as much as $11 billion in bonds that would be needed to pay claims if the state is racked by a Katrina-sized hurricane. But with financial markets in tatters, state money managers [...]
Presidential candidate John McCain is coming to Louisiana tomorrow. He’ll have a rally in Kenner (“America’s City!”), and a town hall meeting and fundraiser in Baton Rouge. Governor Jindal, “The New True Champion of the Right”, will host the fundraiser. (Update: lj4a has more.) Recently, the T-P’s Stephanie Grace wrote a column titled “Katrina a [...]
WASHINGTON – Within days of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in August 2005, frantic officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered nearly $2.7 billion worth of trailers and mobile homes to house the storm’s victims, many of them using a single page of specifications. Continue More: continued here Tags: 2008, E, Home, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, The
Image via Wikipedia The Disqualification Wars continue. First, after an initially unsuccessful effort by State Farm late last year to disqualify Dickie Scruggs from Katrina litigation on ethics grounds, Scruggs in essence disqualified himself on, uh, ethics grounds. Then State Farm — with new evidence gained in depositions including further depositions of the “whistleblower” Rigsby [...]
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