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Pierre and Stephenson on Katrina and FEMA

John K. Pierre and Gail S. Stephenson (both of Southern University Law Center) have posted After Katrina: A Critical Look at FEMAs Failure to Provide Housing for Victims of Natural Disasters on SSRN. Heres the abstract:Disasters affect low-income victims more… … Continue reading

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State Farm hit with punitive damages for denying Katrina claim

A recent commentary in the D.C. examiner gives a succinct overview of the Mississippi case in which State Farm got hit with punitive damages for a Katrina claim. For more details, see David Rossmillers running commentary on the case in… … Continue reading

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Federal judge and State Farm settle case over Katrina damages

John Roper, Sr., a federal Magistrate Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, has settled his Katrina lawsuit against State Farm, according to this Associated Press story. Terms were not disclosed. The Southern District became the locus of… … Continue reading

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Fraudulent use of Katrina aid was so widespread no one knows how big it is

This is an excellent story from Sharon Cohen of the Associated Press.  Excellent, but depressing, because the numbers in the story indicate both that no one has any idea of how much Katrina aid was used fraudulently, and that the fraud is… … Continue reading

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E-mails, reports offered as evidence State Farm pressured engineers to change Katrina conclusions

Im not sure why this story from the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi is coming out now, after this topic has been talked up for the past 18 months.  The story discusses some e-mails between folks at an engineering firm employed by… … Continue reading

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