Hurricane Katrina News
20 Years Later, Hurricane Katrina’s Impact Echoes in Models, Mitigation and Reforms
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swamped parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, the property insurance sector is better prepared for another catastrophic storm and the litigation that may follow, ...
Rebuilding Continues 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn't want to live there. "People are always going to gravitate to the water," ...
When Luck Runs Out: Where $100B Hurricanes Might Happen
Lists published every hurricane season, adjusting the amounts of insurance losses for past events for inflation to current-dollar levels, give a misleading picture of the potential for a single event ...
Gulf Coast Hurricane Risks Rising, Scientist Warns
The Gulf Coast of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes, a scientist has warned in a new study, 20 years after Katrina devastated New Orleans and hundreds of miles of coastline. ...
State Farm Agrees to Settle Katrina Claims Lawsuit With Mississippi AG
Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate ...
State Farm to Pay $100 Million to Federal Government for Hurricane Katrina Claims
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and two former claims adjuster sisters, who more than 16 years ago filed a lawsuit claiming the insurer committed fraud against the government's National Flood ...
SCOTUS Skeptical About Tossing State Farm Hurricane Fraud Jury Verdict
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared unlikely to throw out a jury verdict against State Farm that found the insurance company defrauded the U.S. government when it assessed damage caused by ...
State Farm Gets Supreme Court Hearing for Katrina Billing Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.'s bid to overturn a finding that the insurance company fraudulently overbilled the government for damage from Hurricane Katrina. ...