FOLO – A Chronology of the Katrina and Scruggs cases from mid-2006 to January 2008

A Chronology of the Katrina and Scruggs cases from mid-2006 to January 2008

Yesterday, as I was trying to sort out why Judge Senter chose to disqualify the Katrina Group lawyers at this point, I started putting together a chronology of events related to disqualification, setting them in a timeline with events in various State Farm cases (Shows, McIntosh, State Farm v Hood, Renfroe & Co. v. Rigsby, the bribery attempt and others).

These cases center around pursuit of State Farm over Katrina insurance claims and various fall-out from that. I’ll provide a small cast of characters here, all familiar to regular Folo-ers. The Rigsbys are sisters who had been working for E.A. Renfroe & Co., adjusting claims for State Farm from Katrina losses. Sometime in the Dec. 2005-Jan. 2006 time-frame, they took thousands of pages of documents relating to adjusting those claims and gave them to Dickie Scruggs, who intended to use them as evidence of State Farm fraud in adjusting claims. Dickie Scruggs was working with a group of law firms called the Scruggs Katrina Group in pursuing State Farm. At the same time, Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood had a civil case against State Farm and other insurers about the Katrina claims and was starting up a criminal grand jury investigation against State Farm.

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