Lee – State Farm practices described in qui tam hearing
State Farm decided within days of Katrina it was storm surge that obliterated Coast homes near the waterfront, a State Farm claims manager has testified, instructing adjusters to pay federal flood claims but wait for investigations to determine if the company owed money for wind damage.
State Farm claims manager Alexis “Lecky” King described how the company approached adjustment of flood claims paid by the federal government, versus claims filed with State Farm for damage caused by wind and rain. Her pretrial testimony, called a deposition, was taken in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed against State Farm and two of its vendors.
A hearing in the lawsuit, filed by former insurance adjusters Cori and Kerri Rigsby of Ocean Springs, enters its second day today before U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. in Gulfport.
Sun-Herald
5/21/9
Magnolia Tribune
