Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses
Last June, long before L’Affaire Scruggs was even a glimmer in the public’s eye, the Law Blog noted that a judge recommended that the feds prosecute Scruggs for violating a court order related to the handling of documents in Hurricane Katrina insurance cases. The judge was angry because Scruggs had shared with the Mississippi AG documents he received from two former employees of E.A. Renfroe, an insurance services company hired by State Farm to evaluate Katrina claims.
Now the other plaintiffs lawyers that banned together with Scruggs in the litigation — collectively known as the Katrina Litigation Group — have been barred from representing policyholders in suits against State Farm, and those two former E.A. Renfroe employees, Cori and Kerri Rigsby (they’re sisters) have been disqualified from testifying.
WSJ Law Blog
4/7/8
