Insurance Law
Another Katrina Law Firm Axed Due to Scruggs Fallout
Posted May 15, 2008, 03:21 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A broad disqualification order removing law firms associated with the Scruggs Katrina Group from representing policyholders in State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. insurance coverage cases related to Hurricane Katrina damage applies to law firms that did even minimal work in cooperation with Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and his colleagues, a federal judge has ruled.
Ruling on a motion to clarify by Lumpkin & Reeves of Biloxi, Miss., U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. held this week that the firm is included in the disqualification order, even though attorney Mark Lumpkin says he had only a tiny role in the group's work, reports the Sun Herald, a southern Mississippi newspaper.
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