It's amazing what the threat of a class action lawsuit can do. It's also a sad statement that it has taken so long to help victims of the hurricane. Bush friend and Mississippi governor Haley Barbour is now praising this action but one wonders where this guy has been for so long while the people of his state have been suffering. Shouldn't he have been standing up for the victims instead of helping GOP donors get juicy contracts and coddling the insurance companies?
State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and "make millions of dollars available" for additional payments, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said Monday.
