Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 — A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a $1 million punitive damage award to a Mississippi couple who sued the nation’s largest insurer over Hurricane Katrina damage. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans also ordered a new trial for the lawsuit that Norman and Genevieve Broussard filed against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. Inc. after the August 2005 hurricane.