State Farm Insurance Cos. is suing Mississippi’s attorney general for allegedly violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers unsealed last week. State Farm’s lawsuit claims Jim Hood reopened a criminal probe of the Bloomington, Ill.-based company and its employees "for the purpose of harassment’’ and to coerce the insurer into settling civil litigation spawned by the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.
State Farm sues Mississippi Attorney General over criminal probe
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Litigation
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