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1 Feb 2008, 10:16 am
”Download PDF file of In re Katrina Canal Breaches [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 7:53 am
., dismissing the consolidated class action lawsuit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the failure of the Orleans Parish outfall canals and, in particular, the 17th Street Canal that allegedly accounted for approximately 80% of the flooding of downtown New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (“In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation, No. 05-4182 E.D. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 2:28 am
" This decision is contrary to an August decision issued by the Fifth Circuit in the In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation. [read post]
21 Nov 2007, 12:47 am
Fifth Circuit on ambiguity, including In re Katrina Canal Breaches, a case that is on the exact same issue -- ambiguity of flood exclusions. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 2:01 am
It also alleged that defendants routinely delayed payment of claims or denied coverage for benefits owed to the insureds.On September 18, 2007, this case was consolidated with In re Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation¸ Case No. 05-4182, and is pending before Judge Duval. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 1:35 am
This piece Randy Maniloff wrote for the Washington Legal Foundation is an interesting take on In Re Katrina Canal Breaches, which, you may remember, was the case where federal district court Judge Stanwood Duval found the flood exclusions of several insurers to be ambiguous and unenforceable because they appeared to concern only natural flooding, not flooding where human negligence had a hand. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 6:13 am
Fifth Circuit in In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, the Louisiana Court of Appeals is considering a lower court ruling that said a flood exclusion was ambiguous in the context of man-caused flooding as opposed to "natural" flooding. [read post]
7 Sep 2007, 1:32 am
Nationwide and In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation -- I would flat out drop my red Yellowstone mug of decaf with the white moose silhouette in amazement if the result were any different in State Farm's interlocutory appeal of Tuepker v. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 3:00 am
In rejecting this argument, the Fifth Circuit cited to the its decision in the In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, which addressed the meaning of the term “flood,” as we discussed here. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 6:45 am
You might have seen that, besides the decision in the big In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation last week, the Fifth Circuit decided a couple other Katrina cases on Monday.This one, Arias-Benn v. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 1:19 am
This Times-Picayune story on the Fifth Circuit's decision in In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation made no sense to me: the decision was wrong because two of the three-judge panel were appointed by Bush and all three are from Texas and therefore don't understand Louisiana law. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 2:37 pm
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Aug. 2, 2007, in In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, No. 07-30119, that property owners in New Orleans whose buildings were flooded as a result of levee breaches in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina cannot recover losses from their insurance companies because of the flood exclusions in their insurance policies. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 9:09 pm
On August 2, 2007, the 5th Circuit decided In re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation, No 07-30119, ___F. 3d ___(5th Cir. 2007) which is a 52 page slip opinion holding that policyholders in Louisiana are not entitled to insurance coverage... [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 10:22 am
One more quick thought about In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation as we head into the weekend. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 9:14 am
Yesterday the 5th Circuit issued its 52-page opinion in In re: Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, involving Louisiana litigants. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 11:01 pm
About the Hurricane Deductible Endorsements in the In Re Katrina policies, the Fifth Circuit said this: [T]hey do nothing more than alter the deductible for damage caused by a hurricane. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 5:50 pm
In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litig., No. 07-31119 (5th Cir. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:54 pm
Here's a pdf of the decision.District Court Judge Stanwood Duval's underlying decision had said that flood exclusions in many of the policies involved in this litigation were ambiguous because they didn't specifically define floods to include water spilling out from a canal breach, due to defective construction and human error. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:43 pm
The case, In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation (5th Cir. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:43 pm
The case, In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation (5th Cir. [read post]
