Insurance companies' handling of Hurricane Katrina claims will be investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security thanks to Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who has a personal beef with his own homeowners insurer.
The senator–who is suing State Farm Fire & Casualty over a Katrina claim–inserted language mandating the probe into the department's 2007 appropriations bill, signed by President Bush earlier this month.
“As is well known,” said Lee Youngblood, a representative for Sen. Lott, “the senator has some concerns about the insurance industry and the way the insurance industry handled things, post-Katrina, on a number of levels.” The provision, he added, “would allow the [inspector general] to look into the insurance industry's approach to the National Flood Insurance Program and see if there were any problems” with how claims were handled.
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