NU Online News Service, June 23, 3:30 p.m. EDT

State Farm will visit Kentucky on Tuesday to speak with longtime nemesis, former attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.

Mr. Scruggs is serving a seven-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute in Ashland, Ky. He was sentenced two years ago.

The Louisiana attorney once dubbed the "King of Torts" admitted he took part in the attempted bribery of a Mississippi circuit court judge who presided over a case involving the split of attorneys' fees with another attorney in the Scruggs Katrina Group (SKG).

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