A settlement conference slated to take place between State Farm and two sisters accusing the insurer of rigging engineering reports after Hurricane Katrina has been canceled.
“Based on a review of the confidential settlement documents recently submitted by the attorneys, the court is of the opinion that conducting a settlement conference at this time would not be productive and would not advance settlement prospects,” reads a Jan. 23 notice in the docket for the case in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
With the Jan. 30 settlement conference now kaput, it would seem as though State Farm and Cori and Kerri Rigsby—two former independent claims adjusters for a firm hired by State Farm after the 2005 hurricane—are headed for trial at the end of March—about seven years after the Rigsby sisters filed their whistleblower suit against State Farm
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