Richard Scruggs' Response to State Farm

JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- I regret that Mississippi's largest insurer has stopped writing new policies for homeowners. The balanced settlement we presented to Judge Senter could have prevented this and started sizeable checks flowing to thousands of Mississippi Gulf Coast families by summer. At this point in time, the judge chose to block the agreement. State Farm's extreme reaction could surely hinder the Coast's recovery and jeopardize new home mortgages throughout Mississippi.

Our legal team will continue to pursue this balanced resolution to head off an all-out economic war for our state. It's time for everyone to take a deep breath and think through the consequences of their actions.

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The Scruggs Katrina Group is a legal team consisting of Mississippi attorneys from the following firms: Don Barrett and Marshall Smith of the Barrett Law Office; Johnny Jones, Steve Funderburg, and Stewart Lee of Jones, Funderburg, Peterson, Sessums, and Lee; Dewitt Lovelace of the Lovelace Law Firm; David Nutt, Meg McAllister, and Derek Wyatt of Nutt & McAllister, PLLC, and Richard Scruggs, Sid Backstrom, and Zach Scruggs of the Scruggs Law Firm. For more information go to http://www.scruggskatrinagroup.com/