Whoa! McIntoshes Drop All Extra-Contractual Damage Claims Against State Farm

That hammering sound you hear on the Mississippi coast isn’t coming from people boarding up for another Gulf hurricane–it’s the sound of more nails in the coffin lid of the former Scruggs Katrina Group’s once-grand plans to extort unwarranted punitive damage settlements from State Farm.

In McIntosh v. State Farm, on Monday the new attorneys for Thomas and Pamela McIntosh on Monday filed a Motion For Dismissal With Prejudice Of Extra-Contractual And Punitive Damage Claims, conceding among other things that the majority of their damage was caused by flood, that State Farm promptly paid their wind damage and the full limits of their flood policy, and that there is no credible evidence of bad faith or other conduct that would give rise to punitive damages. State Farm quicky responded and US District Judge L. T. Senter wasted no time approving. Per Anita Lee’s Sun-Herald story there’s still an issue of actual wind damages.

And if you should hear a whooshing sound, that’s just the wind being knocked out of the Rigsby sisters’ sails in ex rel. Rigsby, the qui tam case.