Corps: Levees Should Hold In New Orleans
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The Associated Press
Published: Tue, January 29, 2008 - 1:10 pm
appeal a federal jury verdict against his lawsuit against his
insurance company.
The jury ruled in Gulfport, Mississippi, that USAA Casualty
Insurance must pay an additional $64,000 to David and Marilyn
Aiken. That's for Hurricane Katrina wind damage to their Pass
Christian, Mississippi, vacation home and its contents.
But U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. refused to let jurors
consider punitive damages against the San Antonio-based insurance
company.
USAA already has paid $178,204 to the Aikens, who had total
coverage limits of $582,750 for the dwelling and its contents. The
couple also had a separate, federally subsidized flood policy that
paid them $278,000.
The Aikens had accused San Antonio-based USAA and the Houston
engineering firm Rimkus Consulting Group of conspiring to deny the
couple's damage claim.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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