GULFPORT, Miss. AP – Even as the Mississippi attorney general negotiates a potential settlement with State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., an eight-person jury will begin hearing opening statements Tuesday in one of hundreds of insurance lawsuits filed by policyholders after Hurricane Katrina.
By seating the jury of four women and four men to hear the lawsuit brought against State Farm by Norman and Genevieve Broussard, U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. rejected the insurer’s bid to move the proceedings to Oxford, Miss., 300 miles from the Gulf Coast.
