McIntosh case: fraud claim dismissed

The McIntosh v. State Farm, easily the most contentious of the State Farm Katrina cases, has long been dark and bloody ground where lawyers clashed by night. This is the case where Kerri Rigsby herself approved the flood payment, then turned around and accused State Farm of overpaying flood damage with government money to minimize the company's liability for wind. It is also the case where those dumb engineer e-mails were so incessantly touted, it's one of the cases with two engineer reports, it's the case with the note in the file that said "put in wind file, do not pay bill, do not discuss." That last part deserves some comment: it was often erroneously rendered as "do not pay claim," which the note did not say. Instead, it seems obvious that it