Katrina round-up

A couple items of interest: State Farm's agreement to voluntarily re-evaluate Katrina claims in Mississippi has resulted in additional payments to policyholders of $29.8 million, according to this story in the Sun Herald. Here's a kind of run-of-the-mill story about some people from Congress visiting the Gulf Coast to check up on Hurricane Katrina recovery, but these two paragraphs really jumped out at me: The delegation later told a crowd of about 500 in Bay St. Louis that a vote could come in September on a bill aimed at improving the insurance problems that Gulf Coast homeowners have experienced since Katrina.Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississippi Democrat, has proposed adding wind coverage to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created in 1968 to help homeowners living in