Kodrin Katrina case: Fifth Circuit vacates punitive damage award against State Farm, upholds verdict of wind damag

Kodrin v. State Farm is one of the Katrina cases, which I wrote about previously here and here. It was different from many Katrina cases in that, at least as far as what was presented to the jury, there was nothing to sort out about wind vs. water and what damage had been caused by each. So this is not one of the cases where anti-concurrent cause language became an issue -- although as I repeatedly talk about, under the facts of Katrina damage, anti-concurrent cause language should never have been an issue, because the facts of Katrina damage do not support analysis of the damage as caused by concurrent causes. I never get tired of saying this: I will be saying it in my speeches at the PLRB conference in Seattle later this month, and I probably will still be saying it when I am a