Kenneth Abraham article on Katrina

The folks at the University of Virginia Law Review sent me a link a few weeks back to this short article on Hurricane Katrina insurance issues by Kenneth Abraham, a law professor at Virginia. I think highly of Prof. Abraham's work, and cited his writing on mandatory rules, default rules and the role of standard form contracts in my upcoming anti-concurrent cause article in Appleman's. (And yes, it is indeed coming shortly, I got the final proof from the printer yesterday and have made the last corrections, it should be all done shortly and up on this blog). This Abraham article contains an interesting assertion about actions that were taken by courts and public officials to create an incentive for insurers "to settle Katrina claims rather than to force the courts to confront head