George Dale: insurance companies paid Katrina money they did not owe

This is a fascinating story by Anita Lee of the Sun Herald -- reacting to the Fifth Circuit's decision yesterday in Tuepker v. State Farm, outgoing Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale said as follows:"All these people on the Coast who have criticized me for being in bed with insurance companies and not doing my job only have to look at what the courts have said in the Nationwide case and the State Farm case and see the absolute thousands of claims that were paid that, based on these two cases, were not covered perils," Dale said after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld language in State Farm insurance policies. I have no doubt that preliminary adverse rulings in the Leonard v. Nationwide and Tuepker cases had something to do with the climate where ins