Hood denies improprieties in State Farm investigations

You can read it for yourself in this excellent Associated Press story by Holbrook Mohr. Looks like Jim Hood, Dickie Scruggs and Mike Moore are circling the wagons. An excerpt from the story: "I think Lee is confused and obviously bitter," Scruggs said in a telephone interview. Hood and Scruggs have been closely aligned since Hurricane Katrina. Scruggs gave the state attorney general’s office information about insurers’ practices in reviewing claims. When U.S. District Judge William Acker in Alabama ruled in June that Scruggs violated a court order for providing Hood with documents taken from a State Farm-affiliated engineering company, Hood came to Scruggs’ defense. Hood wrote a letter July 16 to U.S. Attorney Alice Martin in Alabama,