ABCNews.Go.Com - Court: State Farm Committed Fraud in Katrina Case

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Indeed the Hurricane Katrina has been so devastating that it brings a lot of damage to almost any type of businesses that have been swept by it. But it would be more devastating when there are issues that are attached to it even years after the incident.

"Two Hurricane Katrina whistleblowers have shown that a State Farm insurance company committed fraud against the federal government in the mishandling of a homeowner's claim after the devastating 2005 storm, according to a federal jury in Mississippi.

The decision came Monday in the course of a long, complex legal battle between State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and former State Farm independent auditors Cori and Kerri Rigsby. In 2006, the Rigsby sisters appeared in a series of exclusive ABC News reports in which the sisters claimed they had witnessed "widespread" fraud at the State Farm offices in Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss."

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