After Katrina, several insurance companies exploited the weak government oversight of insurance practices to defraud property owners and taxpayers…and saddled federal taxpayers with billions of dollars of repair and building costs that should have been paid for by insurance.
Read Federal Insurance Reform after Katrina in the Special Katrina Edition of the Mississippi Law Journal.
The author? United States Congressman Gene Taylor represents the Fourth Congressional District of Mississippi.
Oh, I forgot to mention – Congressman Taylor was slabbed by Katrina.
This cowboy has a hat – and he shoots straight in this great new resource. More from Sop to follow.
Sop here. Something wonderful is happening today. I am receiving emails from across the country such as the one I got this morning linking us to Rep. Taylor’s article. We have a news story out of Pennsylvania to cover, a link to a False Claims Act scholarly article out of Chicago plus just simple words of encouragment for presenting another side to this story. The response in terms of page views to Qui Tam Balance entry could set a single day record. I have some thoughts on Rep. Taylor’s article that I’ll share via update but for now I’ll leave our entry contribution as it is while the behind the scenes doings here at slabbed fully develop. To our new readers we bid welcome. To our new commenters dh, Beau and especially fellow coastie Duesouth we extend our warmest welcome.
I can’t wait to read the article on FCA. I was trying to find the act itself and came upon this from the US Code. I was thinking you might want to put it under the legislation tab.
Thanks so much, belle, you don’t usually see the Code in such a readable format.
Of course, that made me remember that one of the important things to remember about Qui Tam is a claim can be false without being fraud – more about that later and I’ll get the Code section up under legislation.
Thanks for the good idea and good information.