When Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the 29th of August, 2005, construction was almost 
complete on the new home of Lori and Ambrose McMurphy insured by State Farm. The$1.3 million dollar three-story home and $650,000 in contents were lost to the storm and the property later lost to forclosure.
Their story is an all too familiar story of loss incurred from State Farm’s claim handling of property loss from the story – Katrina’s double whammy.
Although repeated time and again from one end of the coast to the other, in one area of Biloxi Katrina’s double whammy hit neighbor after neighbor – McIntosh, Mills, Bossier, McMurphy and untold others. Continue reading “Hot Spot – McMurphy v State Farm”