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U.S. EX REL. SONNIER v. STANDARD FIRE INS. CO.

Civil Action No. H-12-1065.

84 F.Supp.3d 575 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Kermith SONNIER, Plaintiffs, v. The STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

Signed January 29, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August J. Matteis, Jr., Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC, Washington, DC, C. Maison Heidelberg, Heidelberg Harmon PLLC, Ridgeland, MS, Jill Ondrejko Venezia, Office of U.S. Attorney, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Gerald J. Nielsen, William T. Treas, Nielsen, Carter & Treas, LLC, Metairie, LA, Elizabeth Attie Babin Carville, James Ordeneaux, Andrew Lane Plauche, Jr., Plauche Maselli & Parkerson, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Blanca F. Young, Munger Tolles Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA, Gregory J. Weingart, Kenneth M. Trujillo-Jamison, Munger Tolles et al. LLP, James L. Zelenay, Jr., Timothy J. Hatch, Gibson Dunn Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Matthew T. Nickel, Denton U.S. LLP, Dallas, TX, A. Brian Albritton, Scott L. Terry, Phelps Dunbar LLP, Tampa, FL, Peri Hayriye Alkas, Phelps Dunbar LLP, Samuel E. Stubbs, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Houston, TX, David F. Walker, James Hilton Crosby, Crosby Law Firm, Mobile, AL, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

This is the latest in a series of qui tam actions alleging that insurers and adjusters committed fraud in responding to hurricane damage claims. The relator, Kermith Sonnier, alleges that the defendants prepared and submitted inflated claims on flood-insurance policies backed...

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