Judge Orders State Farm To Pay $100M Per Settlement, Tosses False Claims Act Suit

Mealey's (August 22, 2022, 11:55 AM EDT) -- GULFPORT, Miss. — The same day relators and State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. filed a joint stipulation of dismissal that the United States consented to in an additional filing, a federal judge in Mississippi on Aug. 19 ordered and adjudged State Farm to pay $100 million to the United States under the settlement agreement and dismissed with prejudice all claims and counterclaims in a 16-year-old qui tam suit accusing the insurer of filing false flood insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina....

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