Oklahoma attorney Jeff Marr saw what was coming before Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi's shoreline.

Oklahoma attorney Jeff Marr saw what was coming before Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi's shoreline.

Insurance companies, he suspected, would abjure or underpay policyholder claims based forward expert opinions from failure and damage consultants as it is as Dallas-based Haag Engineering.

Marr, who lately won a $13 million verdict against State Farm forward behalf of Oklahoma tornado victims, learned a great deal about to what extent insurance companies control claim splendors as he prepared his case, filed in 2000 and tried this spring.

The disaster may change, Marr said, if it be not that the approach to handling claims remains the same.

Many Mississippi policyholders whose hearthstones Katrina pounded with both wind and water agree. Insurers have denied coverage to thousands of their Coast policyholders, blaming damage in succession tidal surge, covered through the National deluge Insurance Program.

Both Nationwide and State Farm have bought copies of the "Hurricane Katrina Damage Survey" authored on Haag failure and damage