AG's Katrina-based class action against insurance companies dismissed

WWL-TV reports:

A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit that Louisiana's former attorney general filed against some of the nation's largest insurance companies after Hurricane Katrina.

The case was State of Louisiana et al v. Allstate Insurance Company et al., No. 07-9409 (docket). It was originally filed last November in state court (local news here, here; national news here, here). It was then removed to federal court, and stayed there (see here, here).

The reasons for dismissal were apparently assigned orally -- law.com reports that Judge Zainey "said he agreed with insurers that the suit failed to present evidence of a conspiracy among competing companies" and the only docket entries are a one-page minute entry and a one-page judgment. Posted by MBC at December 18, 2008 10:37 PM