After nine months of drawn-out proceedings in the high-profile Hursh lawsuit, the bad faith State Farm roof claim case that has come to represent 1,000 similar cases across Oklahoma, the company now faces CEO testimony and potential document releases that raise the stakes for a trial scheduled Dec. 7.
Along the way, the Hursh case has featured protracted haggling over racketeering allegations from the Attorney General’s Office, multiple diversions to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and repeated delays of the sort that insurance industry expert Jay Feinman has characterized as part and parcel of broader efforts to reduce claim payouts.
“Stonewalling in litigation (…) is the logical complement to stonewalling in the denial of claims,” Feinman wrote in…read more