OIL COMPANIES CAUSED KATRINA

摘要

In Comer v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., No. 1:05 CV 436 LTD RHW, 2006 WL 1066645 (S.D. Miss. Feb. 23, 2006), 14 individuals who suffered damage from Hurricane Katrina filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi seeking to certify four separate classes under Rule 23, Fed. R. Civ. P. The classes requested were: "Insurance Defendant," "Mortgage Lending Defendant," "Chemical Manufacturer Defendant," and "Oil Company Defendant." Each class included named defendants and three had 100 unidentified defendants. The claims against the insurance defendants had to do with policy coverage or lack thereof, while the complaint against the mortgage lending defendants was that they breached a duty to keep the mortgaged property "properly and sufficiently" insured. The court dismissed the complaint against the insurance and mortgage lending defendants and refused to allow the plaintiffs to file a second amended complaint in a further effort to qualify those classes.