New Orleans Insurance

A decision by another judge Mexico this week, a crucial piece of evidence for some lawyers from New Orleans is still fighting with Allstate Insurance Co. case, Hurricane Katrina.

Monday, Judge Barbara County Vigil ordered Allstate produce a series of slides by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Santa Fe lawyer David Berardinelli outline of a plan said that the company has been able to increase profitability in its auto insurance claims by insured severely.

Berardinelli said he believes that the documents represent a representative claims-Brech philosophy is reflected in the case of Katrina, and that the programme outlined by the McKinsey documents “in 1990, was finally extended to the less lucrative line of insurance homeowners. The documents must be sealed products, but they are used freely in each case, where Berardinelli has signed previously as a legal adviser, inter alia, by a group of lawyers from New Orleans area to work Allstate Katrina cases.

Thus, many people of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane, but by post-hurricane towers and the disappointment of these companies, “said Berardinelli. Companies can establish their retarding the recovery of the region Gulf by decades. ”

Rich Halberg Allstate spokesman, said one of the documents came from people disaster, Martinez et al v. Allstate Insurance Co., arguing they had no importance for hurricane claims. “The case he is referring to a car injury cases and has nothing to do, property claims. Any attempt to backflip in a real estate situation is irrelevant,” said Halberg.

McKinsey no comment on the work for customers.

Clear mini-Paul, one of a half-dozen local lawyers, Berardinelli praised to work with them in over 40 cases to prove that Allstate has a corporate strategy to deny claims, said that access to movies McKinsey, except that they are several steps the continuation of their cases. He anticipated that once the documents are in some cases, they will quickly in all cases, Allstate, where they accelerate settlements or add fire-power in the courtroom.

“I believe that this development allows us, for the major obstacles that slow the process to show that philosophy was McKinsey Allstate to tangible assets of cases and disaster. This is the first step for us now go to the documents on request you after the presentation of films, which show how they become familiar with the claims of Katrina and Rita, “said the mini-Clear. “It is once again hit all cases, Allstate is underway.”

In July, New Orleans Denenea lawyer Johnny, another lawyer working with Berardinelli, tent the introduction of the McKinsey documents in one of its events, U.S. District Court in New Orleans. But the judges, they were not relevant Denenea trying to prove, by deposits with Allstate they are.

Denenea was part of the legal team in white v. Allstate, the first attempt to “Katrina” to adapt to a jury in federal court. In this case, the doctor Slidell Robert Weiss won $ 3.8 million bad faith Allstate judgement against the loss of his Treasure Island home and later to a confidential agreement with the Northbrook, Ill., company.

Berardinelli, “said McKinsey slides showing how the cheating Allstate Insurance to reward shareholders, and that the plan began with the installation of automatic claims and, finally, on other sectors of the business is the main reason why Allstate has also profitable in recent years.

Allstate said that Berardinelli has a career passing, for the attack on society, and it is fair and reasonable offers on loans, and tries to settle claims as quickly as possible.

Last year, Berardinelli has published a book entitled “Good hands Gloves boxing,” which receives its title from a piece of advice McKinsey, boxing gloves Don Allstate for all clients not to accept provide solution for penny on the dollar. It is precisely now that the book is the specialty particular legal order of $ 295, but Berardinelli has a project for a consumer version of the book.