Limited Waiver Of FEMA’s Sovereign Immunity Does Not Apply, Federal Judge Rules

(January 15, 2020, 9:47 AM EST) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana on Jan. 10 granted the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s motion to dismiss an insured’s breach of contract lawsuit arising from flood damage, rejecting the insured’s contention that the limited waiver of FEMA's sovereign immunity applied (Matthew Poirrier v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, et al., No. 18-00434, M.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4586)....

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