Flood Insurer Responds To Louisiana Insureds’ Suit Over Supplemental Flood Claim

Mealey's (April 11, 2018, 10:02 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal flood insurer on March 28 responded to Louisiana insureds’ federal court lawsuit alleging that it breached the insurance policy by failing to pay their supplemental claim for flood damage, asserting that all extracontractual and tort claims arising out of the handling of the flood loss claim under the policy are preempted by federal law (Randell Whittington, et al. v. Wright National Flood Insurance Company, No. 18-00213, M.D. La.)....