Panel Affirms Extinguishment Of Firm’s Lien For Fees In False Claims Act Suit

Mealey's (July 2, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 29 affirmed a lower federal court’s extinguishment of a law firm’s lien for its fees and expenses in a 12-year-old qui tam suit in which relators accused State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. of filing false flood insurance after Hurricane Katrina (United States of America, ex rel, Cori Rigsby, et al. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company, et al. v. Gilbert, L.L.P., No. 17-60720, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 17958)....