Lawyers in State Farm Suits Barred for Payments to Witnesses

Last June, long before L’Affaire Scruggs was even a glimmer in the public’s eye, the Law Blog noted that a judge recommended that the feds prosecute Scruggs for violating a court order related to the handling of documents in Hurricane Katrina insurance cases. The judge was angry because Scruggs had shared with the Mississippi AG documents he received from two former employees of E.A. Renfroe, an insurance services company hired by State Farm to evaluate Katrina claims. Now the other plaintiff