161 Suits A Day
That’s the number of lawsuits filed in St. Tammany Parish since Hurricane Katrina, according to the St. Tammany News. That comes to 632/month or 7,584 per year, up 500% since before the Great Windless Hurricane of 2005.
The parish on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain has a population of 230,000 in 69,000 households, according to the Census Bureau. So, 11% of households is suing someone this year. I wonder whom?
Of those lawsuits, the majority are homeowners who are suing insurance companies claiming they have not been compensated for wind damage sustained during Katrina, state district court Judge Raymond Childress said.
Or as the court clerk says:
Our whole world is more complicated,” Prieto said.
I’ll bet.
No matter where you stand in the insurance debate, are we to believe this is a picture of a system that is working?