Friday, December 5, 2014

Levee Breach Class Action Settlement for alleged failures in Rita & Hurricane

Get refund for house and personal damage due to hurricane Katrina and Rita by enrolling into the Levee Breach Class Action Settlement at LeveeBreachClass.com.

Natural calamities come without any warning messages and it ruins our life by damaging our property and sometimes ourselves also. It becomes very important for government to keep checking various levees on several interval of time to reduce casualties. If you have come across the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita which has damaged your private and business properties due to fatal management of levees, then you are eligible to take part into the settlement to claim your refund.

Levee Breach Class Action Settlement

On August 20, 2005 Hurricane Katrina and on September 24 2005 Hurricane Rita made landfall. As per the claims of class members, levee and other water and flood control structures are failed in affected area during hurricanes. Reason of failing of these flood controlling structures is poor design, lack of routine inspection and maintenance. Class members have claimed that they have suffered property damage, personal injury and other losses due to mismanagement.

To settle down the class action the Orleans Levee District, the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, the Board of Commissioners of the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, the East Jefferson Levee District, the Board of Commissioners of the East Jefferson Levee District and their insurance company St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company have agreed.

All people who are listed below will be considered as an eligible class members to get refund:
  • Person who at the time of Hurricane Katrina and/or Hurricane Rita were located, present or residing in the Hurricane Affected Geographic Area, or owned, leased, possessed, used or otherwise had any interest in homes, places of business or other immovable or movable property on or in the Hurricane Affected Geographic Area.
  • Person who incurred any losses, damages and/or injuries arising from, in any manner related to, or connected in any way with Hurricane Katrina and/or Hurricane Rita and any alleged levee failures that originated from, over, under or through the levees under the authority and/or control of all or any of the levee district defendants.
Subclasses of settlement:
  • Subclass 1 (Lake Borgne Basin Levee District): the entirety of St. Bernard Parish
  • Subclass 2 (East Jefferson Levee District): the entirety of Jefferson Parish plus a portion of Orleans parish
  • Subclass 3 (Orleans Levee District): the entirety of Orleans Parish plus portions of Jefferson Parish and St Bernard Parish
Refund for each class member will vary which is based on following entities:

Individual Claims:

Property Damage (Residential)
Contents Damage (Residential)
Other Individual Claims:
Resident Claims
Non-Resident Claims
Visitor Claims
Death Claims
Survival Claims
Wrongful Death Claims

Commercial/Business Claims:
Property Damage (Commercial)
Contents (Commercial)
Loss of Business Income

Last date to claim your refund is April 30, 2015. For other information and court documents, visit official site www.leveebreachclass.com.

Highlights of Levee breach class action settlement:

Class action official site: leveebreachclass.com

Claims Administrator:
Levee Breach Claim Center
P.O. Box 64181
St. Paul, MN 55164-0181

Last date to claim refund: April 30, 2015

Class Counsel:
BECNEL LAW FIRM LLC
BRUNO & BRUNO
DUMAS & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM LLC
FAYARD & HONEYCUTT
JACOBS SARRAT LOVELACE & HARRIS
LAMBERT & NELSON
GAINSBURGH BENJAMIN DAVID MEUNIER & WARSHAUER LLC
ANDRY LAW FIRM
LEVIN PAPANTONIO THOMAS MITCHELL ECHSNER & PROCTOR PA
DOMENGEAUX WRIGHT ROY & EDWARDS LLC

Defense Counsel:
PHELPS DUNBAR LLP

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