United States ex rel. Sonnier v. Standard Fire Insurance

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

This is the latest in a series of qui tam actions alleging that insurers and adjusters committed fraud in responding to hurricane damage claims. The relator, Ker-mith Sonnier, alleges that the defendants prepared and submitted inflated claims on flood-insurance policies backed by the Federal Insurance Administration’s (“FIA”) National Flood Insurance Program (“NFIP”), while reducing claims paid on privately backed wind-insurance policies, in violation of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-32. The United States declined to…