United States Ex Rel. Rigsby v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

CARL E. STEWART, Chief Judge:

In April 2006, Plaintiffs Cori and Kerri Rigsby (hereinafter, “the Rigsbys” or “re-lators”) brought this qui tam action under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (“FCA”), claiming that State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (“State Farm”) submitted false claims to the United States government for payment on flood policies arising out of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. 1 At trial, the Rigs-bys prevailed on a single bellwether false claim under the FCA. The district court subsequently denied their request to conduct further discovery, and denied State…