A federal appeals court upheld the language in State Farm’s  Insurance Company’s homeowners policy that has been used to deny hundreds of claims made by policy holders whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

The bad faith insurance case against State Farm Insurance was filed by John and Claire Tuepker whose Long Beach, Mississippi home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.

The appeals court judges ruled that State Farm’s homeowners policy is not written in ambiguous language. The insurance company argued that its policies cover damage from a hurricane’s winds but not from rising water. The insurance company also claimed that damage from both wind and flood waters can be excluded from coverage by “anti-concurrent cause” language in its policies.

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