ARMY OF ADJUSTERS It now has about 5,000 independent adjusters under contract via 44 adjusting firms. These adjusters are required to make Citizens' work their first priority, and their work will be closely monitored by 68 supervisors inside Citizens. All the adjusters have to go through a training session covering the company's adjusting practices and Florida's building codes. Last month, the company ran a hurricane drill, mobilizing adjusters and staffers to see how its procedures would work. (source:miamiherald.com)

	Former insurance adjusters Cori and Kerri Rigsby are on the hook for $65,000 that attorney Dickie Scruggs refuses to fork over to their former employers, Alabama-based E.A. Renfroe.
	Scruggs has placed the money with the federal court while he appeals Judge William M. Acker Jr.'s decision to fine him and the Rigsbys that amount for civil contempt in Renfroe v. Rigsby. Meanwhile, Acker has ruled, the Rigsbys must pay the fine within 14 days. (Source: SunHerald.com)

The aftermath of several storms across the metro is taking a toll on homeowner's patience. Insurance companies are backed up and adjusters have even been called in from other states to help with damaged homes.

State Farm attorneys plan to grill lawyer Dickie Scruggs before he heads to prison. 

"In Baton Rouge this week, the Louisiana House overwhelmingly passed and sent on to Senate a bill which would for the first time allow insurance companies to set different deductible rates for property insurances policies issued in different parts of the state, as the state continues to struggle with establishing a stable insurance after the devastating storms and flood of 2005. Over the objections of lawmakers from South Louisiana, the House rejected an amendment which would have required companies writing policies in the northern part of the state to write policies in the southern and more vulnerable part also