Allstate Insurance Company a Louisiana man must pay, who lost his home to Hurricane Katrina more than $2.8 million in damages and sanctions, a federal jury Monday in a case largely on it was decided wind hinged or storm surge, which wiped out his house.

The jury found Allstate - it claims that most damage due to storm surge, an event in its policy was not - handled no paid Robert white enough money, to cover wind damage to home. The judgment included a 1.5 million dollar fine for the company for non-payment the claim quickly enough.

Allstate lawyer Judy Barrasso arguments, said that Katrina winds not strong enough to damage to close.

The lawyer for the white, whose Heimat was on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Slidell in the area said the jury in arguments, that the House was close too high above the sea level, by Katrina's storm surge were destroyed. 29 Passed the eye of Katrina East of Slidell in the morning of August, 2005. Also, he claimed that the House 17 meters above sea level and engineering data suggested that only 14 metres area hit by surge. He said "It never the floor of the House reached".

White, an Allstate homeowners had policy with limits of $343,000 for the apartment and $240,100 for personal property.

The company, the majority of the damage on Katrina's storm surge, the debt paid $29,483 for structural damage and $14,787 for additional cost of living.

Allstate's Barrasso said sustained winds in the House not over 100 mph. "There were some signs, the winds were not strong enough to overthrow this House and the storm surge was," she said.

Robert Weiss, who is listed as the policy-holder, said Jim Neva, a surveyor and engineer who inspected the House for Allstate, first of all that wind may have destroyed the House, before the surge of water washed away the remnants of produced.

He later backed up from this conclusion, and moved to engineering consultant Craig Rogers Rimkus consulting group. Rogers, who wrote the final report of the home for Allstate, Neva, convinced that this storm surge destroyed the House.

Rogers said that he personally the property to not check after he wrote the report. He said, he partly a practice based his conclusions on evidence gathered by other engineers of Rimkus - he described as usual. But Trahant movement questioned.

"Why choose Allstate, to which an engineer leave, never a on the land long to toe, after he stamped his report?" Trahant said arguments to close.

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