Brown, FEMA Acting Director David Maurstad, Computer Sciences Corporation President Paul Cofoni, seventeen insurance companies, their vendors and adjusting firms and others was filed Wednesday in United States District Court, Greenbelt, Maryland, alleging that the group conspired to defraud thousands of catastrophe victims who had purchased flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). As a result, many family units were destroyed left to live in campers without indoor plumbing when temperatures dropped below freezing, with no place for children to study or play.

Recent Congressional testimony revealed that CSC was training sales agents to tell policyholders they would be restored to their pre-flood condition, while simultaneously training flood loss adjusters to allow for only narrowly defined coverage in limited amounts. CSC transacts billions of dollars of business with its insurance company clients. Government and insurance industry whistleblowers leaked the rational for the low-balling. The insurance industry was concerned that if they fairly paid the flood claims it would set a precedent for their non-flood claims.

In fact, they told me so point blank.”Wednesday’s lawsuit alleges wrongful conduct, including:- Officials of FEMA, CSC, Seventeen Insurance carriers and their vendors acted in concert to defraud thousands of flood loss victims.- FEMA Acting Director Maurstad, a licensed representative of some of the same carriers that he regulates, has attempted to mischaracterize the NFIP as “a form of assistance” rather than the wholly premium funded insurance program that it is.

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