Our question here is, and we’re quite serious, when does 60 Minutes get involved in this story? It’ll probably never be on the cover of a Time, or Newsweek. Eventually the Gray Lady herself might even write a feature of all of this. Not just Hood and State Farm, but Scruggs, Langston, and others. Maybe they’re waiting for the unraveling to be complete.

A lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that accuses Attorney General Jim Hood of using the threat of criminal charges to force settlements in civil lawsuits is based on “lies, speculation, and innuendo,” Hood said in court papers.

State Farm sued Hood in September, claiming he violated his part of a January 2007 settlement in which the attorney general’s office agreed to end its criminal investigation over the company’s handling of Hurricane Katrina claims. A judge ordered Hood to temporarily shut down the probe.

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