About a year after Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast, applying its full force to Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island, a steady flow of insurance cases began pouring into the Eastern District.

But only 73 of 1,400 cases remained as of May 23 in which homeowners argued insurers had wrongly underpaid or denied their claims after the 2012 superstorm. Nine have settled and are awaiting the submission of stipulations.