Southeast News for May 2010 Florida Officials Worry About Complacency Over Hurricanes U.S. Mines Facing Shortage of Safety Air Packs Deal Reached in Florida Wrongful Death Suit Against Ballplayer Leyritz Florida Case Could Hold Private Firms, Insurers Liable for Foster Kids’ Injuries State Farm to Seek Home Insurance Rate Hike in Mississippi South Carolina Boating Deaths On Rise MGAs Called Critical to Florida’s Property Insurance Market Judge Nixes Union Lawsuit Over Massey Mine Probe Interviews CEO Defends Massey Over West Virginia Mine Safety The Hartford Hit With $14.5 Million Over South Carolina Printer’s Claim Astonish Results Opens Florida Office Safety Grate Rule May Close North Carolina Pools North Carolina Woman Charged with Embezzling Insurance Premiums Atlanta CPCU Elects Stevens as President, Installs Other Leaders Federal Aid for Mississippi Tornado Victims Tops $2.4 Million Tennessee Teens Offered Rewards for Seat Belt Use Tennessee Governor Again Vetoes Bill Allowing Guns in Bars Bid to Create North Carolina Rate Commission Fails Tennessee Insurance Agents Warned on Flood Insurance E&O Exposure Florida Hurricane Fund Has $17 Billion in Cash for Claims Mississippi Home’s Concrete Structure Beats Winds, Cuts Insurance Cost Vatican Argues It’s Not Liable for Kentucky Priests’ Sex Abuse 16 Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers to Return $9.4 Million South Carolina Had Small Earthquake Florida Leaders See Omnibus Bill Stabilizing Home Insurance Market Mississippi Governor Vetoes $20 Million for Wind Insurance Pool Lawsuits Against Coal Firms Claim Mining Worsened Kentucky Floods Ironshore Enters Florida High-Valued Homeowners Market Survivors Can’t Forget Fierce Hurricane That Hit Florida in 1935 Florida Insurers Head Into Hurricane Season with Fingers Crossed Gulf Oil Spill May Reach North Carolina Islands, Miami Beach Florida Consumer Advocate Dartland to Crist: Sign Property Insurance Bill Florida Man Charged with Arson of His Yacht Named Shameless North Carolina Insurers Running Ads Opposing Change to Negligence Standard South Carolina Firefighters Urge Lawmakers to Keep Sprinkler Code Florida Eliminates Time Limit on Sex Abuse Claims Crump Adds to Atlanta Team: Sherwin, Duran, Yoss, Feldhaus Grimaldi Joins American E&S in Atlanta Florida Creates Legal Team on Oil Spill Recovery Florida Hurricane Funds Seeks $693 Million for Reopened 2005 Claims McCarty Denies Bill Means Automatic Rate Hikes; Urges Crist to Sign It Florida Workers Compensation Rates to Drop Again West Virginia Creates Workplace Safety Hotline Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Damages Limit, Premises Liability Mississippi City Seeks Split of Damages in Police Chase North Carolina Wind Pool Gets Extra Protection with $305M Cat Bond Florida Woman Awarded $36 Million Over Steroid Injection Malpractice Inspections Uncover Serious Safety Violations; 6 Kentucky Mines Closed Mississippi Court Gets Insurer USAA Appeal of Katrina Damage Award Early Partial Estimate of Nashville Flood Damage: $1.5 Billion North Carolina Rate Bureau Proposes Credits for Storm-Proofing Homes West Virginia Mulls Second Mine Inspection Agency West Virginia Firefighters Angered by Workers’ Comp Increase Family of Mississippi Oil Rig Worker Files Wrongful Death Suit Football Team Finds Minor Flood Damage at Tennessee Stadium Disney Wins Lawsuit Alleging Ride Caused Stroke Smile, Speeders: South Carolina Town Using I-95 Speed Cameras Main Street America Expands Product Lines To Grain Dealers Mutual Agents North Carolina Begins $50 Million in Auto Insurance Refunds This Week Southeast Flooding Kills 22, Closes Businesses and Schools Dog Attack Proves Costly for Tennessee Child’s Family Nashville’s Opryland Among Business Closed by Tennesee Floods Mississippi Seafood Company Files Lawsuit Over Oil Spill Keystone Insurers Adds 2 More Kentucky Agencies to Network Florida Passes Deregulation of Certain Commercial Lines Insurance Florida Lawmakers Pass Omnibus Property Insurance Bill Florida ‘s Magnolia Insurance to Be Liquidated Southeast News Archives