Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Miss. Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Sep 14 2006 // Lincoln County, Miss., Sheriff Wiley Calcote resigned Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a single state charge of embezzlement. Calcote, who was in his first term, was indicted on 15 counts of embezzlement by a public official...
Miss. Weighs Tax Break for Modular Homes to Speed Rebuilding
Sep 11 2006 // A group of Mississippi lawmakers last week quizzed some makers of modular homes about the quality and construction of their products. But after hours of discussion, legislators left the Capitol without making...
Miss. Judge Rules Against Mass Action on Katrina Lawsuits
Sep 10 2006 // In a blow to hundreds of Mississippi homeowners whose insurance claims were denied after Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has ruled that policyholders suing their insurers must file their lawsuits individually instead of...
OSHA Levies $86K in Fines in Miss. Casino Construction Deaths
Sep 8 2006 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued proposed fines of $85,575 against three companies in the March deaths of two construction workers during the demolition of hurricane-damaged Grand Casino in...
Casinos Help Miss. Economy Recover from Hand Dealt by Katrina
Sep 8 2006 // Cynthia Smith remembers the horror her family endured when Hurricane Katrina’s flood waters rolled into their Gulfport, MIssissippi home and turned her world upside down. Smith and several family members —...
Miss. Supreme Court to Hear Lead Paint Liability Appeal
Sep 6 2006 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick. The suit was filed in 2000 in...
A year later, insurers report 95% of Katrina claims settled in La. and Miss.
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance industry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Hurricane Katrina, a year later, another perspective
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
News Currents
Sep 4 2006 // News Currents One year later: Gulf Coast agents & Katrina recovery How 3 Mississippi Gulf Coast agents, their families and communities are progressing Last October, Insurance Journal spent two days in Mississippi...
Editor’s Note: A long way to go
Sep 4 2006 // While significant problems persist-severe damage to public infrastructure and reduced populations continue to present challenges-the billions of dollars in claims paid to date are helping fuel an increase in residential...
News Currents
Sep 4 2006 // There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast....
Figures
Sep 4 2006 // 08/29/2006 The national day of remembrance for all the victims of Hurricane Katrina and those who gave of their time and energy to save lives and help rebuild. $57 billion The estimate of overall insured losses for damage...
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita spawn legislation, bulletins in Miss. and La.
Sep 4 2006 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed many misconceptions and misunderstandings that consumers had, or claimed to have had, with respect to their insurance coverage for hurricane related damage. The aftermath of these two...
First post-Katrina court decision a victory for insurers
Sep 4 2006 // On Aug. 15, 2006, a decision was handed down in the first post-Katrina insurance lawsuit to go to trial. Because there are thousands of lawsuits raising the same claims with millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake,...
Editor’s Note: Hurricane Katrina, a year later, another perspective
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...
Katrina By the Numbers: $10.5 Billion in Claims Paid in Miss.
Aug 31 2006 // There have been 483,693 claims filed and more than $10.5 billion paid to Mississippians for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to the Mississippi Insurance Department. Those numbers were as of August 1, 2006 and...
Miss. Appeals Court Throws Out $3M Award for Accident Stress
Aug 31 2006 // A $3 million damage award in a lawsuit over a “fender bender” has been thrown out by the state Court of Appeals. A Bolivar County jury in 2003 awarded Martha Ireland $3 million in damages based on...
In Miss., Dale Urges Mediation to Settle Remaining Katrina Claims
Aug 30 2006 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale has pledged that the Mississippi Insurance Department will continue to dedicate itself to getting as many Hurricane Katrina claims paid as possible. Citing a report from the...
