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Miss. Trial Could Help Decide Claims from Hurricane Katrina
Jul 12 2006 // Hurricane Katrina left thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners battling their insurance companies. A Mississippi police officer and his wife are the first to take their fight to court. A federal judge on Monday began hearing a...
Attorneys Arrive in Miss. for Opening of First Katrina Insurance Lawsuit
Jul 11 2006 // Attorneys carried files and exhibits into a Mississippi federal courthouse Monday for what they expect to be a groundbreaking trial on whether insurance policyholders who lost homes in Hurricane Katrina are entitled to...
Lawmakers Want Miss. Casino Funds to Help Cover Insurance Rise
Jul 6 2006 // Two Mississippi lawmakers are proposing a stream of money, generated by taking a portion of the growth in the state’s gambling revenue, to hold down homeowner insurance rates on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Two legal cases in the eye of Hurricane Katrina
Jul 3 2006 // Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi...
Miss. Announces Another Chance for Housing Grants
Jun 29 2006 // Mississippi has increased by 35 percent insurance values used in calculating homeowner grant amounts to compensate for higher post-Katrina construction costs. Scott Hamilton, spokesman for the Mississippi Development...
Insurance Claims Paid in Mississippi Now Over $10 Billion
Jun 16 2006 // As of June 6 insurance companies have paid out more than $10 billion in hurricane-related claims for hurricanes Rita and Katrina in Mississippi, according to Commissioner of Insurance George Dale. The National Flood...
Symington Tells Miss. Big ‘I’: Federal Charter a ‘Recipe for Disaster’
Jun 15 2006 // If a mandatory or even an optional federal charter is implemented in Washington, D.C., it will be a “recipe for disaster,” a top insurance agent lobbyist has warned. Charles E. Symington, Jr., told more than...
Miss. Using Federal Dollars to Help With Wind Pool Costs
Jun 15 2006 // Mississippi will use $50 million in federal grant money to ease the sticker shock of an anticipated rate increase for wind-pool coverage of homes in the hurricane zone, officials said Wednesday. Gov. Haley Barbour and...
Dale: Miss. Wind Pool Decision Coming in Two to Three Weeks
Jun 7 2006 // Mississippi State Insurance Commissioner George Dale says he will make a decision in the next two to three weeks on a proposed 397.8 percent rate increase for thousands of coastal residents covered by the Mississippi...
Coverage issues at core of Hurricane Katrina-related litigation
Jun 5 2006 // The amount of property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi and Louisiana has been extensively reported, as has the fact that many people in those states did not have flood insurance coverage. As a result,...
Coverage issues at core of Hurricane Katrina-related litigation
Jun 5 2006 // The initial decisions from Hurricane Katrina lawsuits provide some comfort to both insurers and insureds and potential warnings to insurance agents. The amount of property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi...
No 397.8 Percent Wind-Pool Increase in Miss.; But No Final Decision
Jun 2 2006 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says there is no way he will approve a 397.8 percent increase in wind pool insurance for coastal residents. “We will do everything we can to find avenues to offset that...
Miss. Reports on Successful Mediation Sessions
Jun 1 2006 // As of May 15, the Mississippi Insurance Department reports there have been 2,222 mediation requests as part of its Hurricane Katrina Mediation Program, with the success rate now at 85 percent. More than 350 scheduled...
Miss. Claims Payments Break Records
May 31 2006 // A record for property and casualty lines claims payment settlements and premium refunds was set by the Consumer Services Division in Mississippi from Jan. 1 to April 30, according to the Insurance Department. Since Jan. 1...
