Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Miss. Motorist Sentenced for Fraudulently Filing Duplicate Claims
Oct 25 2012 // Authorities in Mississippi announced this week that a local motorist will spend 12 months in jail for committing insurance fraud. Motorist Johnnetta White was sentenced to three years in the custody of the Mississippi...
Federal Agency Joins Mississippi Hotel Fire Probe
Oct 23 2012 // Federal investigators have joined the investigation into last Wednesday’s fire at a Howard Johnson Inn on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The fire burned through the roof of the three-story hotel, doing an estimated $4...
Midwest Farmers Planted Most of Land Flooded in 2011
Oct 22 2012 // Farmers this spring were able to plant all but a few thousand acres of the land deluged by last year’s flooding along on the Missouri River and the intentional breaching of a Mississippi River levee in southeast...
Federal Court Seeks New Briefs in Challenge to Mississippi Damages Cap
Oct 22 2012 // A federal appeals court has asked parties involved in a personal injury lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages to re-brief the issue. The 5th Circuit...
Mississippi High Court to Hear Texaco Appeal Over Gas Tank Fumes
Oct 19 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 3 in Texaco’s appeal of a $19 million verdict for five women who alleged the oil company was responsible for their children born with...
Federal Court Seeks Rebriefing on Mississippi Damages Cap
Oct 15 2012 // A federal appeals court has asked parties involved in a personal injury lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages to re-brief the issue. The 5th Circuit...
Gulf States Pressure Obama Over BP Spill Settlement Funds
Oct 8 2012 // Senators from the U.S. Gulf Coast urged President Barack Obama on Friday to ensure that any legal settlement for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill does not undermine a recently passed law that would funnel billions of...
Mississippi Case Challenges Death Certificate As Evidence in Accident
Oct 8 2012 // Prosecutors have asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of Jeffrey Dale Beecham, who won a new trial because the state failed to offer testimony to authenticate a death certificate in a fatal DUI...
Ratings Recap: Nacional Re, Barents Re, PMG, MS Frontier Re
Oct 4 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-” to Spain’s Nacional de Reaseguros, S.A., both with...
Mississippi Ending 11-Year Old Insurance Fraud Case Involving Frankel
Oct 1 2012 // Mississippi officials are dropping the remnants of an 11-year-old lawsuit after collecting as much money as they think they can get in reparations for insurance fraud by a convicted financier who claimed Vatican...
Mississippi Offers Smartphone App for Driver’s Test
Sep 28 2012 // The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has partnered with Mississippi Interactive LLC to offer a driver’s practice test application for residents with the proper phones or other hand-held computing devices. The...
Workers’ Comp Changes Go Into Effect in Mississippi
Sep 24 2012 // Insurers and employers in Mississippi now have greater latitude to conduct alcohol and drug tests on employees following a workplace accident and to reduce benefits for workers with pre-existing conditions. Under new...
Mississippi Insurance Losses from Isaac Under $25 Million
Sep 21 2012 // Private insurers expect to pay more than $24.3 million in claims in Mississippi as a result of Hurricane Isaac, Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said. Chaney said that as of Sept. 19, Mississippi’s 21 largest...
Lawsuit Over NFL Concussions Filed in Mississippi
Sep 21 2012 // A federal lawsuit filed in Mississippi on behalf of more than 50 former NFL players claims the league conspired to hide the dangers of concussions and brain trauma associated with professional football. The lawsuit was...
Mississippi Court Hears Challenge to Death Certificate As Evidence in Accident
Sep 20 2012 // Prosecutors have asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of Jeffrey Dale Beecham, who won a new trial because the state failed to offer testimony to authenticate a death certificate in a fatal DUI...
Mississippi Challenge to Health Insurance Mandate Dismissed
Sep 18 2012 // Gov. Phil Bryant and other Mississippi residents were premature in their challenge to the federal law requiring people to buy health care insurance, a federal judge has ruled. District Judge Keith Starrett also knocked the...
Mississippi Trial Set for Kmart Complaint Against FEMA Flood Mapping
Sep 17 2012 // A federal judge has set a trial date in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth. The Daily Corinthian reported that the trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Glen H. Davidson. In...
Mississippi Workers’ Comp Drug Testing, Benefits Changes Go Into Effect
Sep 17 2012 // Insurers and employers in Mississippi now have greater latitude to conduct alcohol and drug tests on employees following a workplace accident and reduce benefits for workers with pre-existing conditions. Those changes are...
Mississippi Court to Hear Case on Pre-Need Funeral Policy Transfers
Sep 14 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court was to hear arguments this week in a lawsuit filed over the portability of pre-need funeral policies. At issue is whether under Mississippi law such a policy, contracted with one funeral home,...
Mississippi Court Rules Wal-Mart Not Liable in Gun Ammo Sale to Underage Shooter
Sep 10 2012 // If a store sells ammunition to an underage person who uses the bullets to kill someone, is the retailer responsible? Not necessarily, according to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court ruled 5-4 this week in favor of...
