Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Hits Snag in House
Apr 4 2012 // A bill that would revise Mississippi’s workers’ compensation system survived attempts to kill it this week, but ended up further away from passage. After earlier rejecting proposed changes to the system of...
Mississippi House Sends Workers’ Comp Bill to Senate
Apr 2 2012 // Mississippi House members now favor changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system after previously voting against them. House members voted 60-56 last Thursday to pass Senate Bill 2576, which proponents...
Mississippi High Court Won’t Rehear Wind vs. Water Damage Case
Mar 26 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied motions to reconsider its ruling last December that overturned a judgment for an insurance company in a wind vs. water case. The case involved a Pascagoula home hit by 6.3 feet of...
Mississippi Lawmakers End Hunting/Fishing Exemption from Flood Regulation
Mar 26 2012 // The Mississippi Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill to allow local governments to enforce federal floodplains codes at hunting and fishing camps and remain in the National Flood Insurance Program. The...
Mississippi Supreme Court Denies Appeal In Road Sign Case
Mar 20 2012 // An appeal from Don F. McElroy, who claims he is owed compensation from Simpson County for injuries he suffered in a 2004 accident, won’t be heard by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The Supreme Court, in a 7-1 decision...
Mississippi Workers’ Comp Chief Aims to Balance Costs, Fair Treatment
Mar 19 2012 // As chairman of the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission, Liles B. Williams oversees the work of an agency that receives reports of more than 11,000 work-related injuries per year. Williams sees his role as...
Mississippi Trial Date Set in Decade-Old Frankel Case
Mar 19 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Mississippi House, Senate Divided Over Workers’ Compensation Changes
Mar 16 2012 // The Mississippi Legislature is split on a bill that would make changes to the state’s workers’ compensation law. Opponents say it would tilt the scales against workers, but proponents say it would return...
Mississippi Counties Improve Fire Insurance Ratings
Mar 14 2012 // Mississippi’s Monticello and Lawrence County have achieved new fire insurance ratings. Officials told the Daily Leader that the city has new rating of six and the county has an eight. The ratings came from the...
Judge Denies Claim Mississippi DUI Law Is Unconstitutional
Mar 9 2012 // Harrison County Circuit Judge Larry Bourgeois has declined to throw out the indictment in a DUI death case and dismissed a defense attorney’s claim that the Mississippi law is unconstitutional. The ruling was sought...
Mississippi Trial to Begin in Frankel, Vatican Fraud Case
Mar 5 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Mississippi House Revisits Vetoed Auto Insurance Verification Bill
Mar 1 2012 // A proposal to set up online computer checks to make sure drivers have auto insurance is again moving forward in the Mississippi House. A similar measure was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Haley Barbour. According to 2009...
Mississippi County’s Funds for Flood Property Buybacks Remain Unspent
Feb 29 2012 // The state of Mississippi has asked Hancock County for $6 million in funds not spent on a “property acquisition” project. The project is a limited buy-out plan designated to reduce the repetitive losses of...
Trial Date Set for Insurance Fraud with Ties to Frankel, Vatican
Feb 27 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Mississippi Moves to Enforce Flood Codes on Hunting-Fishing Camps
Feb 24 2012 // The Mississippi House has approved a bill to allow local governments to enforce federal floodplains codes at hunting and fishing camps and remain in the National Flood Insurance Program. The bill (House Bill 773) would...
Mississippi Bar Owners Say Security Guard Proposal Goes Too Far
Feb 22 2012 // Hattiesburg nightclub and bar owners say many smaller nightspots would be put out of business by a proposal to require on-site parking lots and at least three guards at every bar. The City Council has scheduled a public...
Trucker’s Widow Settles Mississippi Wrongful Death Claim with Insurer
Feb 22 2012 // A trucker’s widow has settled her 2011 wrongful death lawsuit with H&M International Transportation Inc.’s insurance company and a driver. Filed Feb. 8, the agreement with Rita Marie Bruce shows Brookwood...
U.S. Should Expect Another Above-Normal Tornado Season in 2012
Feb 21 2012 // The U.S. should expect an active severe weather season with above-normal tornadoes in 2012. That’s after a near-record number of tornadoes in 2011, according to forecasters at AccuWeather.com in State College,...
Mississippi Wind Pool Shops in London
Feb 20 2012 // Members of Mississippi’s wind pool board were in London last month to seek low reinsurance rates. The Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association is the insurer of last resort for coastal property owners. It...
Lawyers Appeal Mississippi Asbestos Fraud Verdict
Feb 14 2012 // Two Mississippi plaintiffs lawyers, including a former state lawmaker, have appealed a verdict that they committed fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. A federal jury in Mississippi decided in 2010 that the...
