Latest Mississippi Headlines
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BP Oil Spill Costing Mississippi Coast $120 Million: Report
Jun 17 2010 // The Gulf of Mexico oil spill will cost Mississippi’s coastal counties nearly $120 million in lost tourism and service industry revenues this summer season, even though the state’s beaches have not been hit by...
Mississippi Supreme Court Hears Premises Shooting Liability Case
Jun 11 2010 // The owners of a Belzoni convenience store shouldn’t be liable after a man was shot and wounded in its parking lot, attorneys for the business told the Mississippi Supreme Court this week. Justices heard arguments in...
Mississippi, Florida AGs Putting Pressure on BP
Jun 11 2010 // Attorneys general in Florida and Mississippi are upping the political pressure on BP over the oil gusher that is threatening their states and the entire Gulf Coast. Florida Attorney General McCollum sent a letter to BP...
$4.6 Million in Aid Approved Since Mississippi Spring Storms
Jun 10 2010 // Federal and state agencies have approved more than $4.6 million in the past five weeks to help people recover from tornadoes, floods and severe storms this spring in Mississippi. Of that total, more than $3.5 million has...
Mississippi Attorneys’ Lawsuit Against Scruggs Dismissed
Jun 10 2010 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Gulf Coast attorneys who had accused former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and associated law firms of using money owed to them in a scheme to bribe...
Mississippi Home’s Concrete Structure Cuts Insurance Cost
Jun 7 2010 // The Dubuisson home will resemble others in the traditional Pass Christian neighborhood when construction is complete this summer yet underneath will be a superstructure built to withstand 200 mile-per-hour winds and cut...
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Mississippi, Alabama Islands
Jun 1 2010 // Oil from BP’s out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said Monday, as public anger surged over the country’s worst environmental...
State Farm to Seek Home Insurance Rate Hike in Mississippi
May 26 2010 // State Farm will file a rate increase with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney in the next few months. Company spokesman David Majors said that details are still being worked out. Last year, State Farm boosted...
Federal Aid for Mississippi Tornado Victims Tops $2.4 Million
May 21 2010 // Nearly one month after the April 23-24 tornadoes, federal disaster assistance provided to tornado survivors reached more than $2.4 million, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency...
Mississippi Home’s Concrete Structure Beats Winds, Cuts Insurance Cost
May 19 2010 // The Dubuisson home will resemble others in the traditional Pass Christian neighborhood when construction is complete this summer yet underneath will be a superstructure built to withstand 200 mile-per-hour winds and cut...
Mississippi Gets New Property Insurer: Coastal American
May 17 2010 // A newly-formed Mississippi company with backing from a Florida insurer and local private investors including six independent agencies will begin writing homeowners policies on the coast in Mississippi. Gulfport-based...
Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Damages Limit, Premises Liability
May 11 2010 // Attorneys for Ronnie Lymas go to the Mississippi Supreme Court on June 8 hoping to resurrect a $4.1 million jury verdict vehemently opposed by dozens of trade associations and Republican Gov. Haley Barbour. Critics say...
Mississippi City Seeks Split of Damages in Police Chase
May 11 2010 // For the fourth time in the last year, a Hinds County, Mississippi circuit judge has ruled against the city of Jackson in cases involving a police chase. The latest ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by a former Richland...
Mississippi Court Gets Insurer USAA Appeal of Katrina Damage Award
May 10 2010 // A dispute between an insurance company and a retired Navy admiral over coverage of damages from Hurricane Katrina has made its way to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The case is among dozens the Supreme Court will hear...
Family of Mississippi Oil Rig Worker Files Wrongful Death Suit
May 6 2010 // The family of Mississippi oil rig worker Aaron Dale Burkeen have filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the April 20 oil rig explosion in which he died. Houston, Texas-based attorney Kurt Arnold said in a statement the...
Gulf States’ Wildlife Reserve, Tourism, Fisheries at Risk from Oil Spill
Apr 30 2010 // A massive oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River Thursday as it threatens the environmentally delicate coastline of Louisiana and...
Gulf of Mexico Leak Grows, Oil Slick Near Shore
Apr 29 2010 // The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday five times as much oil as previously estimated was leaking from a well beneath the site of a deadly drilling rig explosion as the slick threatened wide-scale coastal damage for four U.S....
Mississippi Could Be Hit with More Severe Weather This Weekend
Apr 29 2010 // Storm-weary Mississippi residents are facing another possible round of severe weather this weekend, only days after tornadoes plowed through the state and left a wide swath of destruction. National Weather Service...
New Mississippi Insurer to Compete for Coastal Home Insurance Business
Apr 29 2010 // A newly-formed Mississippi company with backing from a Florida insurer and local private investors including six independent agencies will begin writing homeowners policies on the coast in Mississippi. Gulfport-based...
Insurance Claims Pour In from Mississippi Storm
Apr 28 2010 // Mississippi’s top insurance official said the devastation caused by last Saturday’s storm would be “significant” after viewing the destruction on the ground and by helicopter. “It’s...
