Latest Mississippi Headlines
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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...
Tornadoes in Mississippi Take 10 Lives; 700 Homes, Many Uninsured, Destroyed
Apr 27 2010 // Tornadoes that killed 10 people in Mississippi destroyed at least 700 homes and did tens of millions of dollars in damage, state authorities said Monday. Homeowners and local authorities began a clean-up operation in some...
Tornadoes Rip Southern States; 10 Dead; 1,000 Homes Destroyed
Apr 26 2010 // Dozens of tornadoes left a path of destruction more than 50 miles long throughout the southern U.S.—including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee—over the weekend. Ten people were...
Key Mississippi Katrina ‘Wind v. Water’ Case Settled Out of Court
Apr 15 2010 // A Mississippi couple and the insurer they were suing over hurricane damage to their coastal home from Hurricane Katrina have settled their closely-watched case out of court. The terms were not disclosed. The case, Corban...
Mississippi Jury Awards $19M to Women in Texaco Leaded Gas Suit
Apr 14 2010 // Attorneys for Texaco say they will appeal a $19 million verdict for five woman who alleged the oil company was responsible for their children born with disabilities and illnesses, including mental retardation. A Hinds...
3 From Mississippi Reportedly Sue Over Health Care Law
Apr 6 2010 // Three Mississippi residents have filed suit in federal court challenging the Obama Administration’s new health care law, a newspaper reported. The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg on behalf...
Mississippi Ends Wind Pool Subsidy
Apr 5 2010 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vetoed a bill that would have continued a program that designated part of the state’s insurance premium tax to fund the state’s insurer of last resort. Barbour said that at the...
Arguments to Lift Alcohol Ban Along Rivers Reach Mississippi High Court
Apr 1 2010 // A ban on alcohol along popular canoeing and rafting rivers in south Mississippi’s Pike County is illegal, the attorney for two outfitting business told the state Supreme Court this week. Alfred L. Felder of McComb,...
