Latest Mississippi Headlines
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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,...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Hopes Rural Fire Truck Program Continues
Mar 30 2010 // There’s no such thing as too much fire protection for a rural state such as Mississippi, says Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney. Chaney was among dozens of co-sponsors on a 1995 bill that created the Rural Fire...
Mississippi Receives $1 Million Federal Grant for Home Smoke Alarms
Mar 25 2010 // The federal government has awarded nearly $1 million to Mississippi to pay for smoke alarms in homes. The State Fire Marshal’s Free Smoke Alarm Installation Program is the recipient of the Department of Homeland...
Mississippi Insurance Agent Seeks New Trial in Federal Scam Conviction
Mar 24 2010 // Ecru, Mississippi insurance agent Ken Nowlin claims in court documents that he was given faulty advice by his attorney in a government kickback case and wants a new trial. In documents filed this month in U.S. District...
Business Moves
Mar 22 2010 // Kinsale Capital Kinsale Capital Group has formed a Virginia-based E&S insurer, called Kinsale Insurance Co., which will underwrite commercial property/casualty and professional liability E&S lines in 31 states...
Mississippians Told to Expect April Floods
Mar 17 2010 // The Mississippi River is starting its spring climb with forecasters predicting a rise of more than a foot a day beginning at midweek. The result could be another year of flooding in the Vicksburg area. “Right now,...
Mississippi Ends Special Subsidy for Coastal Wind Pool
Mar 17 2010 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed a bill that would have continued a program that designated part of the state’s insurance premium tax to fund the state’s property insurer of last resort. Barbour said...
Mississippi to Add More Kiosks That Automate Driver’s License Renewals
Mar 12 2010 // Since rolling out seven automated driver’s license renewal kiosks three months ago, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has begun developing plans to add more throughout the state. “It seems to me that...
Insurers Restricting Coastal Exposure
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....
Former Mississippi Town Fire Chief Sentenced for Embezzlement
Mar 5 2010 // The former chief of the New Sight Volunteer Fire Department has been sentenced to 10 years in prison with seven years suspended for embezzlement. Mike Boyd pleaded guilty this week in Lincoln County Circuit Court. The...
Mississippi Insurance Agent Tubertini Honored by Association
Mar 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded Mississippi insurance agent Ronnie Tubertini with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its...
Global Warming Litigation Just Getting Started; Costs Will Be Significant
Mar 4 2010 // Toward the end of 2009, it appeared that a number of issues with the possibility of creating significant political and social changes were on the verge of becoming law before stalling or imploding. One such issue with...
State Farm to Offer Storm Mitigation Credits in Mississippi
Mar 4 2010 // State Farm will offer discounts in Mississippi beginning May 1 for homes and rental property strengthened against wind damage. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told The Sun Herald that he approved State Farm’s plan...
Mississippi Weighs Stripped-Down School Bus Safety Bill
Mar 4 2010 // What began as a comprehensive school bus safety bill is still alive at the Capitol, but in a weakened form. The House Judiciary A Committee approved the bill on Monday, a day before a legislative deadline for committees to...
