Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi’s Jackson County Readying to Buy Flood Prone Properties
Jan 14 2010 // A program to buy oft-flooded properties in Jackson County, Mississippi may be moving forward after years of delays. After Hurricanes Georges in 1998 and Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and...
Mississippi-Based Hurricane Hunters Also Patrol Winter Skies
Jan 12 2010 // On a bitterly cold morning in Anchorage, Alaska, the Hurricane Hunters lift off to scout a weather track that may bring snow to the Northeast or flooding rains in California in the next five days. The winter mission of the...
Recent Tragedy Forcing Mississippi to Face Its Poor Fire Prevention Record
Jan 11 2010 // The nine fire deaths in Starkville on Dec. 28, including six children ages 6 and under, at the Academy Crossing apartment complex is the worst fatal fire to strike Mississippi in modern history and could cause the state to...
Mississippi to Thwart Coast-Only Filings
Jan 10 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he’s taking steps to discourage companies from seeking higher rates for the Gulf Coast or other specific areas of Mississippi. Chaney said he will require that...
Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Cap on Civil Damages
Jan 10 2010 // Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas’ lawsuit against the store where he was shot wouldn’t have gotten much attention. That’s anything...
Mississippi Rejects Allstate Rate Hike
Jan 8 2010 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator, as he earlier indicated he would do, has denied a request from Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. for a statewide home insurance price hike of about 60 percent. The...
Mississippi to Block Coast-Only Insurance Rate Filings
Dec 28 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he’s taking steps aimed at discouraging companies from seeking higher rates for the Gulf Coast or other specific areas of Mississippi. Chaney said he will require...
Mississippi Stabilizes Wind Pool Insurance Premiums with $19 Million
Dec 28 2009 // Property owners insured in the Mississippi wind pool may soon find some relief from rising premium costs with the transfer of $19 million from the Mississippi Insurance Department to the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting...
Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Cap on Civil Damages
Dec 21 2009 // Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas’ lawsuit against the store where he was shot wouldn’t have gotten much attention. That’s anything...
State Farm Rate Hike Not Easy But Necessary, Says Mississippi’s Chaney
Dec 11 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he was not happy about granting a 19.5 percent homeowners rate increase to State Farm, but he had little choice. “Would you want me to have 26,000 policies canceled...
Mississippi Attorney General to Target Intellectual Property Theft
Dec 10 2009 // Those behind the sophisticated computer software in Mississippi and elsewhere that tracks down child predators on the Internet are now targeting people who illegally download music and movies. “The good guys are...
March Trial Set for Lawsuit Over Mississippi Dam Break
Dec 9 2009 // A civil lawsuit filed over the damage caused by the 2004 collapse of the Big Bay Lake dam in Lamar County has been moved to Harrison County and set for a March 22 trial. Circuit Court Judge Michael Eubanks granted the...
Mississippi Allows 19.5% State Farm Coastal Rate Hike
Dec 1 2009 // Insurance rates for about 26,000 State Farm homeowners in three Mississippi coastal counties will rise 19.5 percent beginning in February. Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced the rate increase, noting...
Mississippi Court Upholds Judgment Against County Due to Insurer Default
Nov 30 2009 // A $250,000 default judgment against Tippah County has been upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The case was filed in 2007 by Daniel Childers of Ripley, who contended that his elbow was broken during an arrest by...
Mississippi County to Buy Insurance for Volunteer Fire Firefighters
Nov 30 2009 // Mississippi’s Lee County will spend more than $50,000 over the next three years on accident and life insurance for its 300-plus volunteer firefighters. The county’s 18 fire departments include only one —...
The Mississippi Supreme Court’s Anti-Concurrent Clause Decision
Nov 15 2009 // How Far Will It Go? On Oct. 8, 2009, the Mississippi Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Corban v. USAA, in which it addressed the enforceability and application of “Anti- Concurrent Cause” clauses (ACCs)...
Hurricane Ida Kills 124 in El Salvador; Heading for Gulf Oil Fields and U.S.
Nov 9 2009 // Hurricane Ida headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico on Monday on a path to the U.S. Gulf Coast after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides. U.S. oil companies were...
Actor Freeman Settles Mississippi Auto Accident Suit
Nov 9 2009 // Actor Morgan Freeman has settled a lawsuit related to a 2008 car accident that seriously injured him and a passenger, according to court records. Terms of the settlement were not released. Demaris Meyer filed a federal...
With Katrina Insurance Finally Settled, Mississippi College Starts Rebuilding
Oct 30 2009 // Pearl River Community College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is moving forward on rebuilding facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina after four years of “moving in quicksand.” Officials settled with Zurich...
Gulfport, Mississippi to Start Environmental Claims Court
Oct 29 2009 // Gulfport will start an environmental court next week to deal with derelict properties, tree ordinance violations, vandalism, building- and fire-code violations and other issues. Mayor George Schloegel plans to ask the city...
