Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida’s FCCI Now Owns 100% of Mississippi’s Brierfield Insurance Co.
Jan 8 2009 // FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI), a Sarasota, Florida-based commercial property and casualty insurer writing in excess of $500 million written premium in 14 states, has purchased Mississippi Insurance Managers. The transaction...
Mississippi Police Station Closed Due to Lapsed Workers’ Compensation Policy
Dec 31 2008 // The Port Gibson, Mississippi Police Department was open Monday, three days after a payment lapse on an insurance policy forced its closure. Mayor Fred Reeves said the workers’ compensation insurance policy for Port...
Former Mississippi Commissioner Featured at Texas Agents Event
Dec 23 2008 // The nation’s longest serving insurance commissioner, former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale, will share his unique post-Katrina insights on the regulatory challenges in the aftermath of large-scale...
Mississippi Approves Alfa Auto Insurance Rate Decrease
Dec 18 2008 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Alfa Insurance customers are about to pay less for their automobile coverage. Chaney has approved Alfa’s plan to decrease auto rates by as much as 2.1 percent,...
Leniency Asked for Mississippi Lawyer Caught in Scruggs Conspiracy
Dec 12 2008 // Mississippi U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, doctors, Prentiss County officials and hundreds of others have written letters asking a federal court to have mercy on their friend and colleague, former Booneville attorney Joey...
Mississippi Katrina Suit Challenges Funds for Port Instead of Homes
Dec 12 2008 // Housing advocates and low-income residents sued this week to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Mississippi...
Several Mississippi Counties Hit by Tornadoes
Dec 11 2008 // The National Weather Service says several possible tornadoes were reported in several counties late Tuesday night, damaging homes and knocking down trees and power lines. However, no injuries have been reported. Forecaster...
FEMA to Close Last Katrina Mobile Home Site in Mississippi
Dec 10 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the last of its group mobile home sites placed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina will soon close. Recently, two of the three remaining FEMA-built group sites...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Chaney Reports Progress in Rebuilding Markets
Dec 3 2008 // One year after he was elected, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says his state has made progress in rebuilding its insurance markets that were ruined by the 2005 hurricanes. Mississippi has done this by...
Madrid Zone Earthquake Study a Wake-Up Call for Tennessee, Other States
Nov 30 2008 // A new federal study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone predicts Tennessee would see the highest level of damage if there is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The study notes that the total economic impact of a series of NMSZ...
Study: Barges Source of Volatile Organic Compounds in Miss. River
Nov 25 2008 // Preliminary results of a new study by a Louisiana state agency show Mississippi River barges could be a major source of ozone-causing volatile organic compounds. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality recently...
Habitat for Humanity Homeowners in Mississippi Struggle to Pay Insurance
Nov 19 2008 // In four states along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, Habitat for Humanity came with a mission to build hundreds of homes during a spring blitz so people pushed into poverty after Katrina would have the chance to own a...
Mississippi Rebuilds Its Insurance Markets
Nov 16 2008 // Wind Pool Modernization, Better Building Code Enforcement and Carrier Recruitment Efforts Begin to Pay Off Back in January, when Mike Chaney was getting ready to be sworn in as Mississippi insurance commissioner after his...
Mississippi Katrina Report: No Fraud by State Farm
Nov 16 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. made questionable decisions in handling Hurricane Katrina claims, but a nearly two-year study found no pattern of fraud in Mississippi. The report by the Mississippi Insurance...
Deadline for Hurricane Gustav Disaster Funds Nears in Mississippi
Nov 11 2008 // Nov. 25, 2008, is the deadline to register for federal and state Hurricane Gustav disaster aid, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business...
Insurer Offering Coverage Discount for Home Fortification in Mississippi
Nov 3 2008 // Nationwide Insurance is offering up to 35 percent premium discounts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast to qualified policyholders who reinforce their houses against wind damage. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says...
Mississippi Katrina Report: No Insurer Fraud Pattern
Nov 3 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Cos. made questionable decisions in handling Hurricane Katrina claims, but a nearly two-year study found no pattern of fraud in Mississippi, according to a state agency report released Oct....
Alabama, Mississippi Agencies Among 6 Named Top Performers by Big ‘I’
Nov 2 2008 // Reagan Consulting and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) announced the Best Practices Agencies for 2008-2009. A total of 189 agencies from around the country maintained their...
Mississippi to Get $2 Million in Disaster Funds
Oct 31 2008 // Mississippi is one of 15 states that will share in $200 million allocated by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston. The money is for states affected by natural disasters. According to a HUD news...
Feds to Close Mississippi Disaster Office
Oct 30 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Recovery Center in Greenville, Miss. is set to close on Oct. 31. FEMA officials processed more than 2,100 applications and awarded more than $3 million for...
