Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Allstate Wins 29% Rate Hike in Miss.; Resumes Coastal Writings
Apr 20 2007 // Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate...
Hearing Set for Ballot Challenge by Miss. Commissioner Dale
Apr 20 2007 // A judge has scheduled arguments for April 27 in a court challenge filed by Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale against the Mississippi Democratic Party’s decision to keep him off the Aug. 7 ballot. Circuit...
Nationwide Agrees to Readjust 500 Miss. Katrina Claims
Apr 20 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said. The so-called...
Judge Vows He’s Still Open to Mass Settlement of State Farm Katrina Claims in Miss.
Apr 18 2007 // A federal judge said this week that his “door is open” to a mass settlement of disputed insurance claims in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, but he won’t endorse a proposed class-action settlement of...
Miss. Court Upholds $1.5 Million Award for Railroad Injury
Apr 16 2007 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a $1.5 million judgment against Canadian National/Illinois Central railroad in a favor of a worker injured in 2000 at the Jackson train yard. In the closely decided case, three...
State Farm Begins Reevaluation of Mississippi Katrina Claims
Apr 13 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it reached last month with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George...
Miss. Wind Pool Slashes Commercial Rate Hike Using Federal Funds
Apr 12 2007 // A new Mississippi insurance wind pool board on Tuesday approved a 142 percent increase for commercial premiums, a rate that’s significantly lower than it could have been because of $30 million from the federal...
New Cottages Offer Hope to Mississippi Residents Still in FEMA Trailers
Apr 10 2007 // Renee McDaniel is not unlike many residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Her home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, her family is packed into a government-issue trailer and her insurer paid just enough to replace the...
38 More Miss. Katrina Suits Settled in Mediation, Judge Reports
Apr 6 2007 // Thirty-eight more Hurricane Katrina insurance cases of Mississippi residents have been settled during court-order mediation, says U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. More mediations will begin in May, according to...
Miss. Democrats Ask for Trial Over Primary Ballot Control
Apr 4 2007 // Attorneys for plaintiffs wanting to keep non-Democrats from voting in Democratic Party primaries have asked a federal judge to let a trial go on, as scheduled. There is disagreement within the Democratic Party about the...
Miss. Wind Pool Prepares Rate Cuts After Feds Give $30 Million
Apr 4 2007 // The Mississippi wind insurance pool has received $30 million from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The funding, in the form of a Federal Community Development Block Grant, is a one time deal,...
Miss. Supreme Court Assigns Judges to Hear Candidate Challenges
Mar 30 2007 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has assigned judges to hear challenges by candidates disqualified by political parties for statewide or legislative office. Most of those removed from the ballot filed as Democrats, but there...
State Farm Settles Another Katrina Claim Lawsuit in Miss.
Mar 30 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has reached another settlement with a Mississippi Gulf Coast couple who sued the insurer over damage to their home from Hurricane Katrina. State Farm spokesman Phil Supple told The...
Insurers Commend Mississippi’s New Mitigation Program
Mar 30 2007 // The Mississippi Legislature put its stamp of approval on a comprehensive homeowner mitigation program earlier this week, giving final approval to HB 753 and sending it to Gov. Haley Barbour. The program has the potential...
Jackson, Miss. Law Firm Sues Scruggs Katrina Group over Fee Dispute
Mar 29 2007 // A Jackson, Mississippi law firm has sued millionaire trial attorney Richard Scruggs for allegedly withholding money it claims it was owed for working on Hurricane Katrina insurance-related litigation. The lawsuit was filed...
Declarations
Mar 26 2007 // Mississippi freethinker “I have been a freethinker for a long time. I haven’t a clue why they did this.” Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale, who has run as a Democrat eight times in his...
1,200 MISS. HOMES DEMOLISHED
Mar 26 2007 // The federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved more flexible rules that will mean about 1,200 hurricane-damaged homes in south Mississippi can be torn down. The EPA’s No Action Assurance program runs until...
Miss. State Farm $50 million settlement falters
Mar 26 2007 // Some of the lawyers who helped negotiate a proposed settlement affecting some 36,000 claims with State Farm Insurance Cos. over Hurricane Katrina damage have withdrawn their request for a federal judge to approve the...
Class Action for Miss. Katrina ‘Slab’ Claims Denied a Third Time
Mar 26 2007 // In his decision to again disallow a class action suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. regarding “slab” claims from damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, U.S. District Court Judge L.T. Senter Jr. said he...
Miss. Gov. Barbour Signs Wind Pool Premium Relief Bill
Mar 26 2007 // Gov. Haley Barbour signed a new law on March 22 designed to shore up Mississippi’s insurer of last resort and to bring economic stability to a state still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina plowed...
