Latest Mississippi Headlines
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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...
Miss. agrees to $80 million wind pool relief plan
Mar 26 2007 // Mississippi lawmakers have agreed upon a plan to use $20 million in premium taxes on policies statewide to help lower premiums for property owners in high-risk areas who are insured by the wind pool. The plan hashed out...
Dale Says He’ll Fight Removal from MIss. Democratic Ballot
Mar 21 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says he’ll take legal action to fight the Mississippi Democratic Party executive committee’s decision to remove him from the ballot. “I intend to continue to...
In Miss., Dale Moves In with State Farm Settlement as Scruggs Withdraws
Mar 21 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will re-examine more than 35,000 Mississippi policyholder claims filed after Hurricane Katrina and “make millions of dollars available” for additional payments, Mississippi...
As Insurance Premiums Soar After Katrina, Some in La. Are ‘Going Bare’
Mar 21 2007 // Disgusted with his insurance company after Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Simmie Harvey let his New Orleans homeowner policy lapse and left his house in the hands of a higher power. Somebody up there must like the 88-year-old...
Miss. Commissioner Dale Blocked from Running as Democrat
Mar 19 2007 // Insurance Commissioner George Dale has run as a Democrat eight times in his political career. But this year to his frustration, he won’t be allowed to do so. The Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee denied...
Settlement Reached in Miss. Homeowner’s Case Against State Farm
Mar 19 2007 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. avoided the court room and possibly days of litigation by settling out of court with a D’Iberville homeowner who sued the company after Hurricane Katrina reduced her house to a...
