Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
MS Amlin Launches New Operating Model and Senior Leadership Team
Nov 27 2019 // MS Amlin, the London-based re/insurer, announced a new operating model and senior leadership team in response to the recent decision by its parent company, MS&AD, to reorganize its international businesses. This...
Sexual Abuse Victims Claim Catholic Church Pressured Them Into Unfair Settlements
Nov 25 2019 // Two impoverished Mississippi men who say they were sexually assaulted by Franciscan missionaries filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming that Catholic officials pressured them into signing settlements that paid them...
Mississippi Police Officer Sues Over Gender Bias
Nov 20 2019 // A woman is suing a Mississippi police department where she was the sole female officer. News outlets report Tiffany McClure sued the city of Lumberton for discrimination on Wednesday, saying she was fired last year as a...
Chaney Elected to 4th Term as Mississippi Insurance Commissioner
Nov 7 2019 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner was re-elected to a fourth term Tuesday. Mike Chaney, a Republican, defeated his Democratic challenger Robert Amos of Byram who does private job training. Mike Chaney A former...
Mississippi Highway Worker Killed Clearing Trees from Road
Oct 29 2019 // A Mississippi highway maintenance supervisor has been killed in an accident while clearing trees from a highway following stormy weather. The Mississippi Department of Transportation says in a news release that Jason Boyd...
Remnants of Olga Push into Mississippi, Leaving Damage
Oct 28 2019 // What’s left of Tropical Storm Olga was causing soggy conditions in Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday and dozens of flights were canceled or delayed at New Orleans’ main airport after two power outages. There...
MS Amlin Exits Aviation Insurance Market
Oct 14 2019 // MS Amlin, the London-based re/insurer and subsidiary of MS&AD, confirms its exit from the aviation insurance market, effective from Oct. 14 when it will cease underwriting aviation insurance renewals or new...
MS Amlin Exits 9 Non-Core Classes of Business, with a New Focus on 3 Core Markets
Oct 1 2019 // MS Amlin, the London-based re/insurer and subsidiary of MS&AD, announced a new underwriting strategy that focuses on three core, non-commodity markets, while exiting nine non-core markets, which no longer fit in its...
Mississippi Woman Ordered to Pay $2M Over Car Crash Caused by Loose Donkey
Sep 25 2019 // A Mississippi woman whose loose donkey caused a fatal car crash has been ordered to pay more than $2 million in a wrongful death lawsuit last month. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports K.K. Henderson Kent was sued by Sandra...
Allianz, MS&AD, Other Suitors in Race to Buy Aviva’s Asia Units for Up to $2.5B: Sources
Sep 24 2019 // German insurer Allianz, Nippon Life and MS&AD Insurance are vying with rivals to buy the Singapore and Vietnam businesses of Britain’s Aviva in a deal likely to be worth up to $2.5 billion, sources...
Gulf Coast Seafood Biz Slammed by Freshwater from This Year’s Floods
Sep 23 2019 // Fresh water from Midwestern floods has killed oysters along the coasts of three states and cost Mississippi half of its blue crabs. Water that came through a Louisiana spillway killed 95% of the oysters in...
Damaged Barge Removed After Spilling 117K Gallons of Oil in Mississippi Waterway
Sep 19 2019 // Crews have removed a damaged barge that spilled oil from Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in northeast Mississippi. U.S. Coast Guard Lt. David Schneider tells WTVA-TV that the Jamie Whitten Lock remains closed as cleanup...
Southern Fidelity Insurance Recruiting New Agents in Mississippi
Sep 18 2019 // Southern Fidelity Insurance Company, a regional insurance company serving consumers throughout the Southeast, is looking to recruit local agents in Mississippi after expanding into the state in July. The company, which has...
Mississippi Proposes New Labeling Regulations for Plant-Based Foods
Sep 13 2019 // Mississippi is considering new rules that let companies continue to use food-labeling terms such as “veggie burger” and “vegan bacon,” as long as the terms are prominently displayed so consumers...
Driver Killed, 8 Children Injured in Mississippi School Bus Crash
Sep 12 2019 // A school bus driver is dead and eight children have injuries after a school bus rolled over in northern Mississippi. The Mississippi Highway Patrol tells news outlets that the bus driver died in the Tuesday morning...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Phil Bailey & Associates of Mississippi
Sep 6 2019 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Phil Bailey & Associates, P.A. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Oxford, Miss., Phil Bailey & Associatesis an employee benefits brokerage...
MS Amlin Names Beazley as Head of Reinsurance, Replacing Few Who Joins TigerRisk
Sep 4 2019 // Global re/insurer MS Amlin announced that Chris Beazley, CEO of MS Amlin AG, will be expanding his leadership role to include all of MS Amlin’s reinsurance business with immediate effect. Beazley takes over the...
2019 Extreme Weather Leads to Agriculture Disaster Areas in 45 Mississippi Counties
Sep 2 2019 // U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named 45 Mississippi counties primary natural disaster areas because of freezing, flooding, flash flooding and excessive rain. Producers who had losses from those causes since...
45 Mississippi Counties Declared Primary Agriculture Disaster Areas Due to Weather
Aug 23 2019 // U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has named 45 Mississippi counties primary natural disaster areas because of freezing, flooding, flash flooding and excessive rain. Producers who had losses from those causes since...
Flooded Mississippi River Still a Threat as Hurricane Season Heats Up
Aug 19 2019 // The river that drains much of the flood-soaked United States is still running far higher than normal, menacing New Orleans in multiple ways just as the hurricane season intensifies. For months now, a massive volume of...
