Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi County Lowers Its Flood Insurance Premiums
Dec 26 2012 // An improved flood prone rating means Pearl River County residents will see a 10 percent reduction in monthly insurance premiums. The Picayune Item reports that county planner Ed Pinero Jr. says the county has moved from an...
Tornadoes Strike in Texas
Dec 26 2012 // Christmas Day along the Gulf Coast was filled with severe thunderstorms that brought drenching rains, high winds and damaging tornadoes while the nation’s midsection dealt with freezing rain, sleet and snow that made...
Mississippi Regulator Advises Holiday Decorating With Safety in Mind
Dec 12 2012 // This Christmas, hanging the stockings by the chimney is not the only holiday decorating that needs to be done with care. Mississippi’s Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney recommends that...
Main Street America Launches Commercial Lines in Mississippi
Dec 12 2012 // The Main Street America Group has announced it will start offering commercial line products in Mississippi through 50 independent agents that represent the insurer’s affiliate, Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. The...
Texaco Disputes $17 Million Mississippi Claim Over Children’s Disabilities
Dec 5 2012 // Attorneys for Texaco Inc. argued this week that no evidence showed the oil company was responsible for ailments of children born to five women who claimed they were exposed to leaded gasoline fumes. Texaco, now part of...
Mississippi Upholds Funeral Policy Restriction
Dec 3 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled the there was nothing improper about pre-need funeral services contracts written by Waller Funeral Home that forbid their transfer to another provider. Coleman Funeral Home had...
Homeowners in Mississippi’s Moss Point Fight Flood Insurance Rules
Nov 29 2012 // Moss Point officials hope a city judge will set a court date in December to determine if 47 properties must comply with rules to elevate homes in flood plains. Andrew R. Beamon, who became director of the city’s...
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Funeral Policy Restriction
Nov 19 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled the there was nothing improper about pre-need funeral services contracts written by Waller Funeral Home that forbid their transfer to another provider. Coleman Funeral Home had...
Mississippi Kmart Flooding Case Set for Trial
Nov 16 2012 // The Mississippi city of Corinth and the Kroger Co. have asked a federal judge to dismiss them as defendants in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth. Kmart Corp. is seeking compensation for flood damage at...
Court Invalidates Sex Harassment Award to Southern Mississippi Coaches
Nov 9 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled against three former University of Southern Mississippi soccer coaches who claimed sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. The Hattiesburg American reported that the ruling...
Faulkner Estate in Mississippi Files Copyright Suit Over Quotes in Movie, Ad
Oct 31 2012 // William Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead. His heirs say their copyright to that phrase is very much alive. The author’s literary estate is suing Sony Pictures Classics for using a paraphrase of the line in...
Mississippi Jury Rules Helmet Maker Not Liable for High Schooler’s Injury
Oct 26 2012 // A Mississippi jury has decided that helmet-manufacturer Riddell is not responsible for the injury of a George County High School football player in 2006. Court documents said that the plaintiff, who was a minor at the time...
Miss. Motorist Sentenced for Fraudulently Filing Duplicate Claims
Oct 25 2012 // Authorities in Mississippi announced this week that a local motorist will spend 12 months in jail for committing insurance fraud. Motorist Johnnetta White was sentenced to three years in the custody of the Mississippi...
Federal Agency Joins Mississippi Hotel Fire Probe
Oct 23 2012 // Federal investigators have joined the investigation into last Wednesday’s fire at a Howard Johnson Inn on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The fire burned through the roof of the three-story hotel, doing an estimated $4...
Midwest Farmers Planted Most of Land Flooded in 2011
Oct 22 2012 // Farmers this spring were able to plant all but a few thousand acres of the land deluged by last year’s flooding along on the Missouri River and the intentional breaching of a Mississippi River levee in southeast...
Federal Court Seeks New Briefs in Challenge to Mississippi Damages Cap
Oct 22 2012 // A federal appeals court has asked parties involved in a personal injury lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages to re-brief the issue. The 5th Circuit...
Mississippi High Court to Hear Texaco Appeal Over Gas Tank Fumes
Oct 19 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 3 in Texaco’s appeal of a $19 million verdict for five women who alleged the oil company was responsible for their children born with...
Federal Court Seeks Rebriefing on Mississippi Damages Cap
Oct 15 2012 // A federal appeals court has asked parties involved in a personal injury lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi’s $1 million cap on non-economic damages to re-brief the issue. The 5th Circuit...
Gulf States Pressure Obama Over BP Spill Settlement Funds
Oct 8 2012 // Senators from the U.S. Gulf Coast urged President Barack Obama on Friday to ensure that any legal settlement for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill does not undermine a recently passed law that would funnel billions of...
Mississippi Case Challenges Death Certificate As Evidence in Accident
Oct 8 2012 // Prosecutors have asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to reinstate the conviction of Jeffrey Dale Beecham, who won a new trial because the state failed to offer testimony to authenticate a death certificate in a fatal DUI...
