Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi Football Player’s Pink Cleats Lead to Lawsuit
Nov 12 2010 // Attorneys for a Mississippi high school football player have sued the player’s school district claiming the athlete was kicked off the team for wearing pink cleats to practice. Deputy Superintendent Tom Duncan told...
Museum Preserves History of Deadly Mississippi Nightclub Fire
Nov 11 2010 // For 70 years, remembrances of the 209 people killed in the fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez have been limited to a historical marker, a small annual ceremony and a few scattered newspaper clippings. Now, the...
Allstate to Fight Denial of Mississippi Rate Hike
Nov 10 2010 // Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. wants a public hearing on the Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney’s denial of its request for a 44 percent home insurance rate hike. The company also wants...
Mississippi Court Denies Bid for Katrina Claims Data
Nov 8 2010 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Long Beach man who wanted the state to release records that would show the dollar amount of Hurricane Katrina claims denied by insurance...
Family of Mississippi Inmate Who Died Sues Town, Private Prison Firm
Nov 5 2010 // The family of an inmate who died in prison is suing the town of Walnut Grove and a private corrections company, claiming Dennis Earl Holmes was denied adequate medical care before dying of what the plaintiffs believe was...
Casino’s Barge Not Liable for Mississippi Marina’s Damage During Katrina
Nov 1 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction. The state...
Mississippi Executive Wins $103 Million in Lawsuit Against Lawyer
Oct 28 2010 // A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business. Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit...
Mississippi Casino’s Barge Not Liable for Marina’s Damage During Katrina
Oct 15 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction. Last week,...
Enforcement Issues Complicate Mississippi’s Efforts on Texting Drivers
Oct 13 2010 // Undoubtedly bills will be filed to strengthen Mississippi’s texting-while-driving ban during the 2011 legislative session, and questions about enforcement are sure to be raised. A law enacted in 2009 banned beginning...
Mississippi Insurance Chief, Allstate Spar Over Latest Rate Denial
Oct 4 2010 // Allstate Insurance alleges that Mississippi’s insurance chief ignored an internal actuarial report that justifies the insurer’s request for a 44 percent rate increase when he denied the bid. But Insurance...
Insurance Agent for Mississippi School System Denies Complaint
Sep 30 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said his office is looking into a complaint that a retiree benefit adviser in the Pascagoula school system steered retirees to private plan she was selling. Chaney told The...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Pushes Back At Allstate Rate Complaint
Sep 27 2010 // Allstate Insurance alleges that Mississippi’s insurance chief ignored an internal actuarial report that justifies the insurer’s request for a 44 percent rate increase when he denied the bid. But Insurance...
Mississippi Denies Allstate’s 44% Homeowners Rate Hike Request
Sep 21 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has denied Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co.’s requested 44 percent statewide homeowners rate increase. “Based on our internal reviews and that of our...
It Figures
Sep 20 2010 // $66,500 The refund that an Indiana insurance agent Timothy Allen Craig will pay to poultry farmers in Mississippi under a settlement announced by Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney. Chaney said the refund will go to 500...
Mississippi Agent to Pay $66,500 Refund
Sep 7 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says his office has reached an agreement with an agent to refund $66,5000 in policy fees to poultry farmers. Chaney said in a news release Friday that the action was taken...
Mississippi Building Hurricane-Proof Community
Sep 6 2010 // A community of hurricane-resistant homes is being built in Gulfport, Mississippi. The modular concrete homes will be built by Royal Concrete Concepts in Okeechobee, Fla., and sold through the company’s Mississippi...
Gulf States’ Post-Katrina Building Codes Get Low Marks
Sep 6 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building codes in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to the Institute for Business and Home Safety. “While there have...
How Katrina Changed Markets
Sep 6 2010 // Industry Came Through Five years after Hurricane Katrina lashed the coast and sunk New Orleans, it is true that the area has largely recovered, but it is not the same Gulf Coast it once was. The same is true for the...
Hurricane Katrina Changed the Market in Gulf States
Sep 6 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls. “Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
Mississippi Jury Hands Ford Motor $131 Million Verdict in Explorer Death
Sep 3 2010 // A Mississippi jury ordered Ford Motor Co. to pay $131 million to the family of a man who died while driving an Explorer, an attorney for the family said on Thursday. The trial centered on a 2001 accident involving Brian...
