Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Safeco to Offer Homeowners Insurance with Wind Coverage in Mississippi
Mar 3 2010 // State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Safeco Insurance plans to offer homeowners insurance, including wind coverage, in south Mississippi. Chaney says the company will offer 500 to 1,000 homeowner policies wind...
Ex-Fire Chief in Mississippi Charged with Embezzlement
Mar 1 2010 // The former chief of the New Sight Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with embezzlement. District Attorney Dee Bates told the Brookhaven Daily Leader that 37-year-old Mike Boyd was being held in the Lincoln County...
State Farm Follows ‘Lose-One, Write-One’ Policy in Mississippi
Feb 26 2010 // State Farm gave consumers one part of its policy change when it announced eight months ago it would resume issuing insurance policies in Mississippi. What the company didn’t say is it is writing policies on a...
Mississippi Town Limits Funeral Processions to 5 Cars
Feb 23 2010 // Funeral processions are a time-honored tradition in the South, but the customary show of respect is dying in some cities. In Mississippi, the Gulfport Police Department recently decided to limit funeral processions to five...
Missouri Governor: State Must Be Ready for Big Quake
Feb 22 2010 // Most experts believe it’s just a matter of time before another big earthquake strikes along the New Madrid fault line, and Gov. Jay Nixon says Missouri and neighboring states need to be ready. Nixon on Feb. 19...
Mississippi Homeowners Learning Credit Score Link to Insurance
Feb 21 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers...
Mississippi Court Rules on CGL Coverage for Subcontractor Work
Feb 19 2010 // A general contractor’s hiring of a subcontractor does not necessarily preclude coverage under its commercial general liability (CGL) policy for shoddy work performed by the subcontractor, Mississippi’s highest...
Mississippi House Advances Bill Banning Toy Lighters
Feb 12 2010 // Cigarette lighters that look like toys would be banned, under a proposal that’s advancing in the Mississippi Legislature. The House passed a bill, 94-25, this week to prohibit the sale of novelty...
Mississippi Charges Vicksburg Man with Arson of 10 Buildings, 2 Vehicles
Feb 10 2010 // Mississippi officials have charged a Vicksburg man with arson involving 10 buildings and two vehicles. A joint investigation between the Mississippi State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Vicksburg Fire Department and the...
How Anonymous Citizen Tipsters in Mississippi Help Stop Crime
Feb 8 2010 // Crime prevention takes more than the work of law enforcement officers. Mississippi citizens are also doing their part through a program called Crime Stoppers. The Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers has been in existence since...
Mississippi Homeowners Learning How Credit Score Affects Insurance Premium
Feb 5 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers...
Mississppi Judge in Scruggs’ Downfall Looks Back on Career
Jan 29 2010 // Outside Mississippi’s 3rd Judicial District, Henry Lackey is best known as the judge whose integrity and intrepidness led to the downfall of famed trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs and several colleagues. In his hometown...
Mississippi High Court Orders New Trial on Drunk Driving Charge
Jan 28 2010 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that Mary Reed Evans is entitled to present evidence in an effort to disprove prosecutors’ contention that her blood alcohol level was over the legal limit at the time she was...
Nationwide Seeks 11.7% Homeowner Insurance Increase in Mississippi
Jan 22 2010 // Nationwide Insurance has proposed a 11.7 percent increase in homeowner insurance premiums statewide. The rate request will take effect April 15 unless Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney denies it or has...
Mississippi’s Jackson County Readying to Buy Flood Prone Properties
Jan 14 2010 // A program to buy oft-flooded properties in Jackson County, Mississippi may be moving forward after years of delays. After Hurricanes Georges in 1998 and Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and...
Mississippi-Based Hurricane Hunters Also Patrol Winter Skies
Jan 12 2010 // On a bitterly cold morning in Anchorage, Alaska, the Hurricane Hunters lift off to scout a weather track that may bring snow to the Northeast or flooding rains in California in the next five days. The winter mission of the...
Recent Tragedy Forcing Mississippi to Face Its Poor Fire Prevention Record
Jan 11 2010 // The nine fire deaths in Starkville on Dec. 28, including six children ages 6 and under, at the Academy Crossing apartment complex is the worst fatal fire to strike Mississippi in modern history and could cause the state to...
Mississippi to Thwart Coast-Only Filings
Jan 10 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he’s taking steps to discourage companies from seeking higher rates for the Gulf Coast or other specific areas of Mississippi. Chaney said he will require that...
Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Cap on Civil Damages
Jan 10 2010 // Before Mississippi lawmakers passed tort reform that limited damages in civil litigation, Ronnie Lee Lymas’ lawsuit against the store where he was shot wouldn’t have gotten much attention. That’s anything...
Mississippi Rejects Allstate Rate Hike
Jan 8 2010 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator, as he earlier indicated he would do, has denied a request from Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. for a statewide home insurance price hike of about 60 percent. The...
