Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Court Rules Home Insurance Policy Covers Hurricane Wind Damage
Oct 9 2009 // In a 9-0 decision, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that so-called “all-risk” home insurance policies may cover wind damage from hurricanes, even in situations where the loss is later exacerbated by...
Economic Outlook for Coastal Mississippi, Alabama Brightens
Oct 8 2009 // The economic outlook should brighten in 2010-2011 for the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, but that’s not the case for the New Orleans area, an economist said this week at a regional economic forum. Lack of business...
Mississippi Ruling on State Farm Rate Hike Expected Next Month
Oct 7 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says he will decide soon whether State Farm can boost homeowners’ rates in three coastal counties. Chaney told the editorial board of The Clarion-Ledger newspaper that...
Mississippi City Gets Tough Over Fire Code Violation
Oct 6 2009 // A Gulfport, Mississippi business has been hit with what may be the largest fine in the city’s history. Kevin Lock says he’s struggling to get by after a city judge ordered him to pay $125,000 for failing to...
Mississippi Coaches Work to Lower Injury Rate in School Sports
Sep 29 2009 // Willie Collins hasn’t forgotten his days as a football player in the 1970s, well before many of the advances in modern sports medicine. Frequent backaches and his recent hip replacement surgery provide all the...
Army Engineers Recommend $1.2 Billion Coastal Plan for Mississippi
Sep 22 2009 // An Army Corps of Engineers’ report is recommending a $1.2 billion coastal restoration plan for Mississippi. William Walker, director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, called this a “significant...
Mississippi’s Chaney on State Farm 45% Hike: No Way
Sep 21 2009 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator has given State Farm extra time to try to justify its request to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates an average 45 percent even though he has already indicated he won’t...
Mississippi’s Chaney Not Backing Down in Fight Against State Farm 45% Hike
Sep 10 2009 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator has given State Farm another 30 days to try to justify its request to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates an average 45 percent even though he has already indicated he...
Declarations
Sep 7 2009 // Coastal Caution “This is not a simple issue. It’s an issue that you’ve got to address with great caution.” —Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney telling an Alabama House of...
Business Moves
Sep 7 2009 // Grain Dealers/Main Street Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., an Indiana-domiciled regional property/casualty insurance company, will become an affiliate of Florida-based Main Street America if approved by the Indiana...
Mississippi Coast Benefits from U.S. Spending on Post-Katrina Projects
Sep 2 2009 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 15 post-Hurricane Katrina coastal recovery projects on the Mississippi Gulf Coast budgeted at $132 million, including projects costing $30.5 million in Jackson County. Susan Rees,...
Numbers Tell of Reconstruction of Mississippi Since Hurricane Katrina
Aug 26 2009 // August 29 will mark four years since Hurricane Katrina pummeled Mississippi. Since then, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and other state and...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Criticizes State Farm’s 45% Coastal Rate Hike
Aug 25 2009 // State Farm is looking to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates in Mississippi an average 45 percent but the state regulator isn’t very receptive to the idea. “I am not going to approve the present...
Gulf Coast Can’t Forget Hurricane Camille of 40 Years Ago
Aug 19 2009 // Scouring an aerial photograph taken three days after Hurricane Camille crashed ashore on Mississippi’s Gulf coast, Richard Rose points to the spot where his father’s body washed into the chimney of a ruined...
Mississippi Commissioner Offers Alabama Advice on Coastal Insurance
Aug 14 2009 // The keys to holding down insurance premiums on the Alabama coast are strong enforcement of building codes, proper land use and mitigating homes against future disasters, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told...
Louisiana Retailers Mutual Converts to Holding Company System
Aug 11 2009 // Louisiana Retailers Mutual Insurance Company, a workers’ compensation insurer, has received regulatory approvals from the Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi departments of insurance to convert to a mutual insurance...
Mississippi High Court to Hear Case Challenging Drunk Driving Test
Aug 4 2009 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear a driving under the influence (DUI) case that revolves around the theory of “retrograde extrapolation.” Retrograde extrapolation is determining whether a person...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Chaney to Run for Second Term in 2011
Aug 3 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney has already decided to run for re-election in 2011. Chaney made the announcement during remarks at the Neshoba Fair. He acknowledged that when he first...
No Coverage for Wrongful Death in Shooting of Mississippi Robber
Jul 31 2009 // A Mississippi convenience store owner who shot and killed a robber cannot seek coverage under his general liability policy for a wrongful death suit brought the victim’s survivors, a federal court has ruled. The suit...
Challenges to Anti-Concurrent Cause Clauses Linger in Katrina Lawsuits
Jul 27 2009 // Hurricane Katrina, in addition to causing unprecedented damage and destruction, added significantly to the workload of state and federal courts in Louisiana and Mississippi. Almost four years after the fact, those courts...
