Latest Mississippi Headlines
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4 Arrested on Charges of Faking Mississippi Car Accident
Oct 5 2008 // The Mississippi attorney general’s office says four people have been arrested on charges they staged a car accident in Yazoo County to collect insurance money. Attorney General Jim Hood says the four have been...
Public Hearing In Mississippi to Highlight Coastal Insurance Issues
Sep 29 2008 // The Mississippi House of Representatives Insurance Committee will host a public hearing to discuss housing and insurance issues in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav and Ike. State Rep. and Chairman Walter Robinson...
Residents in Gustav-damaged Mississippi Counties OK’d for Aid
Sep 29 2008 // Residents in three Mississippi counties — Hancock, Harrison and Washington — are approved for individual disaster assistance as a result of damages from Hurricane Gustav which struck the state on Labor Day. The...
Dozens of Mississippi Cottages Condemned after Gustav
Sep 29 2008 // In Mississippi, Donnell Landtroop’s state-supplied cottage has mold on the walls and dried mud on the floor — the foul remnants of Hurricane Gustav, the second hurricane in three years to leave her family...
Reinsurers Tour Fortified Home During Mississippi Wind Pool Meeting
Sep 24 2008 // Nearing the end of a years-long highly specialized residential construction project, one Hurricane Katrina survivor has become a regular stop for insurance industry representatives touring along the Mississippi Gulf...
Court Clashes over Katrina Wind Damage Winding Down in Mississippi
Sep 22 2008 // It took three years for Mississippi resident, Scott Gordon, to resolve the dispute that Hurricane Katrina spawned with his insurance company. Anything resembling a full recovery from the storm will take much...
Torrential Rains Hit Missouri Causing Flash Floods
Sep 16 2008 // The remnants of Hurricane Ike brought heavy winds and torrential rains to Missouri on September 15, causing flash floods and raising new concerns about swelling rivers, including parts of the Mississippi and the...
Update: Mississippi Couple in Settlement with State Farm over Katrina
Sep 16 2008 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a Biloxi, Miss. couple over damage to their home from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed Sept. 15 in U.S....
Judge Dismisses Portions of Katrina Lawsuit in Mississippi
Sep 10 2008 // A Mississippi couple who accused their insurance company of using fraudulent Hurricane Katrina damage reports to keep from paying claims now says there’s no evidence the insurer acted negligently or in bad faith. A...
Simon Joins Specialty Risk Associates in Mississippi Office
Sep 9 2008 // Shreveport, La.-based wholesale insurance broker, Specialty Risk Associates Inc., added Cathy Simon to the staff of the firm’s Ridgeland, Miss., office. Simon, who specializes in Transportation underwriting, began...
Insurers Estimate Gustav Claims as HIgh as $10 Billion
Sep 4 2008 // Residential and commercial damages from Hurricane Gustav will trigger an estimated $4 billion to $10 billion in insurance claims, a third of which could affect the energy industry. While Gustav’s force paled in...
Hurricane Gustav Surge Floods Mississippi Casino
Sep 3 2008 // The ground floor of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Biloxi’s casino row was flooded during the storm surge from Gustav and wind-whipped water continued to splash into its parking garage on the afternoon of Sept....
State Farm, Allstate Agree on Mississippi Homeowners Rates
Sep 1 2008 // After months of separate discussion, State Farm and Allstate insurance companies reached an agreement with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney on homeowners insurance rate filings. Allstate will see a statewide...
Mississippi College Gets OK for Post-Katrina Projects
Aug 25 2008 // The Mississippi College Board gave the University of Southern Mississippi approval to spend $27.5 million to rebuild its Gulf Coast campuses devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago. The money will be a combination...
Federal Grant to Aid Attack on Fire Deaths in Mississippi
Aug 22 2008 // Mississippi’s rank as the leader in fire deaths in the nation could take a major blow soon and state fire officials couldn’t be happier. Their latest tool in the fight for fire death prevention is a nearly...
Mississippi Regulator Reaches Agreements with State Farm, Allstate
Aug 22 2008 // After months of separate discussion and negotiations, State Farm and Allstate insurance companies reached an agreement with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney on details of homeowners insurance rate...
Lawsuit that Led to Mississippi Tort Lawyer Scruggs’ Downfall Settled
Aug 21 2008 // A settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit that led to a bribery conviction for Mississippi-based anti-tobacco lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and several associates, an attorney said. Oxford attorney...
Cleaning Up After Hurricane Katrina
Aug 21 2008 // In both Mississippi and Louisiana, the principal argument in support of the alleged ambiguity was that the flood waters during Hurricane Katrina were pushed ashore by wind, a covered peril, and the flood exclusion did not...
Mississippi Lawyer Zach Scruggs to Report to Prison
Aug 15 2008 // Zach Scruggs must report to prison by Aug. 15 for knowing about the bribery scheme that also landed his father and law partner behind bars. Scruggs was indicted in November along with his father, famed tort attorney...
Mississippi Launches Concerted Drunk Driving Campaign
Aug 13 2008 // Mississippi state troopers, police officers and sheriff’s deputies are teaming up for a new program aimed at reducing drunk driving. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety is calling the program “Over the...
