Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Safety Summit to Address Fire Deaths in Mississippi
Jun 25 2007 // Latest statistics show a record 34 fire deaths occurred in Mississippi this year, an average of at least 5 a month, according to state officials. Commissioner of Insurance and State Fire Marshal George Dale will join an...
Miss.: Scruggs Files Racketeering Charges against State Farm
Jun 20 2007 // The Scruggs Katrina Group filed federal charges against State Farm, E.A. Renfroe Company, and Forensic Analysis and Engineering Company on behalf of 21 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane...
Vulnerable Outer Banks
Jun 18 2007 // Declarations “If we had a Katrina-sized storm, 75 percent of these islands could be gone. You can count on it cleaning the clock.” — Stan Riggs, a geologist at East Carolina University who has studied the...
Rasberry exits Miss. race
Jun 18 2007 // Jim Rasberry has withdrawn as a candidate for Mississippi insurance commissioner. Rasberry, president of Rasberry Financial Services in Laurel, said that he was withdrawing from the Democratic Party primary because it was...
Unsafe Work Conditions Caused Fatal Miss. Explosion, Feds Say
Jun 14 2007 // Unsafe work conditions contributed to a deadly oilfield explosion in Smith County, Miss., in 2006, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said this week. The board, an independent federal agency charged with investigating...
Jackson, Miss. Among Most Dangerous Cities in U.S.
Jun 14 2007 // Mississippi’s capitol city has had a dramatic one-year jump in crime placing it among the most dangerous in the country, according to information from the FBI’s preliminary Uniform Crime Report for 2006. The...
Trial Date Set in Mississippi Insurance Kickback Case
Jun 13 2007 // A July 23 trial date has been set for a former Lafayette County, Miss., supervisor and an Ecru businessman charged in kickback case involving a county employees’ health insurance program. The trial will be held in...
Jury Finds DuPont Dioxins Not Liable for Child’s Death
Jun 12 2007 // A Jones County, Mississippi jury has rejected a couple’s claim that dioxins from the DuPont Co.’s plant on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were responsible for the death of their daughter. The jury verdict came in a...
Miss. Attorney General Sues State Farm for Breach of Contract
Jun 12 2007 // In the Circuit Court of Hinds County Monday, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a complaint against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. alleging bad faith breach of contract related to the settlement agreement the...
Rasberry Exits Miss. Insurance Race
Jun 8 2007 // Jim Rasberry has withdrawn as a candidate for Mississippi insurance commissioner. Rasberry, president of Rasberry Financial Services in Laurel, said that he was withdrawing from the Democratic Party primary because it was...
Mississippi Casino Owners Make Storm Plans
Jun 6 2007 // Casino owners in South Mississippi were scheduled to meet Monday with the state Gaming Commission, local government officials and emergency personnel to ensure plans are in place if a hurricane targets the Gulf Coast. The...
State Farm Trial Scheduled on Claims by Mississippi Coast Resident
Jun 6 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. was scheduled to be back in federal court in Gulfport, Miss., on Monday in a lawsuit filed by a Pass Christian homeowner over damages from Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit was filed by...
Miss. Environmental Crews to Finish Creosote Cleanup in Hattiesburg
Jun 6 2007 // Hattiesburg’s Gulf States Creosote Plant shut its doors nearly 50 years ago, but the clean up of creosote continues. Environmental activists and property owners are far from satisfied with the project, said Sherri...
Delta officials fear effects of levee warning
Jun 4 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
Delta officials fear effects of levee warning
Jun 4 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
Katrina Attorneys’ Election Ads Attack Miss. Commissioner Dale
May 30 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale’s toughest opponent this year may not be another candidate but a band of attorneys that has launched newspaper and television ads criticizing him. The Scruggs Katrina...
Miss. Delta Officials Decry FEMA Flood Warning as ‘Alarming’
May 29 2007 // Officials in the Delta have accused the government of trying to scare local residents into buying flood insurance by suggesting the Mississippi River levees could be breached as were those around New Orleans during...
Miss. Commissioner Dale Defends Hiring Insurance Lobbyist as Lawyer
May 23 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says he sees no conflict in his having been represented in a ballot dispute by Greg Copeland, an attorney who is a longtime lobbyist for the insurance industry. “Yes, he...
Medicare Fraud on Rise in Mississippi
May 22 2007 // Insurance agents have sold fraudulent Medicare plans to an estimated 1,000 Mississippians over the past year, forcing them to spend months untangling the mess to regain coverage under a traditional Medicare program. State...
News Currents
May 21 2007 // State Farm to reopen 350 hurricane claims in Louisiana Holly Beach, La., October 3, 2005 – Nothing is left of the community of Holly Beach, once home to 300 residents and a favorite destination for thousands of...
