State Farm to Resume Selling Renters, But Not Homeowners, in Mississippi

State Farm said it will resume selling renters insurance in parts of Mississippi away from the Gulf Coast.

Company spokesman David Majors said that State Farm will still not be selling new homeowners policies anywhere in the state, but will sell renters policies except in Jackson, Harrison and Hancock counties.

State Farm stopped selling new homeowners and renters policies in Mississippi in February 2007, citing the avalanche of legal challenges that followed 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.