All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 25 2006 // In a blow to hundreds of Mississippi homeowners whose insurance claims were denied after Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has ruled that they must file their lawsuits individually instead of in mass actions.Richard...
Sep 18 2006 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. has clarified the areas along Mississippi’s three southern most counties where it will not new property insurance policies.The company had announcement the change last Wednesday....
Sep 15 2006 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will no longer offer new property insurance policies within 2,500 feet of the coastline in some areas of Mississippi’s Harrison, Hancock and Jackson counties.The company made the...
Sep 14 2006 // Lincoln County, Miss., Sheriff Wiley Calcote resigned Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a single state charge of embezzlement.Calcote, who was in his first term, was indicted on 15 counts of embezzlement by a public official...
Sep 11 2006 // A group of Mississippi lawmakers last week quizzed some makers of modular homes about the quality and construction of their products.But after hours of discussion, legislators left the Capitol without making...
Sep 10 2006 // In a blow to hundreds of Mississippi homeowners whose insurance claims were denied after Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has ruled that policyholders suing their insurers must file their lawsuits individually instead of...
Sep 8 2006 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued proposed fines of $85,575 against three companies in the March deaths of two construction workers during the demolition of hurricane-damaged Grand Casino in...
Sep 8 2006 // Cynthia Smith remembers the horror her family endured when Hurricane Katrina’s flood waters rolled into their Gulfport, MIssissippi home and turned her world upside down.Smith and several family members — including...
Sep 6 2006 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick.The suit was filed in 2000 in...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance industry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
Sep 4 2006 // News CurrentsOne year later: Gulf Coast agents & Katrina recovery How 3 Mississippi Gulf Coast agents, their families and communities are progressingLast October, Insurance Journal spent two days in Mississippi...
Sep 4 2006 // While significant problems persist-severe damage to public infrastructure and reduced populations continue to present challenges-the billions of dollars in claims paid to date are helping fuel an increase in residential...
Sep 4 2006 // There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast....
Sep 4 2006 // 08/29/2006The national day of remembrance for all the victims of Hurricane Katrina and those who gave of their time and energy to save lives and help rebuild. $57 billionThe estimate of overall insured losses for damage to...
Sep 4 2006 // Hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed many misconceptions and misunderstandings that consumers had, or claimed to have had, with respect to their insurance coverage for hurricane related damage. The aftermath of these two...
Sep 4 2006 // On Aug. 15, 2006, a decision was handed down in the first post-Katrina insurance lawsuit to go to trial. Because there are thousands of lawsuits raising the same claims with millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake,...
Sep 4 2006 // The Midwest is not affected by hurricanes or hurricane seasons because obviously our only coastal regions involve the Great Lakes, not oceans. The central region of this country does have its own natural disasters in the...