All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 31 2005 // May 30 through June 3 has been dedicated as Hurricane Awareness Week in Mississippi by the Mississippi Emergency Management Association.High wind speeds, tidal surge and tornadoes associated with hurricanes always grab...
May 27 2005 // Kevin O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Thomas Bolan, 80, of Flushing, New York, was sentenced this week for his role in Martin Frankel’s multi-million dollar...
Apr 19 2005 // Misrepresenting collateral used to secure a loan, submitting a fraudulent insurance claim and receiving the insurance payments has netted Kyle C. Ferrell, a former Jackson, Miss. Police officer and Hinds County...
Apr 13 2005 // A reassessment of damages caused in three flood-damaged Mississippi counties has been requested by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, which has requested additional preliminary damage assessment teams from the...
Apr 8 2005 // Mississippi lawmakers increased the state’s minimum auto liability limits during their regular legislative session which ended on Wednesday, an official of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies said...
Apr 7 2005 // Mississippi homeowners began contacting their insurance companies after severe thunderstorms, spawning powerful tornadoes, pummeled Mississippi from top to bottom, destroying or damaging at least 75 homes and ripping away...
Mar 28 2005 // Mississippi House Bill 722, a measure to increase motorists’ liability insurance coverage from $5,000 to $25,000 has been send by the House to Governor Haley Barbour for his signature.“It’s just asking...
Mar 9 2005 // A bill which will require Mississippi motorists to show proof of insurance when they have a vehicle inspected, are stopped at a roadblock or buy a new automobile license plate was passed yesterday by the Senate.The House...
Feb 8 2005 // Physicians, surgeons and dentists in Alabama and Mississippi will now have non-standard medical malpractice coverage available from NAS Insurance Services of Encino, Calif. In addition, NAS is considering malpractice to...
Feb 4 2005 // The Mississippi Legislature is considering raising automobile liability limits which could increase insurance premiums in the state. The Mississippi House and Senate each passed legislation on Thursday that for the first...
Dec 22 2004 // A two-and-a-half year old federal crop insurance fraud case has resurfaced in Mississippi, with questions arising about if a 1998 cotton crop was insurable.In 2002, Judge Neal Biggers, dismissed four federal crop insurance...
Dec 20 2004 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out an $80 million damage award involving a breach of contact lawsuit in Copiah County. The justices said the case was erroneously filed in Mississippi and should have been filed in...
Dec 15 2004 // The third annual “Judicial Hellholes” report – a ranking of the worst courts in the United States – shows a disturbing scenario for one Illinois county.As a result of what happens in the Hellhole...
Dec 2 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) is urging the Mississippi Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision that mandates insurance companies to provide coverage for punitive damages in automobile...
Nov 22 2004 // An $80 million damage award involving a breach of contract lawsuit was thrown out of court on Monday by the Mississippi Supreme Court in Jackson. The justices said the case was erroneously filed in Mississippi and should...
Nov 8 2004 // Travelers–the nation’s second-largest commercial insurance company–have told him they are returning to Mississippi. “Those who said tort reform would do no good were wrong,” Dale said....
Nov 2 2004 // Mississippi’s largest insurer, State Farm, is easing its homeowner’s growth restrictions in the state. According to Commissioner of Insurance George Dale, this announcement demonstrates the company’s...
Nov 2 2004 // Trustmark Corporation, parent of Jackson, Miss.-based Trustmark National Bank, announced today it will acquire Fisher-Brown Inc., an insurance agency in northwest Florida.Fisher-Brown will become a wholly owned subsidiary...
Oct 5 2004 // Undervaluation statistics for U.S. homeowners business continue to improve, according to Peter M. Wells, senior vice president of Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B).MS/B, a provider of building cost data and estimating...
Oct 4 2004 // The Hennessey Agency, an independent insurance broker located in Vicksburg, Mississippi, has joined the Leavitt Group, a national company with nearly 100 agency locations. John Hennessey, president of the Hennessey will...