All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2004 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and voluntary agencies continue to help Mississippians recover from Hurricane...
Sep 16 2004 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that President Bush ordered the release of federal disaster funds and emergency resources for...
Sep 15 2004 // In the last 24 hours, Gov. Haley Barbour urged Mississippians in the state’s three coastal counties to evacuate immediately in anticipation of Hurricane Ivan’s arrival, scheduled for late tonight or early...
Sep 15 2004 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, said that insured losses in the U.S. could range from $4 to $10 billion if Hurricane Ivan follows the latest...
Aug 6 2004 // A special legislative committee that is considering recommending the impeachment of Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher, who allegedly placed a campaign donation from a Mississippi man in his personal checking...
Aug 5 2004 // Ruth Phillips, CISR, CPIW, of the Morrell Agency Inc., in Magnolia, Mississippi, was awarded the 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award.The Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives (CISR) and the...
Jul 19 2004 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance George Dale announced that Hinds County Chancellor William Singletary approved an Order of Rehabilitation allowing the Mississippi Department of Insurance to assume control of the...
Jul 19 2004 // The torching of financier Martin Frankel’s $3 million mansion in Greenwich, Conn., was meant to destroy evidence of an insurance scam that cost Mississippi and other states millions, police said. But not everything...
Jul 9 2004 // Insurance Auto Auctions Inc. a provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services in the United States, announced the acquisition of Mid-South Salvage LLC, a 15-acre operation located in Jackson,...
Jun 24 2004 // Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B) announced the completion of its sale to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. of Richmond, B.C., Canada. Combined with MDA’s existing property information and valuation...
Jun 21 2004 // When we chatted by phone recently, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) had an air of excitement in his voice.No, I don’t necessarily think it was because he was talking with me, but more the fact that help was on the...
Jun 21 2004 // On June 3 Mississippi legislators were entering the third week of a special session called by Gov. Haley Barbour to consider comprehensive civil justice reform. They were back in Jackson just days after completing their...
Jun 17 2004 // The MassMutual Financial Group, a global diversified financial services organization, announced that Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and its affiliates would re-enter the market for Mississippi municipal bonds...
Jun 11 2004 // Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was wasting no time in telling national business leaders across the country about Mississippi’s newly-passed tort reform legislation.Gov. Barbour met this week with corporate...
Jun 3 2004 // On Thursday, the Mississippi House of Representatives voted 76-38 to concur with the Senate-passed version of HB 13, comprehensive tort reform legislation that should bring stability and predictability back to the...
Apr 22 2004 // Ronald Tubertini, the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) Government Affairs Committee, was presented with the Association’s highest individual government affairs...
Apr 19 2004 // With continued service to the state of Mississippi since the mid-70’s, Insurance Commissioner George Dale has been a steadying influence for the industry in the Magnolia State.When Dale was elected commissioner in...
Mar 30 2004 // Mississippi Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Millard Mackey and members of his staff recently participated in a two-day workshop designed to address the problem of juvenile fire setting, one of the reportedly fastest-growing...
Mar 11 2004 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale announced that the Mississippi State Rating Bureau has upgraded the public fire protection facilities of the Fisher Ferry Fire Protection District in Warren County.The fire...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...