All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2018 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner is pushing a bill to strip a tax subsidy and authority from the state’s insurer of last resort for hurricane-prone coastal residents.Commissioner Mike Chaney says the...
Jan 30 2018 // The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) and the Mississippi Collision Repair Association are partnering on an initiative designed to protect residents from buying cars damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.Following the...
Jan 29 2018 // Mississippi education officials said last week that a recently disclosed data breach by a testing vendor has exposed information from 663 students in Tupelo and Jefferson County.State Superintendent Carey Wright said that...
Jan 26 2018 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner is pushing a bill to strip a tax subsidy and authority from the state’s insurer of last resort for hurricane-prone coastal residents.Commissioner Mike Chaney says the...
Jan 25 2018 // The National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down in southern Mississippi. A mobile home was damaged in the Monday morning storm while some sheds and barns were damaged. National Weather Service meteorologist...
Jan 9 2018 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc., headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., and a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, has undergone a name change as of Jan. 1, 2018 and is now BXS Insurance.According to BXS Insurance President...
Jan 8 2018 // MS Amlin, the London-based specialist re/insurer, announced that a Bermuda-domiciled special purpose reinsurer, Viribus Re Ltd., has been created to provide collateralized capacity support for MS Amlin Syndicate...
Jan 8 2018 // A top Mississippi official said in December that the state will stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses purely because they haven’t paid court fines and fees, meaning tens of thousands of people who...
Jan 4 2018 // MS Amlin announced that Simon Beale, MS Amlin’s chief underwriting officer, will succeed Charles Philipps as CEO on April 1, 2018.With immediate effect Simon Beale will become deputy CEO, James Illingworth will...
Dec 27 2017 // The Mississippi Highway Patrol says nobody died in traffic accidents on roads they monitored during the long Christmas weekend. The holiday enforcement period on state and federal highways began Friday evening and ended...
Dec 22 2017 // The National Weather Service says a possible tornado has touched down in southern Mississippi.Forecaster Robert Ricks says people saw a funnel cloud north of the Salem community in Walthall County. Ricks says radar...
Dec 21 2017 // A top Mississippi official said Tuesday that the state will stop suspending people’s driver’s licenses purely because they haven’t paid court fines and fees, meaning tens of thousands of people who lost...
Dec 19 2017 // Surveillance video shows that an intruder lit the fire that damaged a building at a Mississippi community college.The predawn Thursday blaze damaged more than half of Mississippi Delta Community College’s...
Dec 18 2017 // A Mississippi city will pay more than $850,000 in back wages to more than 100 police officers following a federal investigation of payment practices. Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton’s administration released a statement...
Dec 11 2017 // An unusually heavy December snowfall across much of the Deep South tapered off Saturday, but icy road conditions left problems and thousands remained without electricity throughout the region.Forecasters warned that...
Dec 5 2017 // Hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama are suing more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, claiming the companies deceptively marketed and sold opioids.The Clarion Ledger reports the class-action federal lawsuit was filed...
Dec 4 2017 // Hudson Specialty Insurance has sued in federal court in Natchez, Miss., to nullify a policy covering a building that collapsed July 23 in the City of McComb, saying coverage was voided after the building owner took money...
Nov 27 2017 // Neon has announced the appointment of Richard Heppell as chief financial officer, effective Nov. 20.Most recently CFO at MS Amlin, Heppell oversaw the complex integration of the Amlin and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance...
Nov 27 2017 // An insurer says it shouldn’t have to pay for the collapse of a building in a southwest Mississippi city.Hudson Specialty Insurance has sued in federal court in Natchez to nullify its policy, saying the policy was...
Nov 20 2017 // An electrical fire inside a ventilation fan is believed to have fed a Thursday fire that destroyed a northeast Mississippi factory.Alcorn County Deputy Fire Coordinator Jackie Farr tells The Daily Cornithian that...