All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2012 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney announced the promotions of two members of Mississippi Insurance Department personnel to key senior staff positions. Kimberly Gilmer Causey has been promoted to the...
Jul 10 2012 // A record-high 3.31 million residential and commercial policies were offered through state-run property insurers of last resort in the United States in 2011, a 17 percent increase over the previous record of 2.84 million in...
Jul 3 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out a $2.5 million judgment for a Jackson woman who lost sight in one eye when purse-snatchers beat her in a supermarket parking lot.A Hinds County jury in 2009 found The Kroger Co....
Jun 21 2012 // A 31-year-old Jones County, Miss., man is jailed on an insurance fraud charge.The state attorney general’s office told the Hattiesburg American, Terrell McAndrews of Heidelberg has been indicted and arrested on one...
Jun 20 2012 // A new ranking for the Columbus Fire Department could mean reduced insurance rates for home and business owners.The Commercial Dispatch reported that the Mississippi Rating Bureau has rated Columbus a “four,” up...
Jun 18 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant involving a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth, MIssissippi.The Daily Corinthian reported last week that U.S. District...
Jun 14 2012 // While state changes may provide more subsidized child care in Mississippi, parents are on their own when it comes to investigating the safety of facilities.The state Department of Health monitors and tracks potential...
Jun 11 2012 // A former on-air forecaster for The Weather Channel is suing the network, claiming it illegally discriminated against her because of her military service.Nicole Mitchell, a meteorologist, says in the suit that her contract...
Jun 11 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in a workplace asbestos exposure case in which a Jones County man was awarded $15.2 million.However, the Supreme Court did not rule on the jury verdict. Instead, the...
Jun 9 2012 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner says the state will receive nearly $1 million as part of a national settlement over American International Group’s financial reporting for worker’s compensation...
Jun 5 2012 // The mother of a man who died in an explosion at a Pascagoula, Mississippi fertilizer factory says her son never spoke of any safety problems at the plant.Twenty-year-old Jeremy Moore of Hurley died Friday — the second...
Jun 1 2012 // Hurricane Natasha was a fake storm, but Mississippi’s emergency responders treated it like it was the real thing.Natasha was a simulated Category 3 hurricane used Wednesday as part of a training exercise for the...
May 31 2012 // A federal appeals court panel has upheld a $420,000 verdict against two Mississippi lawyers accused by a railroad company of committing fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001.McComb attorneys William Guy and...
May 25 2012 // A federal appeals court has upheld the 37-month sentence handed to a Mississippi man convicted of defrauding a Memphis insurance company.The Commercial Appeals reported that a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit...
May 24 2012 // Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a law limiting the attorney general’s control of the state’s legal business.The law, House Bill 211,which takes effect July 1, requires the attorney general to appoint...
May 23 2012 // Ten Catholic groups in Mississippi are suing the Obama administration over a mandate that most employers provide birth control coverage as part of health insurance plans.Roman Catholic groups across the nation filed 12...
May 22 2012 // A forensic pathologist who sued the Innocence Project for defamation has accepted a $100,000 judgment to end the suit.The Clarion-Ledger reported that the Innocence Project said it agreed to the judgment because its...
May 21 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered different views of a bill they passed to change the compensation system for workers injured on the job.If Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signs the bill as is expected, it will become law July...
May 21 2012 // The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the owners of a Bay St. Louis restaurant cannot collect more than $300,000 they claimed to be owed by a local insurance agent after their business washed away in...
May 21 2012 // An insurance company selling federal flood insurance has won a case against a Mississippi homeowner who claimed the insurer was negligent in not informing him that he was eligible to buy a preferred risk policy with more...