All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 5 2010 // The family of an inmate who died in prison is suing the town of Walnut Grove and a private corrections company, claiming Dennis Earl Holmes was denied adequate medical care before dying of what the plaintiffs believe was...
Nov 1 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction.The state...
Oct 28 2010 // A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business.Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit Court...
Oct 15 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction.Last week,...
Oct 13 2010 // Undoubtedly bills will be filed to strengthen Mississippi’s texting-while-driving ban during the 2011 legislative session, and questions about enforcement are sure to be raised.A law enacted in 2009 banned beginning...
Oct 4 2010 // Allstate Insurance alleges that Mississippi’s insurance chief ignored an internal actuarial report that justifies the insurer’s request for a 44 percent rate increase when he denied the bid. But Insurance...
Sep 30 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said his office is looking into a complaint that a retiree benefit adviser in the Pascagoula school system steered retirees to private plan she was selling.Chaney told The...
Sep 27 2010 // Allstate Insurance alleges that Mississippi’s insurance chief ignored an internal actuarial report that justifies the insurer’s request for a 44 percent rate increase when he denied the bid. But Insurance...
Sep 21 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has denied Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co.’s requested 44 percent statewide homeowners rate increase.“Based on our internal reviews and that of our...
Sep 20 2010 // $66,500The refund that an Indiana insurance agent Timothy Allen Craig will pay to poultry farmers in Mississippi under a settlement announced by Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney. Chaney said the refund will go to 500...
Sep 7 2010 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says his office has reached an agreement with an agent to refund $66,5000 in policy fees to poultry farmers. Chaney said in a news release Friday that the action was taken...
Sep 6 2010 // A community of hurricane-resistant homes is being built in Gulfport, Mississippi.The modular concrete homes will be built by Royal Concrete Concepts in Okeechobee, Fla., and sold through the company’s Mississippi...
Sep 6 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building codes in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to the Institute for Business and Home Safety.“While there have...
Sep 6 2010 // Industry Came ThroughFive years after Hurricane Katrina lashed the coast and sunk New Orleans, it is true that the area has largely recovered, but it is not the same Gulf Coast it once was. The same is true for the...
Sep 6 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls.“Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
Sep 3 2010 // A Mississippi jury ordered Ford Motor Co. to pay $131 million to the family of a man who died while driving an Explorer, an attorney for the family said on Thursday.The trial centered on a 2001 accident involving Brian...
Aug 30 2010 // Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated 1,300 tragic deaths as well as $41.1 billion in insured losses across six states. Louisiana and Mississippi suffered the brunt of Katrina’s wrath followed by...
Aug 27 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls.“Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
Aug 18 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building code requirements in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to a new report from the Institute for Business and Home...
Aug 18 2010 // The attorney general of Mississippi dubbed the perpetrators of the staged car accident the Apple Dumpling Gang, a reference to the 1975 Disney movie about a gang of bunglers out to steal gold.The last of the seven...