All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2010 // Three Mississippi residents have filed suit in federal court challenging the Obama Administration’s new health care law, a newspaper reported.The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg on behalf...
Apr 5 2010 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vetoed a bill that would have continued a program that designated part of the state’s insurance premium tax to fund the state’s insurer of last resort.Barbour said that at the end...
Apr 1 2010 // A ban on alcohol along popular canoeing and rafting rivers in south Mississippi’s Pike County is illegal, the attorney for two outfitting business told the state Supreme Court this week.Alfred L. Felder of McComb,...
Mar 30 2010 // There’s no such thing as too much fire protection for a rural state such as Mississippi, says Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney.Chaney was among dozens of co-sponsors on a 1995 bill that created the Rural Fire Truck...
Mar 25 2010 // The federal government has awarded nearly $1 million to Mississippi to pay for smoke alarms in homes.The State Fire Marshal’s Free Smoke Alarm Installation Program is the recipient of the Department of Homeland...
Mar 24 2010 // Ecru, Mississippi insurance agent Ken Nowlin claims in court documents that he was given faulty advice by his attorney in a government kickback case and wants a new trial.In documents filed this month in U.S. District...
Mar 22 2010 // Kinsale CapitalKinsale Capital Group has formed a Virginia-based E&S insurer, called Kinsale Insurance Co., which will underwrite commercial property/casualty and professional liability E&S lines in 31 states and...
Mar 17 2010 // The Mississippi River is starting its spring climb with forecasters predicting a rise of more than a foot a day beginning at midweek.The result could be another year of flooding in the Vicksburg area. “Right now,...
Mar 17 2010 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed a bill that would have continued a program that designated part of the state’s insurance premium tax to fund the state’s property insurer of last resort.Barbour said...
Mar 12 2010 // Since rolling out seven automated driver’s license renewal kiosks three months ago, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has begun developing plans to add more throughout the state.“It seems to me that...
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....
Mar 5 2010 // The former chief of the New Sight Volunteer Fire Department has been sentenced to 10 years in prison with seven years suspended for embezzlement.Mike Boyd pleaded guilty this week in Lincoln County Circuit Court. The...
Mar 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded Mississippi insurance agent Ronnie Tubertini with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its...
Mar 4 2010 // Toward the end of 2009, it appeared that a number of issues with the possibility of creating significant political and social changes were on the verge of becoming law before stalling or imploding. One such issue with...
Mar 4 2010 // State Farm will offer discounts in Mississippi beginning May 1 for homes and rental property strengthened against wind damage.Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told The Sun Herald that he approved State Farm’s plan...
Mar 4 2010 // What began as a comprehensive school bus safety bill is still alive at the Capitol, but in a weakened form.The House Judiciary A Committee approved the bill on Monday, a day before a legislative deadline for committees to...
Mar 3 2010 // State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Safeco Insurance plans to offer homeowners insurance, including wind coverage, in south Mississippi.Chaney says the company will offer 500 to 1,000 homeowner policies wind...
Mar 1 2010 // The former chief of the New Sight Volunteer Fire Department has been charged with embezzlement. District Attorney Dee Bates told the Brookhaven Daily Leader that 37-year-old Mike Boyd was being held in the Lincoln County...
Feb 26 2010 // State Farm gave consumers one part of its policy change when it announced eight months ago it would resume issuing insurance policies in Mississippi.What the company didn’t say is it is writing policies on a...
Feb 23 2010 // Funeral processions are a time-honored tradition in the South, but the customary show of respect is dying in some cities.In Mississippi, the Gulfport Police Department recently decided to limit funeral processions to five...