All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2009 // Willie Collins hasn’t forgotten his days as a football player in the 1970s, well before many of the advances in modern sports medicine.Frequent backaches and his recent hip replacement surgery provide all the...
Sep 22 2009 // An Army Corps of Engineers’ report is recommending a $1.2 billion coastal restoration plan for Mississippi.William Walker, director of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, called this a “significant...
Sep 21 2009 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator has given State Farm extra time to try to justify its request to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates an average 45 percent even though he has already indicated he won’t...
Sep 10 2009 // Mississippi’s insurance regulator has given State Farm another 30 days to try to justify its request to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates an average 45 percent even though he has already indicated he...
Sep 7 2009 // Coastal Caution“This is not a simple issue. It’s an issue that you’ve got to address with great caution.” —Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney telling an Alabama House of...
Sep 7 2009 // Grain Dealers/Main StreetGrain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co., an Indiana-domiciled regional property/casualty insurance company, will become an affiliate of Florida-based Main Street America if approved by the Indiana...
Sep 2 2009 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 15 post-Hurricane Katrina coastal recovery projects on the Mississippi Gulf Coast budgeted at $132 million, including projects costing $30.5 million in Jackson County.Susan Rees,...
Aug 26 2009 // August 29 will mark four years since Hurricane Katrina pummeled Mississippi. Since then, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and other state and...
Aug 25 2009 // State Farm is looking to raise coastal homeowners insurance rates in Mississippi an average 45 percent but the state regulator isn’t very receptive to the idea.“I am not going to approve the present...
Aug 19 2009 // Scouring an aerial photograph taken three days after Hurricane Camille crashed ashore on Mississippi’s Gulf coast, Richard Rose points to the spot where his father’s body washed into the chimney of a ruined...
Aug 14 2009 // The keys to holding down insurance premiums on the Alabama coast are strong enforcement of building codes, proper land use and mitigating homes against future disasters, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told...
Aug 11 2009 // Louisiana Retailers Mutual Insurance Company, a workers’ compensation insurer, has received regulatory approvals from the Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi departments of insurance to convert to a mutual insurance...
Aug 4 2009 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear a driving under the influence (DUI) case that revolves around the theory of “retrograde extrapolation.”Retrograde extrapolation is determining whether a person...
Aug 3 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney has already decided to run for re-election in 2011.Chaney made the announcement during remarks at the Neshoba Fair. He acknowledged that when he first...
Jul 31 2009 // A Mississippi convenience store owner who shot and killed a robber cannot seek coverage under his general liability policy for a wrongful death suit brought the victim’s survivors, a federal court has ruled.The suit...
Jul 27 2009 // Hurricane Katrina, in addition to causing unprecedented damage and destruction, added significantly to the workload of state and federal courts in Louisiana and Mississippi. Almost four years after the fact, those courts...
Jul 24 2009 // A judge has awarded $749,000 to the estate of a World War II veteran who lost much of his vision during a surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Jackson, Mississippi.Charles West died May 8,...
Jul 24 2009 // Allstate Insurance will close its Mississippi phone-claims center by Oct. 30, eliminating 63 local jobs.The claims center in Ridgeland has been in operation for about 30 years. Allstate spokesman Mike Siemienas says 33...
Jul 23 2009 // As the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, four new reports by Congress’ investigative arm have found a wide range of problems with the federal government’s handling of the storm’s...
Jul 21 2009 // Governors attending their national convention in Biloxi on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have seen signs of Hurricane Katrina recovery — glitzy casinos packed with tourists, new condominium towers rising along the...