All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2009 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has signed legislation to help control insurance costs for coastal property owners.Business supporters of the bill contend it will also serve as an economic stimulus. The bill appropriates...
Jul 20 2009 // Hurricane Katrina brought the question of the validity and applicability of ACCs to the forefront.Hurricane Katrina, in addition to causing unprecedented damage and destruction, added significantly to the workload of state...
Jul 20 2009 // One of the nation’s largest insurers has unveiled a plan to shift the authority for regulating rates for hurricane wind coverage from state regulators to an independent federal commission.Mississippi Gov. Haley...
Jul 2 2009 // Mark Haire, general counsel for the Mississippi Insurance Department (MID), has been named deputy commissioner by Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney. Haire, a Mississippi native, is a graduate of Mississippi College and...
Jul 1 2009 // TAPCO Underwriters, Inc., a Burlington, North Carolina-based excess and surplus lines managing general agency, is now offering its services to retail insurance agents in Mississippi.TAPCO is known for its unique service...
Jul 1 2009 // Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has signed legislation to help control insurance costs for coastal property owners.Business supporters of the bill contend it will also serve as an economic stimulus. The bill appropriates a...
Jun 24 2009 // Some Biloxi homeowners who use the wind pool for insurance may qualify for a 20 percent credit on their coverage. The wind pool — or Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association — is the insurer of last...
Jun 10 2009 // When Leakesville, Mississippi volunteer firefighter Scottie Holland was injured in January, it could have crippled him physically and financially.“They had been called out to a structural fire. He was pulling the...
Jun 2 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has delivered a $2 million check targeted for the state’s general fund. The money, derived from fees paid by the surplus lines insurance industry, will go to the...
Jun 1 2009 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has asked a court to block renewed efforts to make public a settlement agreement between his office and insurer State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. that was part of their feud over...
Jun 1 2009 // A Claiborne County jury has ruled that three companies do not owe a Mississippi man anything for his claims he suffered from silicosis after using their products. Lawyers for 73-year-old Eugene Westrope of Hazlehurst asked...
May 28 2009 // A federal appeals court in New Orleans has upheld a judge’s ruling that dismissed an engineering firm from a lawsuit involving a Hurricane Katrina damage case. David and Marilyn Aikens, of Pass Christian, Miss.,...
May 26 2009 // Attorneys for Morgan Freeman have until July 6 to respond to a lawsuit filed by the woman who was with the actor the night of a car crash last August.Demaris Meyer has sued Freeman for negligence. The lawsuit against the...
May 22 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of the United Arab Emirates-based Gulf Reinsurance Limited with stable outlooks....
May 8 2009 // States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of gun death according to analysis by the Violence Policy Center of just-revealed 2006 national data (the most recent available) from the...
May 8 2009 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney is calling on legislative leaders to join him in his continuing effort to provide disability insurance coverage for volunteer firefighters in the...
May 4 2009 // Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. Photo: Michael Maples/U.S. Army Corps of EngineersLong awaited court proceedings pitting the Army Corps of Engineers against victims of flooding in New Orleans as a result of Hurricane...
May 1 2009 // Gulfport, Mississippi Mayor Brent Warr, the highest-ranking public official charged with Hurricane Katrina fraud, made numerous false statements about the living arrangements of his family and a beachfront home damaged by...
Apr 29 2009 // Officials from three states of the Gulf Coast are meeting this week to discuss preparations for hurricane season.The 2009 Gulf States Hurricane Conference is being held Wednesday through Friday at the Coast Coliseum and...
Apr 24 2009 // Mississippi has hired a wind engineering firm to assess the various steps that property owners might take to reduce damage from hurricanes.Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney and wind engineering firm AIR...