All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2008 // High winds destroyed a home and a business in Mississippi’s Prentiss County March 14 and caused major damage to two other structures.A Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman said March 15 that it’s...
Mar 18 2008 // The Mississippi Senate sent Gov, Haley Barbour a bill last week to transfer $25 million into a fund that assists the state wind pool.The wind pool has about 36,000 policies. Most are held by homeowners in six south...
Mar 18 2008 // Katie South knew something wasn’t right.Her husband, Joe, has been dead for almost three years. The man charged with his death will go on trial Monday in Holly Springs after a judge this week declined to approve...
Mar 17 2008 // Mississippi attorney, Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, used a mix of bare-knuckle tactics and country-lawyer charm to extract billion-dollar settlements from cigarette makers, asbestos companies and other big...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 10 2008 // State Farm, FloridaFlorida’s largest private insurer, State Farm, has decided to cease writing new policies for homes. The move is not expected to affect most of the company’s 1 million current policyholders....
Mar 10 2008 // Halt Non-Renewals“These activities, we strongly believe, are prohibited by the Alabama Trade Practices Law. The law specifically says that inducements not specified in the policy are prohibited.” —Alabama...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 3 2008 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance, Mike Chaney, and the Mississippi Insurance Department will hold an informational public forum this week for the state’s coastal residents.Featured speakers from the...
Mar 3 2008 // A federal judge dismissed a criminal contempt charge against Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs last week, giving the prominent lawyer one less case to worry about as he fights a more serious bribery...
Mar 3 2008 // Freshman Sen. Michael Watson knows the sting of rising insurance costs on the hurricane-battered Mississippi Gulf Coast.Watson said after Hurricane Katrina struck more than two years ago, he lost his home’s wind...
Feb 29 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he would not have met with two men now entangled in a judicial bribery case had he known they were allegedly paid $500,000 to try to influence his investigation of an insurance...
Feb 28 2008 // A lawyer accused of trying to bribe a judge also paid two associates $500,000 to convince Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood not to file criminal charges against an insurance company over its handling of Hurricane...
Feb 28 2008 // Mississippi officials said Tuesday that homeowners with elevated structures who lived inside the federally designated flood zone when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 may still qualify for housing assistance.Jon Mabry,...
Feb 26 2008 // A Cleveland doctor gave up his immunity defense in a wrongful death case after spending five years of a Bolivar County trial court’s time with motions and discovery, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.The...
Feb 25 2008 // The Mississippi attorney general’s office says it plans to pay $1 million in settlement money that was pledged to charities nearly a year ago after a deal was struck with State Farm Fire and Casualty Cos.Boys and...
Feb 24 2008 // Republican Mike Chaney said he spent around $1 million to win the Mississippi insurance commissioner’s race in 2007.“It’s obscene to spend that much money on an election for a job that pays less than...
Feb 22 2008 // A federal judge on Wednesday in Mississippi declined to dismiss an indictment in a judicial bribery case against powerful attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and two others.Scruggs, his son Zach and law partner...
Feb 21 2008 // With the press of a button, a lawyer for the nation’s largest insurance company may have ended a brief truce in its bitter dispute with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.In an e-mail mistakenly sent to reporters...