All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2008 // A motions hearing took place this week in the highest profile judicial bribery trial in Mississippi in years.Famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, his son Zach, and an associate are accused of...
Feb 21 2008 // In a move he sees as another sign of a stabilizing insurance market, Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney announced Wednesday that Aegis Security Insurance Co., will resume writing new manufactured housing and...
Feb 15 2008 // Tired firefighters worked Wednesday to eliminate hot spots after portions of the sprawling American Furniture Manufacturing plant in Mississippi’s Pontotoc County were destroyed by a major blaze.The 1.2...
Feb 11 2008 // Attorneys for Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal contempt charges that he ignored a court order to turn over documents about insurance claims after Hurricane...
Feb 10 2008 // In an effort to make the Mississippi Insurance Department more accessible to the state’s coastal residents, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney opened the department’s new office in Gulfport,...
Feb 10 2008 // A Mississippi couple whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage to their home ended with a jury verdict that favored the insurance company said they have no plans to file an appeal in the case.An eight-member jury ordered...
Feb 8 2008 // Gov. Haley Barbour declared a State of Emergency Wednesday following the tornadoes and severe weather that struck parts of North Mississippi, including Alcorn, DeSoto, and Lafayette Counties.Barbour is requesting...
Feb 8 2008 // An insurance company is suing the Bay St. Louis-Waveland, Miss., School District over wind versus water damage related to Hurricane Katrina.Cathedral Capital Limited has asked a federal judge to determine what is its...
Feb 6 2008 // Tupelo, Miss.-based BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, said Monday it has signed a deal to buy JMG/IC Insurance Agency Inc., of Nacogdoches, Texas.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Feb 1 2008 // Plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, facing corruption and contempt charges in unrelated cases, will invoke the Fifth Amendment if forced to testify in a federal lawsuit involving Mississippi’s...
Jan 31 2008 // A Mississippi homeowner whose lawsuit over Hurricane Katrina damage ended with a jury verdict that favored his insurance company said Tuesday he has no plans to file an appeal in the case.On Monday, an eight-member jury...
Jan 31 2008 // High winds buffeted Mississippi as a storm system passed through Tuesday, injuring a Jones County resident and causing damage and power outages statewide.The extent of the Jones County victims’ injuries was unclear...
Jan 30 2008 // A federal judge refused to let Mississippi jurors consider punitive damages against an insurance company after they handed down a verdict Monday that favored the insurer in a dispute with policyholders over Hurricane...
Jan 30 2008 // The state’s new insurance commissioner says Mississippi Gulf Coast residents can expect an insurance rate increase this year.Commissioner Mike Chaney spoke Monday at the opening of the Insurance Department’s...
Jan 29 2008 // In an effort to make the Mississippi Insurance Department more accessible to the state’s coastal residents, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney opened the department’s new office in Gulfport,...
Jan 28 2008 // Mississippi health officials hoped to come with a plan last week to restore ambulance service in 23 counties left hanging when Alabama-based Emergystat shut down.Emergystat, based in Vernon, Ala., notified Mississippi...
Jan 28 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood must testify in a lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that accuses him of violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of...
Jan 25 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says his office opened a new criminal investigation of State Farm Insurance Cos. that is separate from its earlier probe of the insurer’s “crimes against...
Jan 25 2008 // Twenty-three Mississippi counties are without regular ambulance service after the only company that provided them coverage went out of business at midnight Thursday.The state Department of Health said Emergystat went out...
Jan 21 2008 // A Mississippi judge says he disqualified himself from hearing several lawsuits because federal authorities were investigating allegations that powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs tried to...