All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2022 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday it will spend almost $800 million to address flood mitigation, coastal storm damage protection and address supply chain resilience.About $221 million will address flooding...
Oct 3 2022 // Parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited at the worst possible time — as crop harvests begin.Some Mississippi River communities between St. Louis and New...
Sep 20 2022 // A woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $3 million in restitution for embezzling money from a Mississippi State University sorority.The Northeast Mississippi Daily...
Sep 19 2022 // Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate homeowners.The settlement says...
Sep 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SCOR and Aon Reinsurance Solutions.A summary of these new hires follows here. Former MS Amlin Exec Beazley Appointed CEO of SCOR UK, SCOR SyndicateSCOR...
Sep 12 2022 // MS Amlin AG announced it would rebrand this month to MS Reinsurance, which is a reflexion of parent company MS&AD’s commitment to building a leading, globally diversified reinsurer.The company said that MS...
Aug 31 2022 // In Mississippi’s capital, thousands of residents have no running water, after river flooding contributed to longstanding problems at the city’s water treatment facilities.Emergency officials on Tuesday were...
Aug 29 2022 // The rental home that Suzannah Thames owns in Mississippi’s capital city was filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water when the Pearl River overflowed its banks in 2020.On Friday, Thames pointed to a column on the...
Aug 29 2022 // Another national insurance company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it underpaid hundreds of auto insurance claims.A federal court in Mississippi this month signed off on a confidential settlement in a...
Aug 26 2022 // Heavy rain and flash flooding have prompted evacuations, rescue operations and closures across Mississippi.Rain has pummeled the central and southern parts of the state for the last three days. In statements posted to...
Aug 23 2022 // A Mississippi man, a former veteran of combat in Iraq, has pleaded guilty to faking his own death in order to disappear and avoid charges that he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl.Jacob Blair Scott was facing charges of...
Aug 1 2022 // Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi on Thursday said it was suing three employees of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for allegedly spreading false information.The lawsuit is the latest development in a...
Aug 1 2022 // Six workers suffered severe burns following a Friday morning explosion at a oil drilling storage tank in central Mississippi.The workers sustained burns on at least 50% of their bodies, with one being burned from head to...
Jul 19 2022 // Work has begun to renovate a northeast Mississippi federal courthouse long plagued by mold.WTVA-TV reports interior demolition began last week at the Thomas G. Abernethy Federal Building in Aberdeen. The U.S. General...
Jul 13 2022 // GCube Names Shimal, Litterick to Underwriting PostsRenewable energy specialist GCube Underwriting, a member of the Tokio Marine HCC group of companies, has appointed two people to senior positions within the organisation....
Jul 6 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at MS Amlin, DUAL Europe, and Gallagher Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. MS Amlin Names Liberty Mutual’s Baxter as Head of Reinsurance,...
Jun 21 2022 // The question for the Mississippi Supreme Court was whether the amount of damages due an injured employee for her attorney’s negligence should include the workers’ compensation benefits she missed out on.The...
Jun 13 2022 // Britain’s biggest pubs group Stonegate, which is suing Zurich Insurance and two peers for 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) over lockdown losses, battled the COVID-19 pandemic “day by day, venue by venue,”...
May 25 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL, Howden and MS Amlin.A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Names Benet Global Chief Underwriting Officer, Succeeding BewlayAXA XL has...
May 24 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance International and Dale Underwriting Partners.A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance Int’l Hires Chaucer’s...