All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2007 // An engineering firm that helped adjust insurance claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina is seeking to block an employee’s computer hard drive from being turned over to a federal grand jury in...
Oct 24 2007 // A Jackson, Miss. woman faces insurance fraud charges, Attorney General Jim Hood’s office announced Monday.A news release from Hood’s office said Dianne Smith, 39, was arrested Friday. She was booked into the...
Oct 19 2007 // Two congressional leaders on Wednesday asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject a Mississippi plan to divert $600 million in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to an expansion project for the State...
Oct 17 2007 // State Farm Mutual Insurance, the largest writer of automobile coverage in Mississippi, will lower its rate on Nov. 12, while Allstate’s rates will go up.State Farm will drop its rates an average of 3.6 percent. The...
Oct 15 2007 // A group of young Iraqi leaders toured South Mississippi last week to learn how the area is rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation.The group of five dignitaries and two translators from the Kurdish region of...
Oct 12 2007 // The federal government is considering buying out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi coast and remaking the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone, raising anxieties that it could destroy the waterfront lives...
Oct 10 2007 // Police charged a man with driving under the influence after he allegedly crashed a Nissan Pathfinder into a Gulfport, Miss., building on U.S. 49, destroying a hair salon that just opened. Gulfport police said no one was...
Oct 8 2007 // The two men running for Mississippi insurance commissioner say encouraging competition is the key to reducing consumer’ costs as the state continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina.But that’s about where...
Oct 8 2007 // Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs has asked a federal judge to throw out a charge accusing him of criminal contempt in a dispute related to insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina.In court papers, attorneys for...
Oct 8 2007 // Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs has asked a federal judge to throw out a charge accusing him of criminal contempt in a dispute related to insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina.In court papers, attorneys for...
Oct 8 2007 // The two men running for Mississippi insurance commissioner say encouraging competition is the key to reducing consumer’ costs as the state continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina.But that’s about where...
Oct 1 2007 // A federal trial over Hurricane Katrina damage ended abruptly with a settlement between the insurance company and the Mississippi couple whose property damage, a jury decided, had been caused by the storm’s wind and...
Sep 30 2007 // Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs has asked a federal judge to throw out a charge accusing him of criminal contempt in a dispute related to insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina.In court papers made public last...
Sep 24 2007 // A federal appeals court sided with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on Aug. 30 in a key case related to hundreds of lawsuits over damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled...
Sep 24 2007 // The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jackson, Miss., will hear arguments Oct. 1 about whether the Mississippi Legislature unconstitutionally raided an insurance fund in 2004 to balance the state budget.The Mississippi...
Sep 24 2007 // Whatever the final outcome, this year’s race for Mississippi insurance commissioner will result in a new face in office after an unprecedented 32-year run by current officeholder, George Dale.In the primary elections...
Sep 24 2007 // Whatever the final outcome, this year’s race for Mississippi insurance commissioner will result in a new face in office after an unprecedented 32-year run by current officeholder, George Dale.In the primary elections...
Sep 24 2007 // Court to hear suit on state’s use of Miss. surplus lines fundsThe 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jackson, Miss., will hear arguments Oct. 1 about whether the Mississippi Legislature unconstitutionally raided an...
Sep 24 2007 // The company said the policy’s anti-concurrent causation provision means that if a policyholder has wind coverage but not flood insurance, then the company is not responsible for damage from a combination of wind and...
Sep 24 2007 // The Republic GroupThe Republic Group, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced its entry into the personal and commercial lines insurance markets in Mississippi. The companies will distribute homeowners, dwelling fire,...