All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2007 // Endurance Specialty, ARMTechEndurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, reported that one of its U.S. based holding companies is buying out ARMtech...
Sep 19 2007 // With the Mississippi Development Authority’s recent request for proposals for the long term workforce housing program, Gov. Haley Barbour’s comprehensive recovery strategy continues to assist housing needs on...
Sep 19 2007 // The two men running for Mississippi insurance commissioner say encouraging competition is the key to reducing rate payers’ costs as the state continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina.But that’s about where...
Sep 19 2007 // State Farm Insurance Cos. has settled with 103 policyholders in Mississippi who challenged the company’s refusal to cover damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the homeowners said Monday.Terms of...
Sep 18 2007 // A massive natural gas explosion in Philadelphia, Miss., leveled a medical clinic, injured nine people and shattered windows at a nearby hospital, authorities and witnesses said. No fatalities were reported.The medical...
Sep 14 2007 // In a step seen to indicate further stabilization of the Mississippi insurance market, Commissioner of Insurance George Dale announced that he has approved two rate filing reduction requests filed by Mississippi Farm Bureau...
Sep 13 2007 // Republican nominee for Mississippi insurance commissioner, Sen. Mike Chaney, R-Vicksburg, formally endorsed U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor’s, R-Miss., Multiple Peril Insurance Act (H.R.920).The MPIA would allow property...
Sep 12 2007 // Despite cleanup efforts, some Jackson County, Miss., homes still have mold festering behind walls and under leaky windows two years after Hurricane Katrina.“It’s growing. It’s in the vents and the walls....
Sep 10 2007 // Two south Mississippi men will be sentenced in December for making false claims for Hurricane Katrina relief, officials said.Danny Gene Hale will be sentenced Dec. 4 on six counts of fraud. Hale was convicted on Sept. 5 in...
Sep 6 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a...
Sep 6 2007 // Whenever truck driver Cameron White exits U.S. 78 onto McCullough Boulevard in Tupelo, Miss., he feels fear in the pit of his stomach.White said the intersection is one of the most dangerous in the area. He holds his...
Sep 5 2007 // The Republic Group (Republic), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced entry of its insurance companies into the personal and commercial lines insurance markets in Mississippi.The companies will distribute homeowners,...
Sep 5 2007 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Mississippi-based BancorpSouth Bank, announced it reached an agreement to acquire Insurance Network of Jonesboro, Ark., effective Sept. 1, 2007.Insurance Network will...
Sep 4 2007 // A federal appeals court sided with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. last Thursday in a key Mississippi case related to hundreds of lawsuits over damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Sep 4 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...
Aug 30 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina decimated the homes of thousands of Gulf Coast residents insurance companies are still systematically denying policyholders fair and just claims payments following this and other natural...
Aug 22 2007 // Hoping to get a clearer picture of who’s benefiting from Mississippi’s post-Hurricane Katrina housing grants, a coalition of advocacy groups has filed public records requests with the agency administering the...
Aug 20 2007 // $40.6 billion paid on 1.7 million insurance claimsTwo years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been the...
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from her destruction have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion —...
Aug 13 2007 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $72,775 in penalties against 16 companies involved in the construction of a SeverCorr steel plant near Columbus,...