All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 8 2007 // In the Mississippi primary elections Tuesday, an eight-term veteran Democratic insurance commissioner running on the Independent ticket was edged out by a Democratic opponent, while the Republican contest was a runaway for...
Aug 7 2007 // Two years later, the “overwhelming majority of claims” in Gulf Coast states from Hurricane Katrina have been settled in what has been the single largest loss — $40.6 billion — in the history of the...
Aug 7 2007 // A federal appeals court is poised to review a judge’s verdict last year in the first trial among hundreds of lawsuits that Mississippi homeowners filed against insurance companies in Hurricane Katrina’s...
Aug 6 2007 // Hurricane Katrina has nearly knocked the wind out of George Dale’s re-election campaign for Mississippi insurance commissioner, a job he’s held for 32 years.Dale is the longest-serving state insurance...
Aug 6 2007 // Michael McAndrews would like to know what business Allstate has telling him he must buy wind and hail coverage — or else. McAndrews received a letter July 12 that said Allstate will not renew his homeowner’s...
Aug 6 2007 // Michael McAndrews would like to know what business Allstate has telling him he must buy wind and hail coverage — or else. McAndrews received a letter July 12 that said Allstate will not renew his homeowner’s...
Aug 6 2007 // In Miss. primary, incumbent Dale faces Katrina, Scruggs and fellow DemsHurricane Katrina has nearly knocked the wind out of George Dale’s reelection campaign for Mississippi insurance commissioner, a job he’s...
Aug 6 2007 // Michael McAndrews would like to know what business Allstate has telling him he must buy wind and hail coverage — or else. McAndrews received a letter July 12 that said Allstate will not renew his homeowner’s...
Aug 3 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says voters should question attorney Richard Scruggs’ motive for giving $250,000 to a political action committee created to target Dale’s re-election...
Aug 3 2007 // The Mississippi AFL-CIO on Wednesday endorsed Gary Anderson as the Democratic candidate for state insurance commissioner.Brenda Scott, a spokeswoman for the labor union and director of the Mississippi Alliance of State...
Jul 30 2007 // A Mississippi insurance agent accused in a kickback scheme with a former Lafayette County supervisor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy under a plea deal in U.S. District Court.Ken Nowlin, of Ecru, avoids a federal trial...
Jul 30 2007 // A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute.In an order made public July...
Jul 26 2007 // Michael McAndrews would like to know what business Allstate has telling him he must buy wind and hail coverage — or else. McAndrews received a letter July 12 that said Allstate will not renew his homeowner’s...
Jul 24 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Jul 24 2007 // State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. has settled another lawsuit with a policyholder whose home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.Neither side would release terms of the agreement reached Friday between the insurer and...
Jul 23 2007 // Federal agencies will test air quality in trailers housing Gulf Coast hurricane victims, an official said July 20, a day after documents revealed that government lawyers discouraged investigating reports of high...
Jul 23 2007 // DeclarationsTandem response “It makes no sense for us not to plan all of our responses in tandem.”— Alabama Gov. Bob Riley as he and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour vowed to cooperate in the event of a...
Jul 20 2007 // Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must...
Jul 19 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has settled 10 lawsuits filed by Mississippi homeowners in a dispute over damage from Hurricane Katrina.The settlement was announced Monday by Biloxi attorney Jack Denton. Two weeks ago,...
Jul 17 2007 // The barrier islands off the Mississippi coast offer pristine beaches to sun-loving tourists, a unique ecosystem to sea life and protection to the mainland from deadly storm surges during hurricanes.That’s why experts...