All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2007 // Nationwide to readjust 500 Miss. Katrina claimsNationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance...
May 7 2007 // Concrete houses sprouting up in southern Alabama, Mississippi and elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region are more than just fortified structures that will protect their owners from up to 250 mph winds and 36 foot storm surges...
May 7 2007 // Mississippi insurance regulators have approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate homeowner policyholders, the Northbrook, Ill.-based insurer reported.The company, in a written statement, attributed the...
May 4 2007 // The Mississippi Elections Commission said this week that Insurance Commissioner George Dale should not be allowed to seek office this year as an independent.“The only relief Dale is entitled to would be placement on...
May 3 2007 // Plaintiff attorneys at the Scruggs Katrina Group, headed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, said they have brokered an out-of-court settlement for 34 Met Life Property & Casualty policyholders in Mississippi...
May 2 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale has approved rate changes for homeowners policies written by Shelter Insurance Co. and commercial policies written by Brierfield Insurance Co.The highest increase in some...
Apr 30 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood didn’t wait long to take on the insurance industry for denying the claims of thousands of policyholders after Hurricane Katrina.Less than a month after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm...
Apr 30 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale has asked a judge to let him run for re-election as an independent.Attorneys for the state are questioning whether the judge appointed to hear the candidacy challenge has the...
Apr 23 2007 // 7,512The number of speeding citations issued in one weekend by North Carolina state and local police during Operation Slow Down/No Need 2 Speed highway safety campaign. The campaign cited 5,254 motorists for speeding and...
Apr 23 2007 // State Farm begins promised review of Miss. Katrina claimsThe State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it...
Apr 20 2007 // Homeowners on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast face another insurance rate hike in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.Mississippi insurance regulators this week approved a statewide rate increase of 29 percent for Allstate...
Apr 20 2007 // A judge has scheduled arguments for April 27 in a court challenge filed by Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale against the Mississippi Democratic Party’s decision to keep him off the Aug. 7 ballot.Circuit...
Apr 20 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said.The so-called...
Apr 18 2007 // A federal judge said this week that his “door is open” to a mass settlement of disputed insurance claims in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, but he won’t endorse a proposed class-action settlement of...
Apr 16 2007 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a $1.5 million judgment against Canadian National/Illinois Central railroad in a favor of a worker injured in 2000 at the Jackson train yard.In the closely decided case, three...
Apr 13 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. announced the details of how Mississippi policyholders can have their Katrina wind damage claims reevaluated under the agreement it reached last month with Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George...
Apr 12 2007 // A new Mississippi insurance wind pool board on Tuesday approved a 142 percent increase for commercial premiums, a rate that’s significantly lower than it could have been because of $30 million from the federal...
Apr 10 2007 // Renee McDaniel is not unlike many residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Her home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, her family is packed into a government-issue trailer and her insurer paid just enough to replace the...
Apr 6 2007 // Thirty-eight more Hurricane Katrina insurance cases of Mississippi residents have been settled during court-order mediation, says U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr.More mediations will begin in May, according to...
Apr 4 2007 // Attorneys for plaintiffs wanting to keep non-Democrats from voting in Democratic Party primaries have asked a federal judge to let a trial go on, as scheduled.There is disagreement within the Democratic Party about the...