Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Canada’s Eagle Underwriting Teams Up with MS Amlin’s RaetsMarine
Mar 17 2017 // Canada’s Eagle Underwriting Group Inc. has teamed up with MS Amlin Marine NV, trading as RaetsMarine, to offer protection & indemnity (P&I) and charterers’ liability insurance in the Canadian marine...
Mississippi Gov. Nominates Rep. Formby to State Workers Comp Commission
Mar 17 2017 // Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is nominating a longtime Republican lawmaker to the three-member Workers Compensation Commission. Rep. Mark Formby of Picayune has served in the House since 1993 and helped push a 2012 law that...
Chubb Off the Hook for Legal Fees in Dispute With Mississippi Hospital System
Mar 15 2017 // Singing River Health System in Mississippi has lost its case in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals against an insurance company that has been paying the hospital system’s legal fees in the court battle against its...
Details Emerge on What Went Wrong in Tour Bus, Train Accident in Mississippi
Mar 14 2017 // The Texas tour bus hit by a freight train in a deadly crash in Mississippi wasn’t supposed to have taken the road where it got stuck at a rail crossing earlier this week, a federal official said Thursday. National...
MS Amlin Names XL Catlin’s Padilla as Senior U/W for Latin America
Mar 13 2017 // MS Amlin has appointed Frank Padilla as senior international casualty underwriter, specializing in Latin America. Latin America is a strategically important region for MS Amlin and this appointment underlines its...
House Balks at Senate Plan for Mississippi Oil Spill Damage Account
Mar 10 2017 // Mississippi lawmakers may be unable to decide this year how to spend $750 million in oil spill damage payments, with sniping between House and Senate members after a bill died at a Tuesday deadline for action when the...
Paid Claims from Mississippi Tornado Damage Top $31M, And Growing
Mar 6 2017 // Insurers have paid out more than $31.6 million on 2,801 claims from tornadoes that hit Mississippi in January. The Mississippi Insurance Department reported the figures through Feb. 3. Mississippi Insurance Commissioner...
Paid Claims from Mississippi Tornado Damage Top $31M, And Growing
Feb 27 2017 // Parts of mobile homes and other property lay strewn throughout a neighborhood Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, on Green loop Road in Lauderdale, Miss., after a tornado passed through the area late Saturday. (Paula Merritt/The...
Mississippi Mayor Wants City Workers Handling Money to Take Polygraphs
Feb 9 2017 // Vicksburg, Miss., Mayor George Flaggs Jr. says he wants all city workers who handle money to be required to take polygraph tests. Flaggs told The Vicksburg Post that “taxpayers need to know we’re not losing...
Mississippi Estimates More Than $1M in Timber Damaged by Tornado
Jan 31 2017 // More than $1 million worth of timber was destroyed by the tornado that hit Lamar, Forrest and Perry counties. The Mississippi Forestry Commission announced the estimate Friday based on aerial damage assessments. The...
Mississippi, Georgia Commissioners Call on Industry to Assist Residents Affected by Tornadoes
Jan 26 2017 // Insurance commissioners in Mississippi and Georgia, two of several Southeast states hit over the weekend by devestating tornadoes that damaged thousands of homes and caused millions of dollars in insured losses, are...
Mississippi Tornado Damaged At Least 1,100 Homes
Jan 25 2017 // A tornado that tore a 31-mile path across south Mississippi over the weekend killed four people and damaged or destroyed more than 1,100 homes, state officials said Monday, as the governor assured residents that federal...
Mississippi Tornado Kills 4, Causes At Least $200M in Insured Damage
Jan 23 2017 // Rain was pouring down in the pre-dawn darkness, and the wind was picking up as Darryl McMorris ran for his daughters’ bedroom. The windows started blowing out as he dove on top of his girls, grabbing one under each...
Round 2: Mississippi AG Picks New Fight With Google Over Student Privacy
Jan 19 2017 // Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general is once again tangling with Google, alleging in a lawsuit that the company is illegally violating student privacy, even as some Republicans seek to muzzle his ability to file...
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Urges Passage of Fire District Bill
Jan 18 2017 // A bill making its way through the Mississippi State Legislature that could change the way fire districts in the state are drawn is being praised by Mississippi’s insurance chief. House Bill 469 would amend Section...
Mississippi House Passes Bill to Enforce Mandatory Auto Insurance Requirement
Jan 17 2017 // House members are approving a bill that would require county tax collectors to check whether Mississippians have auto insurance before renewing their license tags. Representatives voted 82-33 Jan. 11 to approve House Bill...
Mississippi Fast Food Worker Accused of Serving Contaminated Food
Jan 17 2017 // Police in Columbus, Miss., have launched a criminal investigation into whether a fast-food worker intentionally served contaminated food. The Commercial Dispatch reports that a Tupelo resident who may have received...
Mississippi Gov Orders Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for State Workers
Jan 12 2017 // Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant announced Tuesday that by executive order, he’s requiring all state employees to take online training in sexual harassment awareness and prevention. “This should be a low-cost...
NWS Reports At Least 9 Tornadoes Hit 12 Mississippi Counties in 1 Day
Jan 6 2017 // The National Weather Service has counted at least nine tornadoes hitting Mississippi on Monday. Survey teams conclude storm damage was caused by twisters in Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson, Lamar,...
Mississippi Officials Worry About Future Opioid-Related Problems
Dec 30 2016 // Mississippi officials are worried that the state could end up with an opioid problem like other states that have battled with drug addiction. The Daily Journal reported that Gov. Phil Bryant issued an executive order...
