Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi Challenge to Health Insurance Mandate Dismissed
Sep 18 2012 // Gov. Phil Bryant and other Mississippi residents were premature in their challenge to the federal law requiring people to buy health care insurance, a federal judge has ruled. District Judge Keith Starrett also knocked the...
Mississippi Trial Set for Kmart Complaint Against FEMA Flood Mapping
Sep 17 2012 // A federal judge has set a trial date in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth. The Daily Corinthian reported that the trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Glen H. Davidson. In...
Mississippi Workers’ Comp Drug Testing, Benefits Changes Go Into Effect
Sep 17 2012 // Insurers and employers in Mississippi now have greater latitude to conduct alcohol and drug tests on employees following a workplace accident and reduce benefits for workers with pre-existing conditions. Those changes are...
Mississippi Court to Hear Case on Pre-Need Funeral Policy Transfers
Sep 14 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court was to hear arguments this week in a lawsuit filed over the portability of pre-need funeral policies. At issue is whether under Mississippi law such a policy, contracted with one funeral home,...
Mississippi Court Rules Wal-Mart Not Liable in Gun Ammo Sale to Underage Shooter
Sep 10 2012 // If a store sells ammunition to an underage person who uses the bullets to kill someone, is the retailer responsible? Not necessarily, according to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court ruled 5-4 this week in favor of...
Mississippi High Court Declines to Rule on State’s Cap on Non-Economic Damages
Sep 10 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court says it does not have enough information to decide whether the state’s limit on non-economic damages — as applied to a federal lawsuit — is constitutional. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
Wind Claims from Hurricane Isaac Only Part of the Story
Sep 10 2012 // Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in far Southeast Louisiana on Aug. 28, could climb to $1.2 billion, according to one catastrophe modeling firm. AIR Worldwide estimated losses at $1.2 billion, but...
People – Southeast
Sep 10 2012 // Dr. Therese M. Vaughan announced she will step down as chief executive officer of the organization of state insurance regulators, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), during the first quarter of...
Katrina’s Lessons in Mississippi May Have Saved Lives in Hurricane Isaac
Sep 5 2012 // For all the lives it took when it plowed across the Gulf Coast in 2005, Hurricane Katrina may have saved some during Isaac. Officials took lessons from Katrina and applied them to their emergency plans. Storm shelters that...
Mississippi High Court OKs New Trial in Asbestos Case
Sep 5 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has let stand an order for a new trial in a workplace asbestos exposure case in which a Jones County man was awarded $15.2 million. The court denied a request from Troy Lofton to reconsider...
Days After Isaac, Flooding and Outages Remain
Sep 3 2012 // Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater on Sept. 2 and more than 200,000 people across Louisiana still didn’t have any power, five days after Isaac ravaged the state....
Insurers Processing Estimated $1.2 Billion in Hurricane Isaac Claims
Sep 3 2012 // Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac have starting coming in, with one estimate saying losses to insurers could total $1.2 billion. AIR Worldwide, which models losses for insurers, said its best estimate of losses was...
Thousands Evacuated as Isaac Floods Outside New Orleans
Aug 31 2012 // Isaac continued to pour unrelenting rain on Aug. 30, flooding areas north and south of New Orleans even as the city’s fortified defenses held and forcing officials to launch speedy evacuation and rescue efforts in...
Isaac Brings Heavy Rain, Strong Winds to Mississippi
Aug 31 2012 // A tow truck driver was killed Thursday morning in Pearl River County when a tree fell on his truck, the first death in Mississippi from Isaac. The death of the unidentified driver on a Picayune, Miss., street came during...
Isaac Brings Relief to U.S. Drought Conditions
Aug 31 2012 // The remnants of Hurricane Isaac continue to cause headaches on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the lower Mississippi Valley as Gulf Coast residents get ready to start their cleanup...
Isaac Heads North After Drenching U.S. Gulf, New Orleans
Aug 30 2012 // Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing significant damage to the U.S. Gulf Coast but nothing on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in...
Mississippi Urges Homeowners to Protect Property Before Evacuating
Aug 29 2012 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney issued a statement urging coastal homeowners to take steps to protect their homes until the danger of Hurricane Isaac has passed.A satellite image of Isaac approaching...
Hurricane Isaac Hits Fortified New Orleans on Katrina’s Anniversary
Aug 29 2012 // Hurricane Isaac lashed southern Louisiana with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday and was set for a late-morning arrival in New Orleans, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. Isaac is the...
Isaac Now a Hurricane: Update
Aug 28 2012 // The National Hurricane Center says the center of what is now Hurricane Isaac may make landfall on the southeast Louisiana coastline as early as this evening. Not all forecasters share that timeline, however. Dr. Tim...
Louisiana Gears Up for Isaac
Aug 28 2012 // As Tropical Storm Isaac moved steadily toward Louisiana, residents geared up Monday for what has become an almost familiar Labor Day week event. On Sunday, Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency, and officials in...
