Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi’s Columbus Earns Improved Fire Rating
Jun 20 2012 // A new ranking for the Columbus Fire Department could mean reduced insurance rates for home and business owners. The Commercial Dispatch reported that the Mississippi Rating Bureau has rated Columbus a “four,”...
Judge Dismisses FEMA from Kmart Lawsuit Over Flooding in Mississippi
Jun 18 2012 // A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant involving a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth, MIssissippi. The Daily Corinthian reported last week that U.S. District...
Database Cost Slows Mississippi Day Care Safety Program
Jun 14 2012 // While state changes may provide more subsidized child care in Mississippi, parents are on their own when it comes to investigating the safety of facilities. The state Department of Health monitors and tracks potential...
Mississippi Reservist Files Job Bias Claim Against Weather Channel TV
Jun 11 2012 // A former on-air forecaster for The Weather Channel is suing the network, claiming it illegally discriminated against her because of her military service. Nicole Mitchell, a meteorologist, says in the suit that her contract...
Mississippi Court Orders New Trial in Worker’s $15M Asbestos Award
Jun 11 2012 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in a workplace asbestos exposure case in which a Jones County man was awarded $15.2 million. However, the Supreme Court did not rule on the jury verdict. Instead, the...
Mississippi to Receive Nearly $1M in AIG Settlement
Jun 9 2012 // Mississippi’s insurance commissioner says the state will receive nearly $1 million as part of a national settlement over American International Group’s financial reporting for worker’s compensation...
OSHA Investigating 2 Fatal Blasts in 2 Weeks at Mississippi Plant
Jun 5 2012 // The mother of a man who died in an explosion at a Pascagoula, Mississippi fertilizer factory says her son never spoke of any safety problems at the plant. Twenty-year-old Jeremy Moore of Hurley died Friday — the second...
Fake Hurricane Helps Mississippi Responders Prepare for Real One
Jun 1 2012 // Hurricane Natasha was a fake storm, but Mississippi’s emergency responders treated it like it was the real thing. Natasha was a simulated Category 3 hurricane used Wednesday as part of a training exercise for the...
Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi Fraud Verdict Against Asbestos Lawyers
May 31 2012 // A federal appeals court panel has upheld a $420,000 verdict against two Mississippi lawyers accused by a railroad company of committing fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. McComb attorneys William Guy and...
Court Upholds Mississippi Man’s 37-Month Sentence for Insurance Fraud
May 25 2012 // A federal appeals court has upheld the 37-month sentence handed to a Mississippi man convicted of defrauding a Memphis insurance company. The Commercial Appeals reported that a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit...
Mississippi Curbs AG’s Control Over State’s Legal Business
May 24 2012 // Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a law limiting the attorney general’s control of the state’s legal business. The law, House Bill 211,which takes effect July 1, requires the attorney general to appoint...
Mississippi Catholic Groups Sue Over Birth Control Rule
May 23 2012 // Ten Catholic groups in Mississippi are suing the Obama administration over a mandate that most employers provide birth control coverage as part of health insurance plans. Roman Catholic groups across the nation filed 12...
Mississippi Pathologist Settles with Innocence Project Over Defamation Claim
May 22 2012 // A forensic pathologist who sued the Innocence Project for defamation has accepted a $100,000 judgment to end the suit. The Clarion-Ledger reported that the Innocence Project said it agreed to the judgment because its...
Mississippi Passes Workers’ Compensation Changes
May 21 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered different views of a bill they passed to change the compensation system for workers injured on the job. If Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signs the bill as is expected, it will become law July...
Court Sides with Mississippi Insurance Agent in Restaurant Case
May 21 2012 // The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the owners of a Bay St. Louis restaurant cannot collect more than $300,000 they claimed to be owed by a local insurance agent after their business washed away in...
Mississippi Court Nixes ‘Negligent’ Flood Policy Advice
May 21 2012 // An insurance company selling federal flood insurance has won a case against a Mississippi homeowner who claimed the insurer was negligent in not informing him that he was eligible to buy a preferred risk policy with more...
Court Tosses Workplace Retaliation Damages Suit Against Mississippi College
May 18 2012 // A federal appeals court has ruled for Hinds Community College in a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, a Mississippi federal judge ordered the school to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she had...
Judge: Mississippi Lawyer Owes Diet Drug Claimants $600K
May 10 2012 // A judge has ruled that a Jackson attorney owes two former clients a combined $600,000 from more than $4.5 million in attorney fees he received in a diet drug settlement case dating to the early 2000s. The Clarion-Ledger...
Mississippi Judge Declares Damages Cap Unconstitutional
May 7 2012 // A state judge in Mississippi’s Coahoma County has declared a legislatively imposed cap on non-economic damages unconstitutional. Circuit Judge Charles Webster issued the ruling April 20 in a 14-page opinion. He...
Lawmakers OK Limits on Mississippi AG’s Deals with Private Law Firms
May 4 2012 // A measure to limit Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood’s ability to control state legal business is on the way to Republican Gov. Phil Bryant. The Mississippi Senate voted 34-18 Wednesday to pass House Bill 211,...
