Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi House, Senate Divided Over Workers’ Compensation Changes
Mar 16 2012 // The Mississippi Legislature is split on a bill that would make changes to the state’s workers’ compensation law. Opponents say it would tilt the scales against workers, but proponents say it would return...
Mississippi Counties Improve Fire Insurance Ratings
Mar 14 2012 // Mississippi’s Monticello and Lawrence County have achieved new fire insurance ratings. Officials told the Daily Leader that the city has new rating of six and the county has an eight. The ratings came from the...
Judge Denies Claim Mississippi DUI Law Is Unconstitutional
Mar 9 2012 // Harrison County Circuit Judge Larry Bourgeois has declined to throw out the indictment in a DUI death case and dismissed a defense attorney’s claim that the Mississippi law is unconstitutional. The ruling was sought...
Mississippi Trial to Begin in Frankel, Vatican Fraud Case
Mar 5 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Mississippi House Revisits Vetoed Auto Insurance Verification Bill
Mar 1 2012 // A proposal to set up online computer checks to make sure drivers have auto insurance is again moving forward in the Mississippi House. A similar measure was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Haley Barbour. According to 2009...
Mississippi County’s Funds for Flood Property Buybacks Remain Unspent
Feb 29 2012 // The state of Mississippi has asked Hancock County for $6 million in funds not spent on a “property acquisition” project. The project is a limited buy-out plan designated to reduce the repetitive losses of...
Trial Date Set for Insurance Fraud with Ties to Frankel, Vatican
Feb 27 2012 // More than a decade after it was filed, a federal judge in Mississippi has set a tentative trial date in a lawsuit stemming from scams run by a notorious financier who looted $200 million from insurance companies and...
Mississippi Moves to Enforce Flood Codes on Hunting-Fishing Camps
Feb 24 2012 // The Mississippi House has approved a bill to allow local governments to enforce federal floodplains codes at hunting and fishing camps and remain in the National Flood Insurance Program. The bill (House Bill 773) would...
Mississippi Bar Owners Say Security Guard Proposal Goes Too Far
Feb 22 2012 // Hattiesburg nightclub and bar owners say many smaller nightspots would be put out of business by a proposal to require on-site parking lots and at least three guards at every bar. The City Council has scheduled a public...
Trucker’s Widow Settles Mississippi Wrongful Death Claim with Insurer
Feb 22 2012 // A trucker’s widow has settled her 2011 wrongful death lawsuit with H&M International Transportation Inc.’s insurance company and a driver. Filed Feb. 8, the agreement with Rita Marie Bruce shows Brookwood...
U.S. Should Expect Another Above-Normal Tornado Season in 2012
Feb 21 2012 // The U.S. should expect an active severe weather season with above-normal tornadoes in 2012. That’s after a near-record number of tornadoes in 2011, according to forecasters at AccuWeather.com in State College,...
Mississippi Wind Pool Shops in London
Feb 20 2012 // Members of Mississippi’s wind pool board were in London last month to seek low reinsurance rates. The Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association is the insurer of last resort for coastal property owners. It...
Lawyers Appeal Mississippi Asbestos Fraud Verdict
Feb 14 2012 // Two Mississippi plaintiffs lawyers, including a former state lawmaker, have appealed a verdict that they committed fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. A federal jury in Mississippi decided in 2010 that the...
Mississippi College Appeals Workplace Retaliation Award
Feb 8 2012 // A federal appeals court has scheduled arguments on Hinds Community College’s appeal of a workplace retaliation case. In 2010, the school was ordered to pay a former professor $345,020 after a federal jury found she...
Flood Damage in 2011 May Make 2012 Worse Along Mississippi River
Feb 6 2012 // Damage from 2011’s record spring floods could leave many people along the Mississippi River in even more danger this year, the Army Corps of Engineers said. The Corps said it’s assessing the damage to levees,...
Damage from 2011 Floods Could Make 2012 Worse
Feb 6 2012 // Damage from last year’s record spring floods could leave many people along the Mississippi River in even more danger this year, the Army Corps of Engineers said. The Corp said it’s assessing the damage to...
Mississippi May Mandate Homeowner Insurance Discounts for Mitigation
Feb 5 2012 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said he is working with legislators on a bill that would require insurers to offer discounts to homeowners who have strengthened homes against wind damage. State officials...
Judge Certifies Investor Class Action Against Goldman Sachs
Feb 3 2012 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was ordered by a federal judge to face a securities class-action lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors about a 2006 offering of securities backed by risky mortgage loans from a now-defunct...
Conoco Phillips Appeals Mississippi Worker’s $15.2M Asbestos Award
Feb 1 2012 // A Jones County man waited too long to file a lawsuit over exposure his exposure to workplace asbestos, attorneys told the Mississippi Supreme Court this week. The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments from Conoco...
MIssissippi Wind Pool Goes Shopping for Reinsurance in London
Jan 31 2012 // Members of Mississippi’s wind pool board are in London this week to seek low reinsurance rates — a key factor in the cost of policyholders’ premiums. The Mississippi Press reported that they left Saturday and...
