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Mississippi Fire Deaths Totaled 80 in 2010
Jan 11 2011 // Fire deaths in Mississippi totaled 80 in 2010, according to the state fire marshal’s office. Chief Deputy Fire Marshal Ricky Davis tells The Clarion-Ledger that his office investigated 69 of the fatal blazes. Davis...
USAA Reworking Wind Coverage Accounts on Mississippi Coast
Jan 10 2011 // USAA, a banking and insurance company that caters to military personnel, is dropping wind coverage from its homeowners’ policies in Mississippi’s three coastal counties. The Sun Herald reported that about 1,550...
House Lets Stand Mississippi Gov. Barbour’s Veto of Windpool Funds
Jan 7 2011 // The Mississippi House has failed to override a governor’s veto of legislation that would have placed a $20 million subsidy into a state wind pool insurance fund. The vote was 68-52 in favor of an override, but at...
Feds Pursuing Fraud Charges Against Oil Spill Claimants in 5 States
Dec 21 2010 // A woman was indicted last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for compensation due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other individuals were also charged last week in...
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Dec 20 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh appointed Peter Mavraganis as U.S. leader of its renewable energy practice. Mavraganis, based in New York, will oversee Marsh’s support for its clients in renewable energy development,...
Mississippi Casino Workers’ BP Oil Claims Get Second Look
Dec 13 2010 // The agency in charge of paying Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims is requesting information from casinos that could lead to payments to hundreds of gambling employees previously denied damage claims, the head of an industry...
Mississippi State Football Game Victim of Cowbell Assault Sues
Dec 6 2010 // A man involved in an incident last year in which he was hit with a cowbell at a Mississippi State football game has sued his alleged attacker and the Southeastern Conference. Records in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court show...
Mississippi Court Rejects Bad Faith Katrina Damages
Dec 5 2010 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a breach-of-contract verdict in a dispute between an insurance company and a retired Navy admiral over coverage of damages from Hurricane Katrina. However, the high court said...
Drunk Driving Arrests Up, Fatalities Down in Mississippi
Nov 30 2010 // DUI arrests have skyrocketed in Mississippi in the past several years, helping lead to the lowest number of drunken driving deaths in decades. It’s welcome news for a state that has ranked among the nation’s...
Insurer Wants Ex-Judge Off Mississippi Lawyer Case
Nov 30 2010 // An insurance company wants former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz kicked off a lawsuit involving imprisoned former attorney Paul Minor. Minor, meanwhile, also thinks the federal judge in the case should step...
Mississippi Judge Asks Court to Restore His Immunity
Nov 30 2010 // A Mississippi judge is asking a federal appeals court to restore his immunity from being sued over claims that he knowingly making false claims to authorities. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled arguments for...
Mississippi Football Player’s Pink Cleats Lead to Lawsuit
Nov 12 2010 // Attorneys for a Mississippi high school football player have sued the player’s school district claiming the athlete was kicked off the team for wearing pink cleats to practice. Deputy Superintendent Tom Duncan told...
Museum Preserves History of Deadly Mississippi Nightclub Fire
Nov 11 2010 // For 70 years, remembrances of the 209 people killed in the fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez have been limited to a historical marker, a small annual ceremony and a few scattered newspaper clippings. Now, the...
Allstate to Fight Denial of Mississippi Rate Hike
Nov 10 2010 // Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Co. wants a public hearing on the Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney’s denial of its request for a 44 percent home insurance rate hike. The company also wants...
Mississippi Court Denies Bid for Katrina Claims Data
Nov 8 2010 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Long Beach man who wanted the state to release records that would show the dollar amount of Hurricane Katrina claims denied by insurance...
Family of Mississippi Inmate Who Died Sues Town, Private Prison Firm
Nov 5 2010 // The family of an inmate who died in prison is suing the town of Walnut Grove and a private corrections company, claiming Dennis Earl Holmes was denied adequate medical care before dying of what the plaintiffs believe was...
Casino’s Barge Not Liable for Mississippi Marina’s Damage During Katrina
Nov 1 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction. The state...
Mississippi Executive Wins $103 Million in Lawsuit Against Lawyer
Oct 28 2010 // A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business. Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit...
Mississippi Casino’s Barge Not Liable for Marina’s Damage During Katrina
Oct 15 2010 // The owners of a Biloxi marina damaged by a casino-owned barge that came loose during Hurricane Katrina are considering an appeal of a Mississippi court ruling that the casino is not liable for the destruction. Last week,...
Enforcement Issues Complicate Mississippi’s Efforts on Texting Drivers
Oct 13 2010 // Undoubtedly bills will be filed to strengthen Mississippi’s texting-while-driving ban during the 2011 legislative session, and questions about enforcement are sure to be raised. A law enacted in 2009 banned beginning...
