Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: MS Amlin’s Slabbert Named CEO of MSIG Holdings
Oct 11 2022 // U.S. insurer and reinsurer MSIG Holdings reported that Johan Slabbert has been named chief executive officer of the Warren, New Jersey-based company. Slabbert, currently CEO at MS Amlin Underwriting Limited, will assume...
Mississippi River Reopens to Barge Traffic After Low Water Closures
Oct 11 2022 // Two stretches of the southern Mississippi River were reopened to commercial traffic over the weekend after dredging operations deepened the shipping channel near Memphis, Tennessee, and near Stack Island, Mississippi, the...
U.S. Barge Backlog Swells on Parched Mississippi River
Oct 5 2022 // Commercial barge traffic on southern stretches of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Tuesday as low water levels halted shipments of grain, fertilizer and other commodities on the critical waterway, shipping...
Mississippi to Get $221M to Address Flood Risks
Oct 4 2022 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday it will spend almost $800 million to address flood mitigation, coastal storm damage protection and address supply chain resilience. About $221 million will address flooding...
Mississippi River Low Water Level Threatens Barge Traffic
Oct 3 2022 // Parts of the Mississippi River are so low from weeks of drought that barge traffic is being limited at the worst possible time — as crop harvests begin. Some Mississippi River communities between St. Louis and New...
Mississippi State Sorority Treasurer Sentenced in $4M Embezzlement
Sep 20 2022 // A woman has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $3 million in restitution for embezzling money from a Mississippi State University sorority. The Northeast Mississippi Daily...
State Farm Agrees to Settle Katrina Claims Lawsuit with Mississippi AG
Sep 19 2022 // Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate homeowners. The settlement says...
People Moves: MS Amlin’s Beazley Named CEO of SCOR UK, SCOR Syndicate; Aon Reinsurance Solutions Hires Goodman as UK President
Sep 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SCOR and Aon Reinsurance Solutions. A summary of these new hires follows here. Former MS Amlin Exec Beazley Appointed CEO of SCOR UK, SCOR Syndicate SCOR...
MS Amlin AG to Rebrand as ‘MS Reinsurance’
Sep 12 2022 // MS Amlin AG announced it would rebrand this month to MS Reinsurance, which is a reflexion of parent company MS&AD’s commitment to building a leading, globally diversified reinsurer. The company said that MS...
Mississippi Capital City Without Running Water After Floods Worsen Pump Problems
Aug 31 2022 // In Mississippi’s capital, thousands of residents have no running water, after river flooding contributed to longstanding problems at the city’s water treatment facilities. Emergency officials on Tuesday were...
Mississippi Capital Area Bracing for More Pearl River Flooding
Aug 29 2022 // The rental home that Suzannah Thames owns in Mississippi’s capital city was filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water when the Pearl River overflowed its banks in 2020. On Friday, Thames pointed to a column on...
USAA Settles Mississippi Class Action Over Underpaid Auto Claims
Aug 29 2022 // Another national insurance company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it underpaid hundreds of auto insurance claims. A federal court in Mississippi this month signed off on a confidential settlement in a...
Mississippi Cleaning Up After Heavy Rains, Flash Flooding
Aug 26 2022 // Heavy rain and flash flooding have prompted evacuations, rescue operations and closures across Mississippi. Rain has pummeled the central and southern parts of the state for the last three days. In statements posted to...
Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty to Faking His Death to Avoid Sex Charges
Aug 23 2022 // A Mississippi man, a former veteran of combat in Iraq, has pleaded guilty to faking his own death in order to disappear and avoid charges that he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl. Jacob Blair Scott was facing charges of...
Blue Cross Sues Mississippi Med Center Officials for Defamation
Aug 1 2022 // Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi on Thursday said it was suing three employees of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for allegedly spreading false information. The lawsuit is the latest development in...
Tank Explosion Severely Burns Six Workers in Mississippi
Aug 1 2022 // Six workers suffered severe burns following a Friday morning explosion at a oil drilling storage tank in central Mississippi. The workers sustained burns on at least 50% of their bodies, with one being burned from head to...
$24 Million Mold Remediation Starts on Federal Courthouse in Mississippi
Jul 19 2022 // Work has begun to renovate a northeast Mississippi federal courthouse long plagued by mold. WTVA-TV reports interior demolition began last week at the Thomas G. Abernethy Federal Building in Aberdeen. The U.S. General...
People Moves: GCube Names Two in Underwriting; MS Amlin Adds Barnes to Marine; RiverStone Names M&A Head, Underwriter
Jul 13 2022 // GCube Names Shimal, Litterick to Underwriting Posts Renewable energy specialist GCube Underwriting, a member of the Tokio Marine HCC group of companies, has appointed two people to senior positions within the organisation....
People Moves: MS Amlin Names Liberty Mutual’s Baxter as Head of Reinsurance; DUAL Hires HDI’s Biemann for Cyber; Gallagher Re Taps Swiss Re’s Kreutzer for Nordic Region
Jul 6 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at MS Amlin, DUAL Europe, and Gallagher Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. MS Amlin Names Liberty Mutual’s Baxter as Head of Reinsurance,...
Miss. Supreme Court Counts Unproven Comp Benefits in Legal Malpractice Claim
Jun 21 2022 // The question for the Mississippi Supreme Court was whether the amount of damages due an injured employee for her attorney’s negligence should include the workers’ compensation benefits she missed out on. The...
