Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Federal Judge Rejects Allstate Request to Dismiss Miss. Hurricane Lawsuit
Mar 27 2006 // A federal judge in Gulfport, Miss. has refused to throw out a lawsuit that a couple filed against Allstate Insurance Co. after the insurer refused to cover damage to their home from Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit, filed by...
Miss. AG Claims Companies Using ‘Delay Tactics’
Mar 27 2006 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has issued a statement claiming that Allstate and State Farm are causing more delay in having the state’s Katrina-related lawsuit against them heard. Allstate and State Farm are...
Unrestrained Litigation Threatens Miss. Judicial System, Insurers Contend
Mar 27 2006 // While slow but steady progress is being made in improving Mississippi’s judicial climate, the good news is tempered by the threat to the state from unrestrained litigation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, according...
Miss. Governor Says Federal Funds to Help Pay Mounting Katrina Bills
Mar 27 2006 // Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour says $520 million in federal funds for Medicaid and other health care expenses means Mississippi should be able to pay its mounting Hurricane Katrina bills. U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said...
Miss. Lawsuit Alleges Engineer Altered Katrina Damage Report
Mar 22 2006 // An engineering company altered a report to eliminate the significant role wind played in severely damaging the home of an elderly Gulfport, Mississippi couple during Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, a lawsuit claims. The...
Miss. Dealt Setback in Bid to Link Vatican to Frankel Fraud
Mar 21 2006 // A federal appeals court in Jackson has tossed out one of the state of Mississippi’s theories that the Vatican was connected to the fraud scheme of financier Martin Frankel. State Insurance Commissioner George Dale...
Bailey Challenges Scruggs: ‘Put Up or Shut Up!’
Mar 20 2006 // Recent developments in the Mississippi wind vs. flood case and statements by attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs about having information from one or more whistleblowers are serious allegations and he should be...
Miss. AG Looking for ‘Good Insiders’
Mar 20 2006 // Attorney General Jim Hood has announced that his office is looking for a few more “good insiders” to help in the investigation of the insurance industry’s “fraudulent denial of claims on the...
Wind vs. flood Katrina lawsuit sent back to state court
Mar 20 2006 // The Mississippi lawsuit to force insurance companies to pay for damage caused by storm surge has been remanded back to the state’s Chancery Court of Hinds County. Since the state is seeking injunctive relief, the...
Scruggs: Whistleblower Helping in Hurricane Katrina Lawsuit
Mar 20 2006 // A high-profile litigator in Moss Point, Miss. said that a whistleblower is helping him build a case against insurers that allegedly denied thousands of claims from policyholders whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane...
Miss. suspends 180-day deadline on Katrina repairs
Mar 19 2006 // Commissioner of Insurance George Dale suspended the 180-day repair deadline provision in personal and commercial property replacement insurance policies as to Hurricane Katrina claims in Bulletin #2006-3 issued on Friday,...
Dale Reports Miss. Insurers Have Made Solid Progress
Mar 15 2006 // A report in Jackson, Miss. by Insurance Commissioner George Dale shows that six months after Hurricane Katrina struck a devastating blow to the Gulf Coast, major insurers have made solid progress and are committed to...
Miss. Wind vs. Flood Lawsuit Remanded Back to State Court
Mar 13 2006 // The Mississippi lawsuit to force insurance companies to honor their policies and pay for damage caused by storm surge has been remanded back to the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Since the state is seeking injunctive, the...
Max Mayfield gives wind conference ‘bad news’
Mar 6 2006 // There is no reason to think there will be any change in hurricane patterns in the near future; the number of hurricanes have been increasing since 1995 and there is no doubt that they will continue to do so for the next...
Miss. Suspends 180-Day Deadline on Katrina Repairs
Mar 1 2006 // Commissioner of Insurance George Dale has suspended the 180-day repair deadline provision in personal and commercial property replacement insurance policies as to Hurricane Katrina claims. Dale also suspended the 180-day...
Miss. Reports 71 Percent Mediation Success Rate
Mar 1 2006 // Efforts to mediate Mississippi homeowners claims have gone into high gear with initial efforts accounting for a 71 percent success rate, Donna J. Cromeans, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Insurance Department in...
Miss. Communities Have Until Feb. 28 to Collect Debris Roe Requests
Feb 21 2006 // Local governments in Mississippi requesting federal funding for debris removal on private property have until Feb. 28, 2006, to collect signed Right of Entry (ROE) requests from residential property owners. The date...
What does a ‘Valued Policy’ cover in Louisiana and Mississippi?
Feb 20 2006 // As is obvious from a perusal of newspaper articles and legal journals, the devastating damage throughout the entire Gulf Coast Region from the recent hurricane season has raised numerous legal issues regarding insurance...
What does a ‘Valued Policy’ cover in Louisiana and Mississippi?
Feb 19 2006 // In general, “Valued Policy” statutes require an insurer to ascertain the value of the property being insured at the time a policy is written and to pay that value to the insured when there is a total loss. As...
Miss. Hurricane Victims to Lose Subsidized Hotel Rooms
Feb 13 2006 // More than 1,200 families left homeless in Mississippi by Hurricane Katrina will lose their federally subsidized hotel rooms beginning Monday. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said Saturday that hotel...
