Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Farm to Sell Renters Insurance in Mississippi, But Not Homeowners
Jan 30 2009 // State Farm says it will resume selling renters insurance in parts of Mississippi away from the Gulf Coast. Company spokesman David Majors said that State Farm will still not selling new homeowners policies anywhere in the...
Commissioner Reassures: Mississippi’s No Florida in Its Insurance Markets
Jan 28 2009 // Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney moved to quickly to reassure state leaders and policyholders that no big insurance companies are leaving Mississippi. Chaney issued a statement after the announcement by State Farm...
Mississippi Grants to Help Homeowners Meet Flood Standard Reach $60M
Jan 28 2009 // The Mississippi Development Authority says federal grants to help coast homeowners meet new post-Katrina flood standards are nearing $60 million. MDA’s Elevation Grant Program is scheduled to complete all applicant...
Drunk Driver Victims Urge Mississippi to Expand Use of Ignition Locks
Jan 26 2009 // Nearly 21 years after a drunken driver plowed into her family’s Honda Civic and killed her parents and sister, Jennifer Sholar said certain sights and sounds still give her vivid flashbacks of the...
Mississippi Scruggs-Katrina Suits Quietly Settled
Jan 25 2009 // Dozens of Hurricane Katrina-related lawsuits filed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for policyholders against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. have been settled. Terms of the settlements are confidential. Officials...
Mississippi Hospitals Receive Funds from Insolvent HMO
Jan 20 2009 // Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney has delivered two checks totaling over half a million dollars to two Gulf Coast hospitals. The funds, delivered to the chief executive officers of Singing River Hospital...
Mississippi Grants $1 Million for Wind Mitigation Study
Jan 16 2009 // The Mississippi Insurance Department’s wind mitigation program has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Mississippi Development Authority and Governor Haley Barbour’s office. Insurance Commissioner Mike...
Mississippi Firm Fined for Trench Collapse That Killed 3 Workers
Jan 15 2009 // A Mississippi company cited for safety violations in the death of three workers when a trench collapsed in March has agreed to pay a $39,500 fine. American Air Specialists Inc. of Hattiesburg was cited by the federal...
Mississippi Katrina Suits Filed by Scruggs Against State Farm Settled
Jan 15 2009 // Dozens of Hurricane Katrina-related lawsuits filed by Richard “Dickie” Scruggs for policyholders against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. have been settled. Terms of the settlements are confidential. Officials...
Florida’s FCCI Now Owns 100% of Mississippi’s Brierfield Insurance Co.
Jan 8 2009 // FCCI Insurance Group (FCCI), a Sarasota, Florida-based commercial property and casualty insurer writing in excess of $500 million written premium in 14 states, has purchased Mississippi Insurance Managers. The transaction...
Mississippi Police Station Closed Due to Lapsed Workers’ Compensation Policy
Dec 31 2008 // The Port Gibson, Mississippi Police Department was open Monday, three days after a payment lapse on an insurance policy forced its closure. Mayor Fred Reeves said the workers’ compensation insurance policy for Port...
Former Mississippi Commissioner Featured at Texas Agents Event
Dec 23 2008 // The nation’s longest serving insurance commissioner, former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale, will share his unique post-Katrina insights on the regulatory challenges in the aftermath of large-scale...
Mississippi Approves Alfa Auto Insurance Rate Decrease
Dec 18 2008 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Alfa Insurance customers are about to pay less for their automobile coverage. Chaney has approved Alfa’s plan to decrease auto rates by as much as 2.1 percent,...
Leniency Asked for Mississippi Lawyer Caught in Scruggs Conspiracy
Dec 12 2008 // Mississippi U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, doctors, Prentiss County officials and hundreds of others have written letters asking a federal court to have mercy on their friend and colleague, former Booneville attorney Joey...
Mississippi Katrina Suit Challenges Funds for Port Instead of Homes
Dec 12 2008 // Housing advocates and low-income residents sued this week to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The Mississippi...
Several Mississippi Counties Hit by Tornadoes
Dec 11 2008 // The National Weather Service says several possible tornadoes were reported in several counties late Tuesday night, damaging homes and knocking down trees and power lines. However, no injuries have been reported. Forecaster...
FEMA to Close Last Katrina Mobile Home Site in Mississippi
Dec 10 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the last of its group mobile home sites placed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina will soon close. Recently, two of the three remaining FEMA-built group sites...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Chaney Reports Progress in Rebuilding Markets
Dec 3 2008 // One year after he was elected, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says his state has made progress in rebuilding its insurance markets that were ruined by the 2005 hurricanes. Mississippi has done this by...
Madrid Zone Earthquake Study a Wake-Up Call for Tennessee, Other States
Nov 30 2008 // A new federal study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone predicts Tennessee would see the highest level of damage if there is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The study notes that the total economic impact of a series of NMSZ...
Study: Barges Source of Volatile Organic Compounds in Miss. River
Nov 25 2008 // Preliminary results of a new study by a Louisiana state agency show Mississippi River barges could be a major source of ozone-causing volatile organic compounds. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality recently...
