Latest Mississippi Headlines
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Mississippi Asks Companies to Re-bid on Katrina Cottages Program
Nov 19 2007 // The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has asked companies to re-submit bids to oversee the Hurricane Katrina cottages pilot program. MEMA said it decided not to extend its $8.9 million contract with Florida-based...
Republican Chaney Elected Miss. Commissioner
Nov 18 2007 // Newly elected Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says he will work to reduce insurance rates but realizes that it can only be accomplished by employing the right combination of factors. “Competition and...
Miss. AG Hood Denies he Threatened to Indict State Farm CEO
Nov 18 2007 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood threatened to indict the chairman of State Farm Insurance Companies if the insurer didn’t settle lawsuits over thousands of Hurricane Katrina claims, according to the testimony...
Miss. Development Authority Gets Money for pre-Katrina Homeowners
Nov 15 2007 // The state of Mississippi has cleared the way for at least 186 homeowners to receive partial grants to help rebuild even though they were previously denied federal aid. The Mississippi Development Authority announced the...
N.C. Engineering Firm to be Dropped from Miss. Katrina Insurance Suits
Nov 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Forensic Analysis and Engineering Corp., has reached a settlement with lawyers who have filed hundreds of lawsuits against State Farm Insurance Cos. on behalf of policyholders whose claims were denied...
State Farm: Restraining Order Continued Against Miss. AG
Nov 9 2007 // A federal judge has extended a restraining order that prevents Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood from continuing a criminal investigation into State Farm Insurance Cos.’ handling of Hurricane Katrina claims, a...
Chaney: New Miss. Insurance Commissioner; A.G. Only Dem to Win
Nov 8 2007 // Republican Mike Chaney of Vicksburg defeated Democrat Gary Anderson in the insurance commissioner’s race. Anderson’s campaign lost momentum after his Democratic primary win over longtime Insurance Commissioner...
Barbour Wins Second Term as Mississippi Governor
Nov 8 2007 // Mssissippi’s Republican governor, Haley Barbour, won a second term Tuesday in a state still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, a storm that washed away some political futures. The Democratic nominee for governor,...
Contractor Arrested on Katrina Fraud Charge in Miss.
Nov 8 2007 // A Massachusetts contractor has been arrested on a felony fraud charge related to Hurricane Katrina recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Daryle Arthur Jager, 47, of Somerville, Mass., is accused of taking $7,000 from a...
Unofficial Results Show Chaney as Miss. Insurance Commisssioner
Nov 7 2007 // While Mississippi precincts offficially have 10 days to report election results, unofficial counts show Republican Mike Chaney at approximately 57 percent over Democrat Gary Anderson’s 43 percent in the contest for...
U.S. Circuit Court Sides with State Farm in Miss. Katrina Case
Nov 7 2007 // A U.S. court of appeals ruling dashed the hopes of potentially hundreds of post-Hurricane Katrina claimants Tuesday when it ruled a major insurer’s policy language unambiguous. The case is based on State Farm Fire...
State Farm Sues Mississippi Attorney General over Criminal Probe
Nov 5 2007 // State Farm Insurance Cos. is suing Mississippi’s attorney general for allegedly violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer’s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane...
Court to Hear State Farm Appeal of $2.7 Million Miss. Katrina Award
Nov 2 2007 // A federal appeals court has scheduled arguments in State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.’s quest to overturn a $2.7 million judgment in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The arguments...
Miss. Town Moves to Slow Demand for Katrina Cottages
Oct 30 2007 // Members of political boards have their disagreements. But if a majority of Bay St. Louis, Miss., City Council members agree on one thing, it’s their intense dislike for Katrina cottages. Since the small, modular...
Off-year election 2007 could provide glimpse into 2008
Oct 27 2007 // This fall is an off-year election season with only a handful of federal races and most state houses gearing up for contests in 2008. However there are some races — a hotly-debated referendum in Washington and key...
U.S. Attorney Seeks Computer Hard Drive in Mississippi Katrina Probe
Oct 26 2007 // An engineering firm that helped adjust insurance claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina is seeking to block an employee’s computer hard drive from being turned over to a federal grand jury in...
Miss. Woman Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Oct 24 2007 // A Jackson, Miss. woman faces insurance fraud charges, Attorney General Jim Hood’s office announced Monday. A news release from Hood’s office said Dianne Smith, 39, was arrested Friday. She was booked into the...
Congressional Leaders Oppose Miss. Plan to Divert Housing Funds
Oct 19 2007 // Two congressional leaders on Wednesday asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject a Mississippi plan to divert $600 million in Hurricane Katrina housing funds to an expansion project for the State...
Some Auto Insurance Rates to Drop in Mississippi
Oct 17 2007 // State Farm Mutual Insurance, the largest writer of automobile coverage in Mississippi, will lower its rate on Nov. 12, while Allstate’s rates will go up. State Farm will drop its rates an average of 3.6 percent. The...
Mississippi Post-Katrina Rebuilding Efforts Provide Lessons for Iraqis
Oct 15 2007 // A group of young Iraqi leaders toured South Mississippi last week to learn how the area is rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. The group of five dignitaries and two translators from the Kurdish region...
