Latest Mississippi Headlines
All the headlines from our Mississippi Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nationwide Settles 10 Katrina Lawsuits in Mississippi
Jul 19 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has settled 10 lawsuits filed by Mississippi homeowners in a dispute over damage from Hurricane Katrina. The settlement was announced Monday by Biloxi attorney Jack Denton. Two weeks ago,...
Debate on Fate of Barrier Islands off Miss. Coast Continues
Jul 17 2007 // The barrier islands off the Mississippi coast offer pristine beaches to sun-loving tourists, a unique ecosystem to sea life and protection to the mainland from deadly storm surges during hurricanes. That’s why...
County Officials in Miss. Facing Higher Costs to Remove Asbestos
Jul 9 2007 // The removal of asbestos from the Lafayette County, Miss., Courthouse is going to cost more than original $60,000 set aside for the work, local supervisors have been told. “There was about 700-800 feet of floor tile...
Insurance Covers Part of Miss. County’s $3.5 Million Inmate Settlement
Jul 6 2007 // Harrison County, Mississippi supervisors announced that the county has reached a $3.5 million settlement for its part in a lawsuit brought by the family of Jessie Lee Williams Jr., an inmate beaten to death at the jail...
Federal Court to Hear Nationwide’s Miss. Katrina Storm Surge Appeal
Jul 6 2007 // A federal appeals court has set Aug. 6 as the date to hear arguments on whether Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. should be forced to cover storm surge damage to a Mississippi’s couple’s home from Hurricane...
Mississippi Credit Freeze Law Goes Into Effect
Jul 5 2007 // Several new state laws that took effect Juky 1 will impact the everyday lives of Mississippians. One requires motorists to move over at least one lane, where possible, to make room for emergency vehicles, state troopers or...
Chertoff, Governors Appeal for Coast Residents to get Storm Ready
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season. Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Mississippi poses PR challenge for State Farm and industry It’s the latest version of the Hatfields versus the McCoys but with billions of dollars and an insurer’s, if not an industry’s, reputation at...
Nationwide Adds $25 Million to Miss. Slab Claim Reevaluations
Jun 28 2007 // The Nationwide Insurance Companies, who agreed to voluntarily reevaluate Hurricane Katrina slab cases in April, have paid an additional $25 million in claims payments since the reevaluation process began, according to...
Allstate Agrees to Mass Settlement of Mississippi Katrina Claims
Jun 28 2007 // Allstate Insurance Co. has agreed to a mass settlement of claims by a group of Mississippi policyholders who sued the insurer over damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina, a company spokesman and a lawyer for the...
Miss. Insurance Official Briefs Congress on Abusive Medicare Sales
Jun 27 2007 // Deputy Insurance Commissioner Lee Harrell testified before a Congressional sub-committee Tuesday on the problems Mississippi faces regarding the spread of abusive Medicare insurance sales practices. Harrell was joined by...
Miss. Gubernatorial Candidate: Barbour ‘Beholden’ to Insurance Interests
Jun 26 2007 // Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves Jr. told a press group that he wants to create a state program to provide health coverage for all of Mississippi’s uninsured children. Eaves also said Republican...
Safety Summit to Address Fire Deaths in Mississippi
Jun 25 2007 // Latest statistics show a record 34 fire deaths occurred in Mississippi this year, an average of at least 5 a month, according to state officials. Commissioner of Insurance and State Fire Marshal George Dale will join an...
Miss.: Scruggs Files Racketeering Charges against State Farm
Jun 20 2007 // The Scruggs Katrina Group filed federal charges against State Farm, E.A. Renfroe Company, and Forensic Analysis and Engineering Company on behalf of 21 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane...
Vulnerable Outer Banks
Jun 18 2007 // Declarations “If we had a Katrina-sized storm, 75 percent of these islands could be gone. You can count on it cleaning the clock.” — Stan Riggs, a geologist at East Carolina University who has studied the...
Rasberry exits Miss. race
Jun 18 2007 // Jim Rasberry has withdrawn as a candidate for Mississippi insurance commissioner. Rasberry, president of Rasberry Financial Services in Laurel, said that he was withdrawing from the Democratic Party primary because it was...
Unsafe Work Conditions Caused Fatal Miss. Explosion, Feds Say
Jun 14 2007 // Unsafe work conditions contributed to a deadly oilfield explosion in Smith County, Miss., in 2006, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said this week. The board, an independent federal agency charged with investigating...
Jackson, Miss. Among Most Dangerous Cities in U.S.
Jun 14 2007 // Mississippi’s capitol city has had a dramatic one-year jump in crime placing it among the most dangerous in the country, according to information from the FBI’s preliminary Uniform Crime Report for 2006. The...
Trial Date Set in Mississippi Insurance Kickback Case
Jun 13 2007 // A July 23 trial date has been set for a former Lafayette County, Miss., supervisor and an Ecru businessman charged in kickback case involving a county employees’ health insurance program. The trial will be held in...
Jury Finds DuPont Dioxins Not Liable for Child’s Death
Jun 12 2007 // A Jones County, Mississippi jury has rejected a couple’s claim that dioxins from the DuPont Co.’s plant on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were responsible for the death of their daughter. The jury verdict came in a...
