Articles by Anita Lee

Mississippi High Court Due to Rule in Wind-Water Insurance Case

A decision is pending from the Mississippi Supreme Court in another wind vs. water case, this one involving a Pascagoula home subjected to 6.3 feet of storm surge. The National Flood Insurance Program paid Jackson County sheriff’s deputy Michael Robichaux …

Mississippi Homeowners Learning Credit Score Link to Insurance

Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers who have suffered financial setbacks because of the economy …

Mississippi Homeowners Learning How Credit Score Affects Insurance Premium

Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers who have suffered financial setbacks because of the economy …

Miss. Insurance Commissioner Candidates’ Money Difficult to Trace

Republican Mike Chaney said he spent around $1 million to win the Mississippi insurance commissioner’s race in 2007. “It’s obscene to spend that much money on an election for a job that pays less than $100,000 a year,” Chaney said, …

Allstate Hit for Linking Fire Renewals to Separate Wind Policy in Miss.

Michael McAndrews would like to know what business Allstate has telling him he must buy wind and hail coverage โ€” or else. McAndrews received a letter July 12 that said Allstate will not renew his homeowner’s coverage for fire and …

Some Miss. Coast Homeowners Won’t Have to Repay Grant

Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must repay. A federal grant modification that created the situation has gone …

Other Mississippians Upset Because they Bothered ‘To Be Responsible’

Policyholders who settled Hurricane Katrina lawsuits confidentially with insurance companies can keep those payments, along with federal grants for structural damage other homeowners were ineligible to receive or must repay. A federal grant modification that created the situation has gone …

Another Katrina Suit Filed Against State Farm by Mississippi Insured

Judy Dutruch has long questioned why her insurance company refused to send an engineer to investigate Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her Diamondhead home on Aug. 29, 2005, before denying her claim. Batesville attorney Richard “Flip” Phillips, who seeks to represent …

Mississippi Coast faces the storm after the storms: wind or water damage?

Insurers in unpopular position with public and some officials trying to answer multibillion question case-by-case The wind came first. It pried off boards and shot debris into windows at Ron Peresich’s home on Biloxi’s (Mississippi) Back Bay. It tore off …