Few things help to build trust between insurance agents and their clients more than showing care and sensitivity around personal information. And key to that is understanding the general legal principals states enacted around handling “personal information.” Many states have …
The Mississippi Auditor’s Office presented Jackson County Circuit Clerk Joe Martin this week with a $100,000 insurance check to cover part of what an employee embezzled three years ago. Martin’s deputy clerks are covered by a bond in case of …
A Mississippi insurance agent accused in a kickback scheme with a former Lafayette County supervisor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy under a plea deal in U.S. District Court. Ken Nowlin, of Ecru, avoids a federal trial with the deal and …
A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. In an order made public July 27, U.S. District Judge William Acker …
Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, a flamboyant Alabama outdoorsman who was fitted with an electronic monitoring device and faces an order to pay more than $1 million in an insurance fraud case, has fled and may be in another country, …
A U.S. attorney on Wednesday declined a federal judge’s request to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney on allegations of criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. U.S. Attorney Alice Martin said in the letter to U.S. District Judge William …
The Ford Motor Co. should pay $6 million to a Florida man who was paralyzed when the Ford Aerostar van he was in rolled over, a jury ruled Wednesday. Julian Felipe, of Hialeah, was 17-years-old when he was a passenger …
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, Denton and attorney William C. Walker Jr. …
West Virginia Insurance Department officials arrested two Cabell County men earlier this month on multiple felony charges including insurance fraud, third degree arson, conspiracy and burning insured property. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, said Richard Sturgill, 29, and Jeffery Maynard, …
While denying wrongdoing, Willis Group Holdings Ltd., a national insurance broker, agreed to reimburse $2.6 million to multiple Florida cities and counties, according to state officials. Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Attorney General Bill McCollum, and Insurance Commissioner Kevin …
