An attorney who helped negotiate a multibillion-dollar settlement against tobacco companies in the 1990s and has sued insurers over unpaid Hurricane Katrina claims was indicted in a suspected scheme to bribe a Mississippi judge. The indictment accuses Richard “Dickie” Scruggs …
FBI agents who searched the law offices of Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs on Tuesday left with copies of the office’s computer hard drives, a lawyer for the firm said Wednesday. Joey Langston, who represents Scruggs’ firm but isn’t an …
The Indiana Department of Insurance announced that it will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Nov. 29 on a proposed school pooling regulation. According to the Department, one of the most important issues under consideration is whether a school’s mandatory …
Monday marked the first day of classes at Gautier, Miss., Elementary School since Hurricane Katrina flooded and damaged the building in 2005. The city’s oldest school, built in 1940, was repaired with money from federal and state agencies and insurance …
The National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), elected the following officers for 2008: Sen. James Seward (NY) as President-Elect; Rep. Robert Damron (KY) as Vice President; Rep. George Keiser (ND) as Secretary; and Sen. Carroll Leavell (NM) as Treasurer. In …
A federal appeals panel is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to clarify when the clock starts ticking on the filing of certain medical malpractice claims. Specifically, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wants to know how …
Every eligible federal judge in north Alabama has stepped aside from presiding in the criminal contempt case of Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs, who is accused of disobeying an order by failing to turn over Hurricane Katrina-related insurance documents to …
What will $229,000 cover in the Mississippi real estate market? A five-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot home in the capital city of Jackson, or a 280-square-foot temporary FEMA trailer in the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged zone of the Gulf Coast, according to a government report …
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 PBS&J Engineering, the firm in charge for the …
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