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 elections in Mississippi, …
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 Mississippi. Forensic Analysis & Engineering Corp. …
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)continue to interview motorists who were on the Interstate 35W bridge when it collapsed more than two months ago and expect to conclude their investigation in Minneapolis by late November, the agency said …
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 Hinds County Detention Center. Smith is accused …
CAIC Holding Company Inc. announced it began offering surety coverages in Texas through its wholly owned subsidiary, Commercial Alliance Insurance Company (CAIC), effective Oct. 1, 2007. Sterling Emens III was appointed vice president of CAIC to head up the new …
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 Port at Gulfport. Reps. Barney …
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a so-called “whistleblowers”‘ lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for Hurricane Katrina’s flood damage to Louisiana homes. Allan Kanner, the New Orleans-based attorney who filed the suit on behalf …
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 company insures about …
When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again. The nation’s …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has expanded eligibility for a program to pay travel costs for Gulf Coast hurricane victims moving back home. The one-time grant, still capped at $4,000, is now open to applicants who returned home any time …
