SUNZ Insurance Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., has gained the rights to provide workers’ compensation in four more states within the southern half of the country. The added states are Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Arizona. SUNZ, which is five years …
Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building code requirements in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to a new report from the Institute for Business and Home Safety. “While there have …
The attorney general of Mississippi dubbed the perpetrators of the staged car accident the Apple Dumpling Gang, a reference to the 1975 Disney movie about a gang of bunglers out to steal gold. The last of the seven perpetrators was …
OneBeacon Insurance Group has formed an alliance with Frontline Underwriters, Inc. to offer a new motor truck cargo program to transportation customers in nine states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. A full suite …
The federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early May. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran announced the federal share Thursday. The usual cost-sharing …
Alabama is suing BP Plc, Transocean and Halliburton for “catastrophic harm” caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state’s attorney general said Friday. Alabama is the first state to sue BP for damage from the world’s worst offshore …
No matter which television channel or Web site you turn to, the Gulf oil spill has dominated the news. This is an environmental crisis that will affect the region’s economic capabilities and natural resources for years, if not decades, to …
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is headed toward the oil spill site off the coast of Louisiana. BP and Coast Guard officials had already decided to stop drilling on …
Officials say a community of hurricane-resistant homes is being built in Gulfport. The Sun Herald reports that the modular concrete homes will be built by Royal Concrete Concepts in Okeechobee, Fla., and sold through the company’s Mississippi distributor, Concrete Building …
Crime on cruise ships is rare, considering 10 million North Americans sailed last year. But some crime victims believe that justice also is rare — due to overlapping investigative powers, difficulty obtaining evidence and witnesses, and a lack of sworn …
