The Atlantic hurricane season ended this Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and those …
The Army Corps of Engineers says the cost of a $1 billion pump-and-floodgate project on the western side of the New Orleans area is rising, forcing the agency to consider cutting up to $300 million in work. The Army Corps …
The Main Street America Group, based in Jacksonville, Fla., announced that Indiana-domiciled Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company has been cleared to become an affiliate of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based super regional property-casualty insurance carrier. The deal has been approved by the …
Insurance rates for about 26,000 State Farm homeowners in three Mississippi coastal counties will rise 19.5 percent beginning in February. Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced the rate increase, noting that in August he denied a request by the insurer …
Mississippi’s Lee County will spend more than $50,000 over the next three years on accident and life insurance for its 300-plus volunteer firefighters. The county’s 18 fire departments include only one — Tupelo — where every staffer is paid. Lee …
A $250,000 default judgment against Tippah County has been upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The case was filed in 2007 by Daniel Childers of Ripley, who contended that his elbow was broken during an arrest by county deputies in …
Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says homeowners whose properties are contaminated with defective Chinese drywall and who have been covered for more than three years by their homeowners insurer have the right to continue their coverage while vacating and …
Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions between July and September. This quarterly activity follows …
A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers’ “monumental negligence” for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. The federal …
A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet MRGO was a substantial cause for the flooding of part of the New Orleans-area during Hurricane …
