by Associated Press Published: May 22,2013
Tags: board of supervisors, bridge, county, county government, damage, insurance, insurance agency, insurer, road, settlement, street, transportation, travel
CORINTH — The insurer for a transport company has paid $247,500 for damage to Alcorn County roads in 2011. The board of supervisors accepted the settlement for damage to Holly Church Road and Henson Road. Supervisors say the roads were damaged during a transport job by Burkhalter Rigging of Columbus. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 12,2013
Tags: agreement, health, health benefit, health care, insurance, job, layoff, low income, medical, medicine, poor, pregnancy, public health, social worker, state agency
JACKSON — Mississippi Medicaid officials will resume paying state Health Department workers to help women with high-risk pregnancies. The agreement, announced Friday, starts June 1 and runs through June 30, 2014. Medicaid has typically paid the Health Department more than $8.5 million a year for the program. The new agreement reverses last month’s decision by [...] [...]
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by Associated Press Published: May 9,2013
Tags: appeal, award, crime, home, homeowner, homeowners insurance, house, insurance, insurer, judge, judicial, judiciary, jury, justice, law, legal, real estate, residence, resident, residential real estate, ruling, whistleblower
GULFPORT — State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has asked a judge to void a jury’s finding that the company defrauded the government involving a policyholder claim after Hurricane Katrina. Motions filed in U.S. District Court in Gulfport also seek a new trial The verdict came in April in a whistleblower lawsuit against the Illinois- [...] [...]
People Lease has added Julie Deer to the staff. Deer brings two years’ experience in the insurance industry with her. She is a licensed property and casualty agent and is currently pursuing her licensing in life and health. Deer is a 2010 graduate of Mississippi State University, where she received a degree in business administration. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 25,2013
Tags: automobile, claim, damage, destruction, hail, hailstorm, home, house, insurance, insurer, residence, severe weather, state agency, storm, Weather
METRO JACKSON — The latest report from Mississippi’s major insurance carriers on the March hailstorm to the Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) shows that both claim and payment numbers continue to rise. As of the April 15 reporting period over 56,000 homeowner and automobile damage claims have been filed and claims payments are at $209.4 million, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 23,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, deposit, eartning, finance, financial institution, insurance, law, legal, litigation, loan, mortgage, publicly traded company
TUPELO — BancorpSouth Inc. has released financial results for the quarter ended March 31. Highlights for the first quarter included: • Net income of $20.8 million or $0.22 per diluted share • Mortgage production of $425.9 million and mortgage sales of $445.9 million, which contributed to mortgage lending revenue of $12.3 million for the quarter, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 9,2013
Tags: drugs, health, health benefits, health care, insurance, management, medical, medicine, patient history, perscription, public health, software
JACKSON — The State of Mississippi Medicaid has selected MedeAnalytics, a California-based provider of healthcare performance management solutions, for the next generation of the state’s Medicaid Electronic Health Records System (MEHRS) application. The state’s primary goal is to integrate claims and clinical data from various health information exchanges and serve as the clinical data warehouse [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: health, health benefits, health care, health care reform, hospital, insurance, lawmaker, legislative, legislator, Legislature, low income, medical, medicine, politician, Politics, poor, public health, uninsured
JACKSON — Two lawmakers who spoke at a press luncheon yesterday disagreed about whether Mississippi should expand Medicaid, reflecting the partisan split that left the health program in limbo when the House and Senate ended their three-month session last week. Democratic Sen. David Blount, of Jackson, said adding an estimated 300,000 people to Medicaid — [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2013
Tags: flooding, home, homeowner, house, hurricane, insurance, justice, law, legal, natural disaster, property, rain, real estate, residential real estate, storm, storm surge, tropical, wind
GULFPORT — A federal jury has found State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. committed fraud against the federal government and submitted a false record to support fraud after Hurricane Katrina. The Sun Herald reports the verdict came after the eight-member jury deliberated for three hours Monday in a whistleblower lawsuit. The decision potentially opens for [...] [...]
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