Mike Chaney

• Senate Majority Leader Seeks Compromise on Bill to Delay NFIP Rate Hikes

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 10, 2013

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking extraordinary steps to force a compromise on a proposed amendment to pending legislation that would indefinitely delay politically-sensitive hikes in flood insurance premiums scheduled to go into effect next year.

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  Claims Counts, Payments Rising from Mississippi Hailstorm

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  April 8, 2013

  Insurers have paid more than $25 million in claims from a March 18 hailstorm in Mississippi.

• New Hires and Promotions at Main Street America, Senn Dunn, Nautilus and PricewaterhouseCooper - Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  April 4, 2013

  TAPCO expands coverage, Markel introduces a new tenant discrimination policy, and Starr Aviation launches a new safety initiative.

• As NFIP Faces Deepening Debt, Some Call for More Subsidies and Lower Rates

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 29, 2013

  Congress faces renewed pressure from both federal and state legislators to reduce the cost of flood insurance. But will the program ever be able to pay down the deficit?

• As NFIP Faces Deepening Debt, Some Call for More Subsidies and Lower Rates

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 25, 2013

  Congress is coming under renewed pressure from both state and federal legislators to reduce the cost of flood insurance and provide greater subsidies for the National Flood Insurance Program.

• Chaney: NFIP 'One Large Event' Away from Needing More Money

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 15, 2013

  The flood-insurance program has the money to pay claims resulting from Superstorm Sandy, but is just “one large event” away from needing to ask Congress for more money, a state-insurance regulator is warning.

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  The Week in Quotes

  By Staff Writers  |  March 30, 2012

  Industry leaders have a lot to say. PC360 brings our readers the top quotes from major industry players for the week of March 26.

• 16 State Insurance Commissions Fail Integrity Evaluation

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 26, 2012

  Sixteen state insurance agencies failed a national state-evaluation test, but Mississippi came out on top of the 50-state review.

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  Chaney Wins Another Term As Mississippi Insurance Commissioner

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 9, 2011

  Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has won re-election with more than 60 percent of the vote.

• Mississippi Signs NIMA for Surplus Lines Law Implementation

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 17, 2011

  Mississippi joins Florida and Hawaii in signing the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement to implement the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010—a surplus-lines-related component of the Dodd-Frank financial-services reform bill.

• State Farm, Allstate Get Rate-Hike Approvals

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com, Joan E. Collier, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 18, 2011

  Allstate will be charging Mississippi homeowners an average of 19.4 percent more for insurance, and State Farm received approval for an average 18.8 percent rate hike in Florida.

• Allstate-Chaney Feud Over Home Rates Ends With 19.4% Increase

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 13, 2011

  Allstate will be charging Mississippi homeowners an average of 19.4 percent more for insurance.

• USAA Pulling Wind Coverage For Some On Mississippi Coast

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 11, 2011

  USAA is looking to drop wind coverage from certain policyholders living in Mississippi’s three coastal counties.

• Allstate Requests Hearing On Miss. Rejection Of 44% HO Rate Hike

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 9, 2010

  An Allstate Insurance Company spokesperson confirmed that the company has filed a request for a hearing regarding the Mississippi Insurance Department's decision to reject

• Mississippi High Court Upholds Denied Katrina Records Request

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 9, 2010

  A Mississippi man who wanted the state's insurance department to give him all records it had on homeowners insurance claims filed after Hurricane Katrina was again denied.

• Homeowners Market Moves Spark Confrontations With Trio Of Regulators

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 4, 2010

  Homeowners insurance controversies have made headlines in Florida, Mississippi and New York of late, as insurers and regulators struggle to maintain a viable catastrophe coverage market, and in some cases butt heads over rates and exposure.