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  • Kroger settles tobacco issue with group of AGs

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood The country's largest grocery store chain has reached an agreement with 41 state attorneys general and will implement measures aimed at preventing sales of tobacco products to minors.

  • Feds: Scruggs, AG Hood worked closely on whistleblower controversy

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors say trial lawyer Richard Scruggs, currently the target of criminal contempt charges, was offered advice by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood before violating a judge's order.

  • Fla. justices interpret law in hurricane case

    By John O'Brien |
    Wells TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court recently decided something of a "Wind v. Water" case, rejecting a plaintiff's claim that an insurance company was wholly responsible for damages done by 2004's Hurricane Ivan.

  • Hood: Outside counsel process needs no change

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood recently told a state newspaper that his office's current system used when hiring outside counsel is doing just fine.

  • Scruggs indicted for contempt

    By John O'Brien |
    Richard Scruggs BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Special prosecutors appointed by a federal judge on Tuesday hit nationally known plaintiffs attorney Richard Scruggs and his law firm with criminal contempt charges over his handling of insurance documents related to Hurricane Katrina claims.

  • Scruggs apparently not in the clear yet

    By John O'Brien |
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Apparently unhappy that his advice went unheeded, federal judge William Acker showed Friday that he isn't ready to give up on prosecuting nationally known trial lawyer Richard Scruggs for contempt.

  • Scruggs won't be prosecuted for contempt

    By John O'Brien |
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Despite a federal judge's request to do so, the U.S. attorney in Birmingham will not charge well-known trial lawyer Richard Scruggs with contempt over his handling of confidential documents.

  • Editorial: Hood's views on outside counsel conflicting

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's feelings concerning his office's practice of hiring outside lawyers to represent the state were the subject of a recent editorial in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

  • Allstate, Scruggs settle

    By John O'Brien |
    GULFPORT, Miss. - The Scruggs Katrina Group, a team of lawyers led by prominent plaintiffs attorney Richard Scruggs, has reached an agreement with Allstate Insurance Co. to create a procedure for settling disputed claims stemming from Hurricane Katrina.

  • Hood sues State Farm for not settling

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood JACKSON, Miss. - With an agreement settling allegations that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. unfairly treated its customers after 2005's Hurricane Katrina still not reached, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday charged the company with breaching the terms of a settlement that was rejected by a federal judge.

  • Hood follows through with gas suits

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he would sue those gas companies that wouldn't settle with him, and on Thursday he made good on that promise.

  • ChoicePoint settles with 44 states

    By John O'Brien |
    Nearly all of the country's state attorneys general will drop civil charges against ChoicePoint that allege it failed to adequately maintain the privacy and security of its consumers' personal information.

  • Gas companies settle with Miss. AG

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Thursday announced five companies have settled with his office following an investigation of alleged post-Hurricane Katrina gasoline price-gouging.

  • Hood suing State Farm... again

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood JACKSON, Miss. - For failing to work around a federal judge's rejection of a proposed settlement, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has decided to sue State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.

  • Nationwide settling Katrina claims

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood One of the five insurance companies sued by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood over an alleged lack of coverage following Hurricane Katrina has settled more than 200 claims and will revisit others.

  • Woullard class action against State Farm dismissed

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood GULFPORT, Miss. - In a move that seemed to surprise no one, a federal judge on Monday dismissed the long-troubled Woullard class certification attempt that was part of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's proposed settlement with State Farm Insurance Co.

  • Scruggs attacking Insurance Commissioner Dale

    By John O'Brien |
    Richard Scruggs' attack ad on Insurance Commissioner George Dale A prominent plaintiffs attorney with ties to the Mississippi Attorney General's office recently took out a full-page ad in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger depicting state Insurance Commissioner George Dale as a pig wearing lipstick.

  • Guice class denied certification, State Farm re-evaluating claims

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood GULFPORT, Miss. - While the end result of each "slab case" is plainly obvious to the naked eye, a federal judge on Thursday ruled that a similar acceptance can not be made as it relates to the means by which the result occurred.

  • Scruggs' contempt hearing set for Wednesday

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Richard Scruggs, a trial lawyer with close ties to the Mississippi Attorney General's office, will be the subject of a civil contempt hearing Wednesday in Alabama federal court.

  • Attorney: State Farm settlement possibly "can't be fixed"

    By John O'Brien |
    Hood GULFPORT, Miss. - A team of lawyers led by nationally known plaintiffs attorney Richard Scruggs has withdrawn its request for approval of a multi-million-dollar settlement reached with State Farm Insurance Co.