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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.