Homeowner insurance rights bill dies
Long Beach resident Kevin Buckel believed this was the year — finally — that the Mississippi Legislature would pass his homeowner- insurance rights bill.
He was wrong.
Buckel had pledges of support for the bill from the governor, speaker of the House, lieutenant governor, commissioner of insurance and numerous others. The bill, authored by Rep. Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach, passed the state House by a whopping 116-3.
Sun Herald
4/4/12
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