The Mississippi insurance commissioner is going it alone in filing a lawsuit aimed at delaying the onset of flood insurance rate hikes after the state attorney general declined to represent him.
The premiums are scheduled to go into effect Oct. 1.
"We are moving ahead with our suit plans," commissioner Mike Chaney said last night after disclosing that AG Jim Hood had declined Tuesday to file the suit on Chaney's behalf.
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