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Dale embraces new challenges after 32 years as insurance commissioner.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dale embraces new challenges after 32 years as insurance commissioner.(Focus)

Article Excerpt
Former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale was one of the state s most popular politicians, easily winning re-election again and again until earning the distinction of being the nation's longest-serving insurance commissioner.

Then, Hurricane Katrina arrived. Tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents were displaced by an unprecedented storm surge that rolled over large swaths of land that had never flooded before. Many homeowners didn't have flood insurance, and even when left with only a slab found that their insurance companies refused to pay any claims--attributing all of the damage to flooding that the companies didn't cover instead of wind, which they did cover.

With so many people homeless and yet still owning a big mortgage on a slab, there was a huge amount of pent up anger. When Dale ran for re-election to what would have been his ninth term, he was defeated in the...

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