Ocean Springs mayor says insurance increases are alarming

The mayor opened Thursday's insurance survey press conference with a dire warning, telling the crowd, "Insurance rates are causing a lot of our homeowners and business owners to rethink about even staying in Ocean Springs." The mayor also added, "It's a tremendous hardship for everyone on the gulf coast.

[jwmort]

The Mayor is correct ... insurance companies are thieves who have forced us into paying them more and more and more. Karma will catch up, the sooner the better.

[Scarlette]

We have been life long residents of the coast but as soon as our home sells we are moving to AL. We can get alot more house because the insurance on a 225,000 is only 1k a year and that's hurricane included. One new neighborhood we looked at the salesman told us everyone that has bought there came from MS it's close enough to comute to work.