Insurance: A Business Breaker

Posted: Tuesday, May 1 at 05:01 am CT by Mike Stuckey
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.

[Mark] Currier, who with his wife, Jenise McCardell, runs Clay Creations in Old Town and owns a gallery there that is leased by an artists’ cooperative.

“Come on,” Currer says of the commercial rate increase. “The big thing is we’re all excited that they did drop [insurance rates] down from being tripled, but it’s still more than doubled.”

Currier, who plans to remain in his current location, saw the annual insurance bill for his Main Street holdings -- which include his shop, the gallery, a photographer’s studio and a couple of residences -- go from $7,000 to $25,000 before coming back down to $17,000. “It’s a freaking mess,” he says.

And more of a mess than Renee and Drew Boxx, Currier’s new neighbors in Old Town, could take.

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Mark Currier and Jenise McCardell (David Friedman / MSNBC.com)