All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2012 // Starting Wednesday, texting, emailing and instant messaging while driving will become illegal in Alabama, with violators facing fines and possibly higher insurance rates.That is, if they don’t have a wreck first....
Jul 24 2012 // San Francisco-based Socius Insurance Services Inc., a management liability and property/casualty insurance wholesaler, has opened an office in Birmingham, Alabama, and named Hank Stickley as vice president. Stickley comes...
Jul 20 2012 // The Alabama Department of Insurance will remain closed until at least Monday due to a power outage caused by a small fire in Montgomery’s RSA Tower on Thursday morning. The 23-story tower, owned and operated by the...
Jul 16 2012 // U.S. Gulf Coast states have a higher stake in the amount of money the U.S. government can wring out of BP Plc for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill due to a new law that would divert billions of dollars in potential BP...
Jul 11 2012 // Within the span of a week, the Gulf built a beach in front of most of the rock wall used to close Katrina Cut.The wall was constructed in 2010 using money provided by BP during the oil spill. The goal was to close a...
Jul 3 2012 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, has agreed to acquire the assets of The Securance Group, Inc., an independent property/casualty and life/health insurance agency headquartered in...
Jul 2 2012 // Alabama’s Revenue Department is launching an online system that will allow county license plate officials to verify whether a vehicle has liability insurance. The Legislature passed a requirement last year that the...
Jul 2 2012 // Alabama’s governor is promoting new laws designed to make homeowners’ insurance more affordable after hurricanes drove up prices.Gov. Robert Bentley, who owns a vacation home on the coast, made...
Jun 24 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning...
Jun 20 2012 // Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1994, Whitehaven Insurance...
Jun 19 2012 // Alabama’s Revenue Department is launching an online system that will allow county license plate officials to verify whether a vehicle has liability insurance. State Revenue Commissioner Julie Magee said the Insurance...
Jun 15 2012 // Alabama’s governor visited the Gulf coast this week to promote new laws designed to make homeowner’s insurance more affordable after hurricanes drove up prices.Gov. Robert Bentley told Foley residents that he...
May 16 2012 // An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit against a Florida blood bank, charging that a transfusion during a coronary bypass surgery infected him with HIV.The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated blood given to Howard Midkiff...
May 9 2012 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has signed into law a measure (HB 2) that prohibits texting while driving.“Signing this bill sends a message that drivers need to focus on driving – not on sending a text,” Bentley...
May 7 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...
May 7 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish.The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
May 2 2012 // When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers’ paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time:...
May 1 2012 // Developers of an Orange Beach, Alabama condo project say BP should pay out a claim they filed for losses they say resulted from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The Press-Register reported that developer Larry...
May 1 2012 // As Alabama prepares to observe the first anniversary of deadly tornadoes last April 27, the Legislature approved the creation of a tax-free weekend for buying disaster preparedness supplies. The bill by Republican Rep....
Apr 30 2012 // State lawmakers have voted unanimously to make Alabama the 38th state to ban texting while driving.A compromise version of the bill by Republican Rep. Jim McClendon of Springville cleared the House 95-0 and the Senate...