All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2011 // Regulators and consumer groups in Alabama are awaiting the results of a data call from insurers to see if they are quickly handling claims and resolving other residents’ claimants.Commissioner Jim Ridling issued the...
Dec 14 2011 // Four people will spend five years on probation after being convicted of pocketing money from Gulf oil spill claims.The Press-Register reported that U.S. District Judge William Steele also ordered the four to pay back money...
Dec 8 2011 // It’s not uncommon for Troy Collett to feel like he’s playing a game of dodge cars when he’s making a delivery in downtown Florence, Alabama.“I’ve felt the exhaust off the tailpipes (of the...
Dec 5 2011 // BP has lost two big rulings in its fight to shield itself from potentially having to pay billions of dollars more in damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.A federal judge ruled in mid-November...
Nov 18 2011 // At least six people have been killed and dozens more injured as a storm system that spawned several possible tornadoes moved across the Southeast.Suspected tornadoes were reported Wednesday in Louisiana, Mississippi,...
Nov 17 2011 // A west Alabama man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently claiming disaster benefits following the April 27 tornadoes in Alabama. Officials say 47-year-old Robert Lee Spires entered his plea before U.S. District Judge L. Scott...
Nov 14 2011 // A federal judge Monday said Alabama and Louisiana may seek punitive damages from companies including BP Plc for damages arising from last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The decision by U.S....
Oct 27 2011 // Alabama regulators are preparing to hold a public hearing on a proposed statewide average 9.3 percent decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation rates.The National Council on Compensation Insurance submitted...
Oct 26 2011 // Drivers in Alabama insured through State Farm will be paying slightly less for coverage beginning next month. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announced it would reduce its Alabama auto insurance rates by a...
Oct 21 2011 // Alabama residents who have their homeowners insurance through the state’s second largest property insurer must now include their auto coverage as part of their insurance package.Alfa Insurance Co. announced it will...
Oct 7 2011 // For the second time in three years, one of the largest homeowners in Alabama has indicated it will not raises rates along the coastline in lieu of a statewide average five percent increase on inland properties. State Farm...
Oct 3 2011 // Alabama homeowners insured by the state’s property insurer of last resort are paying less after the insurer implemented its first rate decrease in three years.The Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association last month...
Oct 3 2011 // Safe as houses.That’s an expression I’ve never quite understood. In light of the catastrophic events of 2011, the phrase is especially confusing. How safe are houses – from wildfires, hurricanes,...
Sep 30 2011 // The city of Orange Beach, Alabama has reached a settlement with BP PLC over lost revenues stemming from last year’s Gulf oil spill, with the oil giant agreeing to pay $1.27 million for lodging and retail revenues the...
Sep 30 2011 // Officers and directors of failed Colonial BancGroup in Alabama, including Auburn University trustee Bobby Lowder and former Auburn football coach Pat Dye, have agreed to pay investors $10.5 million to settle a class-action...
Sep 19 2011 // The special legislative session that Gov. Robert Bentley has promised on the affordability and availability of homeowners insurance could come in early 2012.The governor and the chairman of his insurance commission said a...
Sep 19 2011 // The Alabama Supreme Court ruled recently that a Birmingham-area woman can sue over the death of her unborn baby in a car wreck in 2007 even though the fetus couldn’t have lived outside the womb, a decision that...
Sep 19 2011 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has chosen the president and CEO of Protective Life Corp., Johnny Johns, and the publisher of The Birmingham News, Pam Siddall, to lead his Tornado Recovery Action Council. Retired aerospace...
Sep 15 2011 // Authorities say no major damage or injuries were reported after an earthquake in the metro Birmingham area Tuesday evening. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the 3.0 quake was centered about two miles southwest of...
Sep 15 2011 // Alabama homeowners insured by the state’s property insurer of last resort are paying less after the insurer implemented its first rate decrease in three years.The Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association last month...