All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 10 2011 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Jan 10 2011 // The oil industry may be to blame for millions of dollars of damage and lost business along Alabama’s coast but it’s the insurance industry that holds the key to the state’s coastal recovery.This truth is...
Jan 10 2011 // Incumbent Alabama Commissioner of Insurance Jim L. Ridling will continue in that role in the new administration of Gov. Robert Bentley. Ridling has served as commissioner since 2008.“Jim Ridling is a respected...
Dec 23 2010 // The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the region and one that didn’t do as much harm as feared.The April 20 blowout of...
Dec 22 2010 // Whitney Crowder doesn’t remember the day her father died.What happened Dec. 16, 2000, has gone down in state history: Eleven people, including her father and baby brother, died when an F4 tornado hit south...
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
Dec 20 2010 // Josh Dodd was traveling home last year, the same Alabama route he has taken countless times on Lauderdale 7, when a deer ran onto the road.Instinctively, he dodged to avoid colliding with the deer. His car went off the...
Dec 20 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh appointed Peter Mavraganis as U.S. leader of its renewable energy practice. Mavraganis, based in New York, will oversee Marsh’s support for its clients in renewable energy development,...
Dec 17 2010 // Incumbent Alabama Commissioner of Insurance Jim L. Ridling will continue in that role in the new administration of Governor-elect Robert Bentley. Ridling has served as commissioner since 2008. “Jim Ridling is a...
Dec 15 2010 // A man has filed a federal lawsuit over his claim that two Russell County, Ala. deputy sheriffs beat him while a Phenix City police officer watched. Patrick Carlton Harrington is seeking $8 million in the lawsuit, which was...
Dec 9 2010 // Lauderdale County, Ala. jurors have awarded $5 million in damages to a woman who suffered life-threatening injuries in a 2004 arson fire.The TimesDaily newspaper reported that 20-year-old Karrie Hayes testified during the...
Dec 7 2010 // President Barack Obama should intervene to stop the $20 billion BP oil spill compensation fund from depriving claimants of their rights, Alabama Governor Bob Riley said Monday, calling the way the fund was operating...
Dec 7 2010 // Victims of a 2006 school bus crash that killed four high school students and injured two dozen others in Huntsville four years ago can move forward with their lawsuits against a bus company, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled...
Dec 6 2010 // An Alabama appeals court has ruled that a false and defamatory published statement can be libelous even if it accurately quotes a person making the claim, includes a denial and makes clear the allegation is unverified.The...
Nov 30 2010 // Many of Alabama’s personal and commercial lines insurers have established the Alabama Insurance Information Service (AIIS), a not-for-profit, non-lobbying trade association to provide news and information to the...
Nov 10 2010 // Oil giant BP says it has paid more than $657 million for grants, claims and recovery costs in Alabama from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The oil company released updated figures this week on the amounts it has paid...
Nov 4 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country.Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great...
Nov 2 2010 // Alabama insurance officials will consider an industry proposal to lower workers’ compensation loss costs in the state at a public hearing tomorrow in Montgomery.Citing reduced claims frequency, workers’...
Nov 1 2010 // The Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association, the state’s wind insurer of last resort, will stop issuing policies for buildings standing in or built over water. Manager Bob Groves said the association is worried...
Oct 29 2010 // Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said the city is not able to grant workers’ compensation benefits to the family of injured police Cpl. David Brown. The family filed a lawsuit against the city seeking the benefits for...