All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2009 // The economic outlook should brighten in 2010-2011 for the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, but that’s not the case for the New Orleans area, an economist said this week at a regional economic forum.Lack of business...
Sep 17 2009 // People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can’t forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of...
Sep 14 2009 // Insurance rates are going up for many Alabama homeowners.Officials with three of the four companies that insure the most homes in Alabama say that they are raising rates. The company that sells the most homeowners...
Sep 8 2009 // Craig Bacheler is able to offer the employees at his small Alabama IT firm health benefits because of a new state law, but some who helped push for the law say it is too early to measure its benefits.Small companies, those...
Sep 7 2009 // Coastal Caution“This is not a simple issue. It’s an issue that you’ve got to address with great caution.” —Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney telling an Alabama House of...
Aug 17 2009 // Tropical Storm Claudette, the third of the Atlantic hurricane season, moved ashore along the U.S. Gulf coast early Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Claudette formed early Sunday morning. The storm hit the...
Aug 14 2009 // The keys to holding down insurance premiums on the Alabama coast are strong enforcement of building codes, proper land use and mitigating homes against future disasters, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney told...
Jul 20 2009 // A Gulf Shores insurance agency must pay a $36,000 fine and adopt multiple accounting controls within 18 months after selling bogus homeowners policies to at least 118 customers. A government hearing officer ruled that if...
Jul 16 2009 // An Alabama bankruptcy judge has ordered a Lillian man to sell assets to repay debts to nearly 100 creditors across the country.Morris C. Sears, 63, had run ABBA Bonding from his home since 2001 despite being told twice by...
Jul 1 2009 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has begun using new insurance producer examinations, according to Commissioner Jim Ridling said New outlines to be followed in the examinations have been placed on the department’s...
Jun 24 2009 // The lawyer for a Gulf Shores insurance agent has asked state officials to grant her a probation period to allow her to make repayments to customers victimized by fraud. Richard Lively said that revoking the license of...
Jun 22 2009 // An Alabama state judge has ordered former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to pay nearly $2.9 billion to shareholders who sued over a massive accounting fraud that nearly sent the rehabilitation chain into...
Jun 15 2009 // Rates for some coastal property owners insured through the residual market insurance organization known as the Alabama Beach Pool are going up July 1.The overall average hike will be 5.5 percent, according to the Alabama...
Jun 15 2009 // A former Montgomery, Alabama insurance executive has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for mail fraud and embezzlement in his insurance business.U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson imposed the sentence on John...
Jun 10 2009 // A downturn in the commodity markets has slowed the number of thefts in the Montgomery, Alabama area.Police in Elmore and Autuaga counties say when scrap copper was selling for $3.50 a pound, they constantly responded to...
Jun 4 2009 // A former Montgomery, Alabama insurance executive has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for mail fraud and embezzlement in his insurance business.U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson imposed the sentence on John...
May 29 2009 // Rates for some coastal property owners insured through the residual market insurance organization known as the Alabama Beach Pool are going up July 1.The overall average hike will be 5.5 percent, according to the Alabama...
May 8 2009 // States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of gun death according to analysis by the Violence Policy Center of just-revealed 2006 national data (the most recent available) from the...
Apr 29 2009 // Officials from three states of the Gulf Coast are meeting this week to discuss preparations for hurricane season.The 2009 Gulf States Hurricane Conference is being held Wednesday through Friday at the Coast Coliseum and...
Apr 29 2009 // A member of the crew on the U.S.-flagged ship hijacked by African pirates sued the owner and another company, accusing them of knowingly putting sailors in danger.Richard E. Hicks alleges in the suit that owner Maersk Line...