Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. has been approved by the Alabama Department of Insurance to write homeowners insurance in the state through its subsidiary Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC). The company reported that UPCIC has subsequently written its first …
Gov. Robert Bentley is creating a research center at the University of Alabama to try to improve the availability and affordability of homeowners insurance following hurricanes and tornadoes that demolished homes from the coast to the Tennessee line. Bentley went …
Some of the money that Alabama receives from BP over the Gulf oil spill could end up helping coastal residents make their homes more resistant to wind damage from hurricanes. That is one of the recommendations from a commission that …
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 worked with legislators from Mobile and Baldwin counties …
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 said. “There is …
A commission put together by Gov. Robert Bentley has made its first recommendations about the availability and affordability of homeowners’ insurance. The Affordable Homeowners Insurance Commission said it decided to back legislation that would create catastrophic savings accounts. These would …
Gov. Robert Bentley has not yet kept a campaign promise he made in 2010 to have the Legislature address the rising cost and declining availability of homeowners’ insurance in Alabama. Almost a year has passed since he announced the creation …
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 no longer underwrite single homeowners policies in Alabama. …
