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Travelers’ Close to Lead Valent Group’s Alabama P&C Brokerage, Service Dept.
Apr 22 2019 // Valent Group, the risk consulting and insurance division of EBSCO Industries (EBSCO), has hired Kurt Close to lead its Birmingham, Ala.-based property and casualty broking and service departments. Close comes to Valent...
Best Downgrades Credit Ratings of Alabama-Based Alfa Insurance Group Members
Apr 18 2019 // AM Best has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “a” from “a+” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of the members of Alfa Insurance Group....
ProAssurance of Alabama Makes Management Changes; Francis to Lead Healthcare
Apr 17 2019 // ProAssurance Corporation has revised its management structure for its newly formed Specialty P&C operating division. As previously announced, Michael L. Boguski will assume the presidency of Specialty P&C on May...
Scientists Investigate Recent Earthquakes in the South
Apr 1 2019 // Scientists are sending additional sensors to south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with aims of solving the mystery of what caused a spate of recent earthquakes. Five earthquakes have been detected in the region within a...
Severe Weather Season is Here
Mar 28 2019 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Severe convective storms—the group name given to tornadoes, hail, and straight-line winds—are among the most common and damage-inducing natural catastrophes in the...
Storms Cause High Winds, Damage in Central Alabama
Mar 28 2019 // Some buildings were damaged in central Alabama as storms moved across the state. Chilton County Emergency Management Director Derrick Wright told news outlets the damage in downtown Clanton on Monday afternoon appears to...
5th Earthquake This Month Strikes Near Alabama-Florida State Line
Mar 27 2019 // Another weak earthquake has struck near the Alabama-Florida state line. News outlets report it’s the fifth small quake in the area this month. There has been no damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said a...
Alabama High Court Backs $1.25M Wrongful Termination Settlement
Mar 25 2019 // The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that an Alabama man who was wrongfully terminated is entitled to seek lost future earnings totaling $1.25 million. The Hattiesburg American reported that...
16 Tornadoes Confirmed in Alabama During Recent Storms
Mar 21 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a 16th tornado from an outbreak that left damage across Alabama last week. Forecasters say a small twister with winds of up to 65 mph (105 kph) was on the ground for a little more...
Alabama Tornadoes Caused Nearly $6M in Timber Losses
Mar 18 2019 // The Alabama Forestry Commission estimates timber losses caused by deadly tornadoes on March 3 at nearly $5.9 million. That’s almost $1,000 per acre of timberland damaged by two or three tornadoes in Macon, Lee and...
More Tornadoes Hit Southeast, Cause Damage in Kentucky, Alabama
Mar 18 2019 // The National Weather Service has confirmed at least six tornados hit Alabama on Thursday. The National Weather Service in Birmingham on Saturday posted ongoing damage survey reports. The number of confirmed tornados could...
Deadly Southeast Tornado Outbreak Spawned 36 Tornadoes, 23 Deaths
Mar 18 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly outbreak across the Southeast in early March was at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Alabama Funeral Home to Pay $12M in Lawsuit Over Lost Cremated Remains
Mar 14 2019 // The daughter of an Alabama woman whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home has been awarded $12 million. Al.com reports the jury verdict was announced Monday after Pine Crest Funeral Home in Mobile lost the...
Deadly Alabama Tornado Highlights Human Safety Risk Despite Improved Forecasting
Mar 11 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Trump Visits Alabama to Survey Damage from Powerful Tornado
Mar 11 2019 // Standing near the slab that’s all that is left of one family’s garage, President Donald Trump on Friday surveyed the devastation wrought by a powerful tornado that ripped through a rural Alabama town, uprooting...
36 Tornadoes Confirmed in Deadly Southeast Outbreak
Mar 8 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly weekend outbreak across the Southeast has risen to at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Alabama Tornado Recovery Efforts Begin As Threat of More Storms Looms
Mar 7 2019 // All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death...
Southeast Storm System Spawned 18 Tornadoes, ‘Monster’ EF4 in Alabama
Mar 6 2019 // Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father’s Day note to her husband reading, “Daddy, I love you to pieces.” Her husband was...
Update: F3 Twister Leaves Trail of Destruction, Kills At Least 23 in Alabama
Mar 5 2019 // Rescuers searched for victims Monday amid homes smashed to their foundations, shredded metal dangling from trees and dead animals lying in the open after a tornado ripped through a rural Alabama community and killed at...
Death Toll Climbs After Tornadoes Strike Southeast
Mar 5 2019 // This photo shows debris in Lee County, Ala., after what appeared to be a tornado struck in the area Sunday, March 3, 2019. Severe storms destroyed mobile homes, snapped trees and left a trail of destruction amid weather...
