Latest Alabama Headlines
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Alabama Eases Senior Driver Discount Rules
Sep 21 2012 // Alabama senior citizens will have easier access to courses that can qualify them for automobile insurance premium credits under a new state law that allows them to take the courses online. Approved by state lawmakers...
Hurricane Isaac Washed Away Alabama’s Sand Island
Sep 18 2012 // Sand Island along the Alabama coast has disappeared beneath the waves. The Sand Island Lighthouse is still standing alone in the water. But the island that was rebuilt by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers last year got...
Alabama Officials Mull How to Share Oil Spill Penalty Money
Sep 18 2012 // Local communities should not hire lobbyists as Alabama tries to determine how to dole out at least $1 billion in penalty funds it expects to receive as a result of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama Gov....
Alabama Law Requires Ignition Locks for Drunk Drivers
Sep 11 2012 // A new law in Alabama requires motorists convicted of drunken driving to install ignition interlocks on their vehicles, although police have questions about how that law will be enforced. The new requirement, which took...
Alabama Coast Evacuated for Isaac; Georgia Warned on Flooding, Tornadoes
Aug 28 2012 // Coastal Alabama is under a mandatory evacuation order as Isaac churns through the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Robert Bentley ordered residents of southern Baldwin and Mobile counties to begin evacuating starting 8 a.m. Monday,...
Now There’s an App for Workers’ Comp Claims
Aug 27 2012 // There’s an app for just about everything. And although a new workers’ compensation application from the University of Alabama at Birmingham may not be a must-add to every smart phone, its developers say it will...
Copper Theft on Rise in Alabama
Aug 6 2012 // Copper thefts are becoming a growing problem for Alabama farmers. Southeast Alabama farmer Trey Martin said someone stole the copper wiring from his irrigation system. The copper wire was worth $50, but the damages to the...
New, Tougher Insurance Fraud Law Now in Effect in Alabama
Aug 2 2012 // A number of recently enacted laws in Alabama concerning property-casualty insurance became effective on August 1. • One newly enacted law, Act 12-429 (Insurance Fraud), makes insurance fraud a felony crime. It will be...
Farmers Raises Rates in Alabama; Pulls Wind Coverage on Coastal Rental Policies
Aug 2 2012 // One of Alabama’s largest homeowners’ insurers is raising rates on property insurance by as much as 35 percent per policy while dropping some 2,900 rental properties along the state coastline as part of plan to...
Alabama Bans Texting While Driving Aug. 1
Jul 30 2012 // Starting Wednesday, texting, emailing and instant messaging while driving will become illegal in Alabama, with violators facing fines and possibly higher insurance rates. That is, if they don’t have a wreck...
Wholesaler Socius Opens Alabama Office; Names Stickley as VP
Jul 24 2012 // San Francisco-based Socius Insurance Services Inc., a management liability and property/casualty insurance wholesaler, has opened an office in Birmingham, Alabama, and named Hank Stickley as vice president. Stickley comes...
Fire Closes Alabama Insurance Department
Jul 20 2012 // The Alabama Department of Insurance will remain closed until at least Monday due to a power outage caused by a small fire in Montgomery’s RSA Tower on Thursday morning. The 23-story tower, owned and operated by the...
New Law on BP Oil Spill Promises States More in Restoration Monies
Jul 16 2012 // U.S. Gulf Coast states have a higher stake in the amount of money the U.S. government can wring out of BP Plc for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill due to a new law that would divert billions of dollars in potential BP...
Tropical Storm Creates New Beach on Alabama Coast
Jul 11 2012 // Within the span of a week, the Gulf built a beach in front of most of the rock wall used to close Katrina Cut. The wall was constructed in 2010 using money provided by BP during the oil spill. The goal was to close a...
BancorpSouth Insurance Acquires Alabama Agency, Securance Group
Jul 3 2012 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, has agreed to acquire the assets of The Securance Group, Inc., an independent property/casualty and life/health insurance agency headquartered in...
Alabama Readies Auto Insurance Verification
Jul 2 2012 // Alabama’s Revenue Department is launching an online system that will allow county license plate officials to verify whether a vehicle has liability insurance. The Legislature passed a requirement last year that the...
Ala. Gov. Bentley Touts New Homeowners’ Insurance Laws
Jul 2 2012 // Alabama’s governor is promoting new laws designed to make homeowners’ insurance more affordable after hurricanes drove up prices. Gov. Robert Bentley, who owns a vacation home on the coast, made...
Tropical Storm Debby Heads for Florida Coast, Spares Louisiana
Jun 24 2012 // Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Alabama’s Whitehaven Insurance
Jun 20 2012 // Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1994, Whitehaven Insurance...
Alabama Readies Online Auto Insurance Verification System
Jun 19 2012 // Alabama’s Revenue Department is launching an online system that will allow county license plate officials to verify whether a vehicle has liability insurance. State Revenue Commissioner Julie Magee said the Insurance...
