Latest Alabama Headlines
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Alabama’s Protective Life Acquires United Investors Life
Sep 14 2010 // Protective Life Corporation, of Birmingham, Ala., today announced that its principal subsidiary, Protective Life Insurance Company, has signed an agreement to acquire United Investors Life Insurance Company from Liberty...
Gulf States’ Post-Katrina Building Codes Get Low Marks
Sep 6 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building codes in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to the Institute for Business and Home Safety. “While there have...
How Katrina Changed Markets
Sep 6 2010 // Industry Came Through Five years after Hurricane Katrina lashed the coast and sunk New Orleans, it is true that the area has largely recovered, but it is not the same Gulf Coast it once was. The same is true for the...
Hurricane Katrina Changed the Market in Gulf States
Sep 6 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls. “Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
Alabama Stresses Disaster Preparation
Sep 2 2010 // Alabama is observing National Preparedness Month with a series of activities starting on the first day of the month. Gov. Bob Riley says the events begin Wednesday with Be Ready Day in Birmingham’s Linn Park....
Authorities Set Trial Date in Alabama Katrina Fraud Case
Sep 2 2010 // An Alabama woman is set for trial on a charges she conspired to defraud the federal government by preying on Hurricane Katrina victims who needed their properties rebuilt. The government seeks a judgment of $62,500 against...
5 Years After Katrina Gulf Coast Building Codes Still Inadequate
Aug 30 2010 // Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated 1,300 tragic deaths as well as $41.1 billion in insured losses across six states. Louisiana and Mississippi suffered the brunt of Katrina’s wrath followed by...
Hurricane Katrina Changed the Market in Gulf States
Aug 27 2010 // Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls. “Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single...
Report Suggests Gulf Coast Properties Not Much Safer Since Katrina
Aug 18 2010 // Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building code requirements in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to a new report from the Institute for Business and Home...
Alabama Gets $1 Million Flood Aid
Aug 16 2010 // Alabama will get some $1 million in federal cash for the city of Albertville’s recovery from April’s tornado and storms. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of...
Alabama Becomes First State to Sue BP, Others for Gulf Oil ‘Catastrophe’
Aug 15 2010 // Alabama is suing BP Plc, Transocean and Halliburton for “catastrophic harm” caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state’s attorney general said Friday. Alabama is the first state to sue BP for...
Alabama Buys Hurricane Policy
Aug 9 2010 // Alabama will pay $800,000 annually for three years to an insurance company as a hedge against heavy damage to state property on the coast from a major hurricane. Under the deal that took effect last month, global insurer...
Huntsville Becomes 6th Alabama City to Ban Texting While Driving
Jul 26 2010 // Huntsville has become the sixth Alabama city to ban sending text messages while driving. Beginning Sept. 20, it will be illegal to send text messages or check e-mail while driving in the Huntsville city limits. The...
Claims Fund Chief Says BP Stalling on Payments to Oil Disaster Victims
Jul 26 2010 // British energy giant BP Plc is holding up payments to economic victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of a $20 billion compensation fund, said Saturday. “I have a concern that BP is...
Alabama Beach Furniture Stores, Designers Among BP Oil Victims
Jul 26 2010 // In 2006, Worldwide Interiors, a Canal Road furniture importer, had a banner year with sales of $520,000, including $90,000 that June. Last year, amid south Baldwin County’s deflated real estate market, sales dipped...
Medicus Receives Approval to Insure Alabama Physicians
Jul 21 2010 // Medicus Insurance Co. received its approval from the Alabama Department of Insurance to offer coverage to the physicians and surgeons in the state. Medicus’ rates and form filing was approved July 14, 2010. Medicus...
Alabama Insurance Regulator Rejects Offer to Run Louisiana Citizens
Jul 15 2010 // An Alabama insurance regulator has turned aside an offer to become head of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort. The Louisiana Department of Insurance says Charles Angell has decided to stay in Alabama. He had...
CNA Opens Alabama Branch
Jul 9 2010 // CNA Financial Corp. has opened its newest branch office in Birmingham, Alabama. The office is one of five new branches the global business insurer has opened or will open within the past year. Kent Skidmore, recently...
Alabama Residents Sue Firms Over Coal Ash Dumping in Tennessee
Jun 29 2010 // A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 64 Perry County, Ala. residents against the companies operating a landfill receiving coal ash from a spill in Tennessee. The lawsuit filed in Perry County Circuit Court is against the...
Cyclist’s Death Spurs Push for Alabama Road Safety
Jun 25 2010 // Before she was killed cycling in Tennessee last month, Sharon Bayler lobbied Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle to adopt a “Complete Streets” policy. Now some of Bayler’s friends are carrying on her campaign...
