Latest Alabama Headlines
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Alabama Outdoorsman Must Pay $1 Million for Bogus Katrina Claim
Nov 12 2007 // A federal judge has ordered jailed Ala. outdoorsman Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV to pay more than $1 million to an insurance firm that accused him of filing a bogus post-Hurricane Katrina damage claim for a...
Alabama-Based Alfa Mutual to Buy Rest of Alfa Corp. for $840 Million
Nov 8 2007 // Life insurance company Alfa Corp. has agreed to be acquired by its majority owners, Alfa Mutual Insurance Co. and Alfa Mutual Fire Insurance Co., for about $840 million. Alfa Mutual will pay $22 per share for shares of...
Fla. Couple Arrested for Allegedly Burning Residence
Nov 2 2007 // A Crestview, Fla., couple is facing felony charges stemming from the suspicion that they intentionally set their home on fire. Zachary Lee Dalton and his wife Kellie Elizabeth Hahn, both 24, were arrested Oct. 31 by the...
Head of Ala. Teachers Group Concerned About Coastal Insurance Bill
Oct 22 2007 // The head of Alabama’s teachers’ organization is concerned that legislation designed to improve the availability of insurance along the Alabama coast could have another effect – eliminating tax dollars for...
No Consensus for Alabama Special Session on Coastal Insurance
Oct 2 2007 // Alabama legislators unveiled a law designed to help the Gulf Coast real estate industry and coastal homeowners hit by high insurance rates but Gov. Bob Riley said there is no current consensus to address it in a special...
Scruggs Asks Alabama Judge to Throw Out Katrina-Related Charge
Sep 30 2007 // Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs has asked a federal judge to throw out a charge accusing him of criminal contempt in a dispute related to insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina. In court papers made public last...
Alabama Hearing Highlights Catastrophe Plan Options
Sep 26 2007 // Whether the nation needs a federal or other governmental program to deal with insurance costs and availability for natural catastrophes in U.S. coastal states was the central question at a public hearing in Mobile, Ala.,...
Alabama Residents Back in Homes After Train Leaves Tracks
Sep 26 2007 // A train derailment in Flomaton, Ala., over the weekend caused some anxiety and evacuations after authorities learned that the 66-car train was carrying anhydrous ammonia. The derailment that occurred after 9 p.m. on Sept....
Alabama realtors call for coastal insurance relief
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Alabama realtors call for coastal insurance relief
Sep 24 2007 // Owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums and insurance legislation to make coverage available and affordable on the coast...
Fire Alert Lifted for Remaining 17 Alabama Counties
Sep 24 2007 // Alabama State Forester Linda Casey lifted a fire alert for 17 counties in the northwest part of the state last week. The affected counties are: Lauderdale, Limestone, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan, Marion, Winston,...
La. Commissioner to Co-Host Hearing on Coastal Insurance Issues
Sep 21 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon and state regulators from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina will host a public hearing Sept. 24 on insurance issues affecting the Gulf Coast. The event is...
Commissioners to Hold Coastal Issues Public Hearing in Alabama
Sep 21 2007 // National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) President and Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell, along with other members of the NAIC’s Southeastern Zone, is holding a public hearing to address...
Ala. Agencies Cooperating to Boost Trooper Patrols on Deadly Roads
Sep 13 2007 // The Alabama Department of Transportation and the Alabama Department of Public Safety are cooperating to boost state trooper patrols on roads where there have been a high number of deadly crashes during the past few years,...
Alabama, Florida Officials Share Costs on Hurricane Evacuation Route
Sep 12 2007 // Alabama and Florida officials started a jointly funded project this week that will provide a four-lane hurricane evacuation route from the Florida Panhandle to Interstate 65 in Alabama. It’s a rare case in which a...
Ala. Coast Condo Industry Pushes for Action on Rising Insurance Rates
Sep 4 2007 // As Labor Day tourists take an end-of-summer beach trip, owners of thousands of condominiums that line the Alabama Gulf Coast say they’re getting burned by soaring insurance premiums. Insurance legislation aimed at...
Fire Makes Mess of Several Hundred Port-A-Potties in Alabama
Aug 29 2007 // Between 300 and 350 yellow rental port-a-potties in neat rows were melted, deformed and charred in a Theodore, Ala., fire, causing damage estimated at more than $200,000 at the Pot of Gold company, authorities said. Joel...
Alabama to Conduct Three-Year Study of School Bus Seat Belts
Aug 22 2007 // Students now starting kindergarten will be in the third grade when a state task force created after a deadly school bus wreck in Huntsville wraps up a study on whether Alabama school buses should have seat belts. The panel...
Ala.-Based Alfa Buyout Plan Opposed in Shareholders’ Suit
Aug 20 2007 // Eight shareholders have sued to block Montgomery, Ala-based Alfa Corp.’s $639 million proposal to buy out minority shareholders, claiming it’s an unfair price. The suit was filed in the Chancery Court of...
Rural Alabama Homeowners Still Waiting for Katrina Housing Aid
Aug 20 2007 // Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, more than 1,000 storm victims in parts of Alabama’s rural south Mobile County are still waiting for housing funds to get out of trailers or damaged, patched-over...
