Latest Alabama Headlines
All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Funeral Services Scheduled for Ron Hanna in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Mar 1 2006 // Ron Hanna, 55, manager of the Alabama Insurance Underwriting Association passed away Feb. 24. Hanna was a native of Hattiesburg, Miss. and was a resident of Gulf Shores, Ala. Hanna joined the Insurance Department soon...
AIIA Supports Bill to Lengthen Licensing
Feb 23 2006 // Alabama HB227 which would lengthen the licensing period for insurance producers, service representatives and adjusters from the present one year, to two or more years and would increase the 12-hour continuing education...
AIIA Supports Alabama Insurance Fraud Bill HB627
Feb 22 2006 // Alabama HB627, defining insurance fraud and making it easier for Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell to join in with neighboring states to crack down on fraud, has gained the support of the Alabama Independent Insurance...
Former La. Commissioner Joins Adams and Reese
Feb 21 2006 // The Louisiana-based law firm of Adams and Reese LLP announced that former Insurance Commissioner of Louisiana, J. Robert Wooley joined the firm effective Feb. 20, 2006. Adams and Reese, which has offices in Baton Rouge and...
Disaster Assistance Outreach Unit Comes to Robertsdale, Ala.
Feb 21 2006 // A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Disaster Assistance Outreach unit will visit Robertsdale on Thursday, Feb. 23-28. The unit will be closed on Sunday. It will open on Thursday at 11 a.m. and will be open 8 a.m....
SBA Loan Application Necessary for Assistance in Ala. Recovery
Feb 17 2006 // The U.S Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) urges Hurricane Katrina survivors who registered for disaster assistance to complete and return the loan application they received...
Commissioner Bell: 10th Alabama Church Fire ‘Unrelated’ to Previous 9
Feb 16 2006 // It’s likely that the tenth fire at a the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church near the Mississippi line was started by an arsonist whose actions are totally unrelated those of the arsonists responsible for any of the...
Ala. Commissioner: ‘End Air Force One Policy’
Feb 16 2006 // An effective National Disaster Program has to be found so that if there is a catastrophe, we won’t have to rely on an “Air Force One Policy,” in which Air Force One flies in and brings us $20 billion,...
10th Alabama Church Torched, Authorities Suspect ‘Bosom Buddies’
Feb 13 2006 // Investigators believe a pair of men in their 20s or 30s, likely “bosom buddies,” are responsible for a string of church fires in rural Alabama, as authorities confirmed the latest blaze at a Baptist church on...
Services, Funeral Held in Birmingham, Ala. for Bill Worley
Feb 13 2006 // Services and a funeral were held Sunday in Birmingham, Ala. for Bill Worley, founder and former owner of the Anchor Insurance Agency in Hoover, Ala. Worley is the father of Lisa Worley, a former Alabama Independent...
Insurance Companies Offer Rewards in Ala. Church Fires
Feb 10 2006 // Two companies insuring several rural churches burned in Bibb County and west Alabama are offering rewards that could total more than $77,000, in addition to state and federal rewards totaling $10,000. Five church fires...
Burned Ala. Churches File Claims as Fires Ruled Arson
Feb 8 2006 // The five rural Alabama Baptist churches either damaged or destroyed in fires last week were able to begin filing insurance claims Feb. 6 after all the fires were formally ruled arsons by the state insurance commissioner,...
Hurricane Center Upgrades Tropical Storm Cindy to Hurricane Status
Jan 27 2006 // Tropical Storm Cindy has been upgraded to hurricane status by the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Accumulated data analyzed by NHC indicates that Cindy was “a relatively short-lived tropical cyclone,” but...
Hundreds Evacuated as Train Burns After Collision in Ala.
Jan 20 2006 // Schools were open but about 500 residents were unable to return to their homes Jan. 19 after a train carrying sodium cyanide caught fire in a collision with another train near Lincoln, Ala. Jerome Hand, a spokesman for the...
Ala. County Commissioners Threatened, Reverse Vote to Buy Terrorist Insurance
Jan 12 2006 // Two weeks after voting to spend $7,000 a year for terrorism insurance, commissioners in a rural Alabama county have responded to a more immediate threat: angry voters. The Clarke County Commission has voted unanimously to...
Ala., Miss., La. Black Lawmakers Mull Hurricane Recovery Policy
Jan 4 2006 // Black lawmakers from Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama say the three states should work together – rather than against each other – on issues such as hurricane recovery. “We can all empathize with each...
Ex-Vesta Insurance Adjuster Accused of Fraud in Ala.
Jan 2 2006 // A former Vesta Insurance adjuster has been indicted on forgery and mail fraud charges alleging that she made fictitious claims for more than $220,000, the U.S. attorney’s office in Alabama said. Felicia Michelle...
People & Places
Jan 2 2006 // Brent Jenkins Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined...
People
Jan 1 2006 // Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at...
FEMA Awards $3.7M to State of Alabama for Disaster Mitigation
Jan 1 2006 // The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a total of $3.7 million in Hazard Mitigation Grant funds for disaster mitigation projects to the Town of Brookside, the...
