Southeast’s Top Stories: Disasters That Happened and 1 That Didn’t December 23, 2010 By Andrew G. Simpson The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the...
Alabama Tornado Survivors Still Coping 10 Years Later December 22, 2010 By Katherine K. Lee Whitney Crowder doesn’t remember the day her father died. What happened Dec. 16, 2000, has gone down in state history:...
Trial Ordered for Tennessee Trooper Claiming Politics Behind Demotion December 22, 2010 A federal appeals court has ruled a jury will hear complaints from a Tennessee highway patrolman who claimed discrimination based...
Scientist Alleges Religious Bias Cost Him Job at U of Kentucky December 21, 2010 By Dylan Lovan An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers’ belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from...
Insurance Vital to Alabama Coast Long-Term Plan, Says Commission December 21, 2010 By Andrew G. Simpson Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help...
Kentucky Builders, Insurer Partner in Workers’ Compensation Program December 20, 2010 A builders’ association is teaming with Kentucky’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to offer a new workers’ compensation program to its...
Florida Case Is Next Test for Health Care Law December 20, 2010 By Melissa Nelson Attorneys for 20 states fighting the new federal health care law told a judge last week it will expand the...
Deer Crashes on Rise in Alabama December 20, 2010 By Tom Smith Josh Dodd was traveling home last year, the same Alabama route he has taken countless times on Lauderdale 7, when...
Georgia Insurers, Incoming Commissioner Plan Fraud Crackdown December 17, 2010 Georgia’s insurance industry is teaming up with state authorities to launch an ambitious effort to crack down on the rising...
Kentucky to Start Fining Motorists Caught Texting December 17, 2010 If you text while you drive in Kentucky, prepare to start paying fines if you’re caught. That’s the message from...