Latest Alabama Headlines
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Alabama Jury Awards Damages in Diamond-Swap Case
Nov 25 2014 // A Montgomery County jury has awarded a woman more than $30,000 in damages after she accused a jeweler of swapping a diamond she wanted to re-purpose with one of lesser value. WSFA-TV reported that the Alabama jury awarded...
Alabama Rejects $1M Claim by Parents of Slain Auburn University Student
Nov 14 2014 // An Alabama state board this week rejected a $1 million claim filed by the parents of a slain Auburn University student, who said their daughter might still be alive if the university had maintained its own police force at...
Rock Pile Built with BP Spill Money Saves Alabama Island for Now
Nov 11 2014 // Nature and a multimillion dollar rock pile built in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill have healed a large barrier island nine years after it was sliced in two by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina swamped Alabama’s...
3 Birmingham Brokers Join EPIC in Alabama As Agency Principals
Nov 11 2014 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, announced that Crawford McInnis, Brian Tanner and Wilson Long have joined the firm as principals in...
Professor, Former Agent, Adjuster to Head New Alabama Insurance Center
Nov 9 2014 // Dr. Lars Powell has been named the inaugural director of the newly-created Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama. Powell is a professor of finance and holds the Whitbeck-Beyer...
UnitedHealthcare to Join Alabama Health Insurance Exchange
Oct 28 2014 // Alabama consumers will see more competition when the health insurance marketplace opens next month for its second year. United Healthcare took a cautious approach to the marketplaces the first year and chose not to...
Florida’s AssuredPartners Acquires Alabama’s Turner & Hamrick
Oct 23 2014 // Agency acquirer AssuredPartners Inc. of St. Mary, Florida, has purchased the assets of Turner & Hamrick, LLC, headquartered in Troy, Alabama. The Alabama agency specializes in insurance for the trucking industry, in...
Alabama Trio Convicted in $2 Million Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fraud
Oct 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors said three people have been convicted of fraudulently filing Gulf Oil Spill Fund loss claims. Officials said 53-year-old Marcella Truss, her 42-year-old husband Martee Davis and the woman’s...
Slain Alabama University Student’s Family Seeks $1M Award
Oct 14 2014 // The parents of slain Auburn University student Lauren Burk are asking the Alabama Board of Adjustment to award them $1 million because they say Auburn did not provide adequate security. Jim Burk and Viviane Guerchon told...
Alabama Man Urged to Return BP Claim Payment
Oct 14 2014 // The former FBI chief appointed to investigate the BP oil spill claims process is seeking the return of nearly $240,000 from an Alabama man and his maritime business. Louis Freeh, in a federal court filing, says the man...
Alabama Plans Crackdown on Misclassified Employees
Oct 7 2014 // Alabama’s Labor Department has agreed to work with the U.S. Department of Labor to crack down on businesses that classify people as independent contractors when they are really regular employees. Alabama Labor...
Alabama Store Owner to Plead in Jewelry Insurance Fraud
Oct 6 2014 // The former owner of a Mountain Brook, Alabama jewelry store has agreed to plead guilty in a missing diamonds case. Court documents filed last Friday show Joseph Harold Gandy of Vestavia Hills has agreed to plead guilty to...
Alabama’s Lessons from Hurricane Ivan at 10th Anniversary
Oct 6 2014 // Last month marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, one of the costliest tropical storms to ever hit the U.S. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sept. 16, 2004, as a Category 3 storm. The storm also...
Alabama Reports 69 Fire Deaths Already This Year
Oct 3 2014 // The state fire marshal says 69 people have died in fires in Alabama so far this year. According to Fire Marshal Ed Paulk, 28 of those deaths occurred in January. Gov. Robert Bentley has declared October as “Fire...
Alabama Gas Explosion Heightens Concern Over Cast-Iron Pipe Corrosion
Sep 29 2014 // When Darryle Brown woke up in the dark hours of an early December morning, he heard an explosion. Suddenly, Brown was on fire and trapped underneath an eight-inch-thick concrete slab – the floor of his...
Mississippi, Alabama Homes Recognized As Storm Fortified
Sep 24 2014 // The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has recognized three South Mississippi home builders for building homes that are more disaster-resistant. IBHS also recognized three homes in south Alabama. In January,...
Judge Keeps Alabama Newspaper from Publishing Utility’s Safety Plan
Sep 23 2014 // A state court judge sided with Alabama Gas Corp. and blocked the Montgomery Advertiser from publishing information about the utility’s plan for gas line safety, which the Alabama Public Service Commission released...
Alabama City Employs Sting Operation on Uber Drivers
Sep 19 2014 // Tuscaloosa, Alabama police are using undercover operations to nab drivers with the Uber ride-sharing service. Police said Wednesday a two-night sting last week resulted in a 50-year-old Mississippi woman getting tickets...
Building Stronger, Other Lessons from Hurricane Ivan at 10th Anniversary
Sep 18 2014 // This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Ivan, one of the costliest tropical storms to ever hit the U.S. Ivan came ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Sept. 16, 2004, as a Category 3 storm. The storm also...
Alabama Man Refiles Circumcision Lawsuit
Sep 11 2014 // An Alabama man has refiled his lawsuit claiming a botched circumcision led to the amputation of his penis. An attorney for Johnny Lee Banks Jr. filed an amended complaint this past Monday. It comes about a month after a...
