Latest Alabama Headlines
All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Ala. Troopers Issued 26,126 Tickets During Five-Day Crackdown
Aug 20 2007 // Alabama state troopers issued 26,126 tickets in a five-day statewide crackdown last week aimed at reducing speeds and preventing highway deaths. The troopers wrote 11,931 tickets for speeding and 4,995 for seat belt or...
Ala. Gov. Disapproves of Subsidized Health Insurance for State Senate
Aug 16 2007 // Governor Bob Riley is renewing his call for the State Employees Insurance Board to reject state senators’ attempts to give themselves taxpayer-subsidized health insurance. “First they gave themselves a huge pay...
Officials Find Evidence of Arson, Theft at Alabama School
Aug 15 2007 // A fire that damaged the office of an elementary school in Fairfield, Ala., was intentionally set, State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said last week. “There is evidence of a break-in and theft, as well as the presence of an...
Ala. Outdoorsman Facing $1 Million Judgment Apparently Flees U.S.
Jul 30 2007 // Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, a flamboyant Alabama outdoorsman who was fitted with an electronic monitoring device and faces an order to pay more than $1 million in an insurance fraud case, has fled and may be in...
Ala. Judge Appoints Prosecutors in Katrina Insurance Case
Jul 30 2007 // A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. In an order made public July...
Study Says Alabama Tied for Second in Most Uninsured Motorists
Jul 23 2007 // A national study suggests Alabama’s mandatory auto insurance law has had little effect on the number of uninsured driver on state roads since the Legislature enacted it in 1999. The Insurance Research Council, a...
Chertoff, Governors Appeal for Coast Residents to get Storm Ready
Jul 2 2007 // Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined governors from Mississippi and Alabama in appealing for Gulf Coast residents to get prepared for the height of hurricane season. Some 400 delegates to the three-day...
Hurricane Exit Plans for Alabama’s Elderly, Sick Upgraded
Jun 21 2007 // Some of the people whose lives are at stake during a hurricane are lying helpless in nursing homes and hospitals on the Alabama coast, where emergency computer and phone networks have been enhanced to help them when a...
Alabama lawmakers raise auto insurance limits, but delay legislation for statewide building code
Jun 18 2007 // The Alabama Legislature adjourned after giving final approval to a key insurance measure that will increase the state’s auto liability minimum limits from 20/40/10 to 25/50/25. Legislators deferred to the 2008...
Ala. State Fire Marshal Joins State Forester’s Fireworks Ban
Jun 14 2007 // State Forester Linda Casey issued an emergency drought declaration temporarily banning discharging fireworks in 33 Alabama counties. Alabama State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk has joined in the issuance. “The situation in...
Last-Minute Resolution Could Give Ala. Senators Cheaper Insurance
Jun 13 2007 // The session of the Alabama Legislature that started with lawmakers giving themselves a 61 percent pay raise ended with senators passing a resolution that could give them a reduced rate on state employee health insurance...
