A federal jury awarded $70,000 to a Louisiana financial executive who sued Boston-based Lexington Insurance Co., seeking more than $750,000 for his Mobile Bay, Ala., vacation home that crumbled under Hurricane Katrina’s winds and waves. The homeowner, Richard Preis of …
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 Mississippi/Alabama Hurricane Conference at the Imperial Palace Casino …
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 storm threatens …
With Katrina memories still fresh, Alabama Gulf Coast residents have begun stockpiling ice, water, food and other supplies just in case this hurricane season turns ugly. FEMA also will have disaster relief supplies stored at Maxwell Air Force Base in …
Facing hundreds of hurricane-damage lawsuits on the Mississippi coast, State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. cited back-to-back years of storm losses in announcing Friday it will not renew coverage for about 2,600 policyholders mainly in Alabama’s beach resorts. Bloomington, Ill.-based …
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered into mediation dozens of lawsuits policyholders filed against insurance companies after Hurricane Katrina. Several of the cases sent to mediation, which accuse the insurance companies of denying their claims, are involved in recent settlement …
