By Erica Thomas, managing editor
TRUSSVILLE The Trussville City Council met for a short regular meeting on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Councilor Perry Cook was not in attendance for the meeting.
The council approved changes to the city’s public records request policy. The changes will add charges to some document requests in order to offset the costs of the time and preparation of such requests.
“This actually brings us more in line really with the city of Hoover,” Councilor Jaime Anderson said.
The changes add a charge of $50 for digitally standard zoning certification letters, $100 for detailed certification zoning letters, including open building and/or zoning code violations, $200 for complex certification zoning letters, including open building and/or zoning code violations, approved site plans, variances, ordinances, resolutions, special permits, conditional and/or special use permits, zoning cases, certificate of occupancy road project plans. The changes also increase
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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama recently predicted that the Alabama Supreme Court would refuse to recognize bad faith claims in the context of reinsurance disputes if it was presented with the question. The district court therefore granted a reinsurer’s motion to dismiss several bad faith claims against it.
Alabama Municipal Insurance Corporation (“AMIC”) sued Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. for purportedly underpaying several reinsurance claims by approximately $1.9 million. AMIC asserted bad faith claims as part of its suit. Munich Re moved to dismiss those claims, arguing Alabama does not (or rather, would not) recognize bad faith in the context of reinsurance disputes.
Case of Alabama police officer who slammed Indian grandfather to ground settled for $1.75 million
Updated Apr 08, 2021;
An Indian man who was injured in 2015 during an encounter with a Madison police officer has settled his federal lawsuit against the officer’s insurance carrier for $1.75 million.
Sureshbai Patel’s attorney, Hank Sherrod, announced the settlement today, which means that Patel’s case has been formally dismissed.
On Feb. 6, 2015, Patel, then 57, was out for a walk near his son’s home in Madison. A citizen of India, Patel was visiting his son and daughter-in-law and their child.
Video showed the moment that day when Patel was contacted by two Madison police officers, a new officer going through field training and his training officer, Eric Parker. According to Madison police at the time, they were responding to a call regarding someone looking into garages.