Tuscaloosa litigation and insurance committee to schedule special meeting for several insurance renewals

Members of the Tuscaloosa City Litigation and Insurance Committee discussed holding a special meeting between now and March to review multiple insurance renewals, including workers' compensation, professional liability for the city attorney's office and the city’s main general liability/property policy. Scott, an insurance staff member, told the committee the next regularly scheduled committee meeting is March 31, 2026, after a December 30, 2025 meeting was canceled for the holidays.

Scott said several policies will come up for renewal before the committee next meets. "Sometime before February 1, we will have our ... workers compensation policy," he said, adding that workers' compensation was "around $400,000 last year." He said the city attorney's professional-liability policy (referred to in the meeting as the NDAA liability policy) was $8,300 last year and that the city's primary general liability/property coverage is about $1,900,000. Scott also noted a mid-March flood policy renewal for the amphitheater with a premium of about $17,000 and mentioned there is "an additional ... policy that's more security sensitive, that renews this fall that we typically brief council executive session."

A committee member moved to call a special session to review pricing when quotes are available. "I think I'd like to make a motion for a special call session sometime between now and March," the committee member said. Committee members and staff discussed aiming for early to mid-January so staff could "shoot the gap of all these renewals," and Scott said he would coordinate with other staff, including Johnson, to schedule the meeting. Scott described the internal work: Christina Houghton prepares a detailed spreadsheet and coordinates renewals for staff review.

The meeting recorded two formal, routine actions: approval of the minutes and a motion to adjourn. No formal vote on the special meeting date was recorded; participants agreed staff would set a date after pricing information is available. The committee did not take any other binding action during the discussion.