Section 27-5-6 - "Casualty insurance" defined(a) "Casualty insurance" includes:(1) VEHICLE INSURANCE. Insurance against loss of, or damage to, any land vehicle or aircraft, or any draft or riding animal or to property while contained therein or thereon or being loaded or unloaded therein or therefrom from any hazard or cause and against any loss, liability, or expense resulting from, or incidental to, ownership, maintenance or use of any such vehicle, aircraft or animal, together with insurance against accidental death or accidental injury to individuals, including the named insured, while in, entering, alighting from, adjusting, repairing, cranking or caused by being struck by a vehicle, aircraft or draft or riding animal, if such insurance is issued as an incidental part of insurance on the vehicle, aircraft or draft or riding animal;(2) LIABILITY INSURANCE. Insurance against legal liability for the death, injury or disability of any human being or for damage to property, and provision of medical, hospital, surgical and disability benefits to injured persons, and funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries, or personal representatives of persons killed, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, when issued as an incidental coverage with, or supplemental to, liability insurance;(3) WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY. Insurance of the obligations accepted by, imposed upon or assumed by employers under law for death, disablement, or injury of employees;(4) BURGLARY AND THEFT. Insurance against loss or damage by burglary, theft, larceny, robbery, forgery, fraud, vandalism, malicious mischief, confiscation, or wrongful conversion, disposal or concealment, or from any attempt at any of the foregoing, including supplemental coverage for medical, hospital, surgical and funeral expense incurred by the named insured or any other person as a result of bodily injury during the commission of a burglary, robbery or theft by another; also, insurance against loss of or damage to moneys, coins, bullion, securities, notes, drafts, acceptances, or any other valuable papers and documents resulting from any cause;(5) PERSONAL PROPERTY FLOATER. Insurance upon personal effects against loss or damage from any cause under a personal property floater;(6) GLASS. Insurance against loss or damage to glass, including its lettering, ornamentation and fittings;(7) BOILER AND MACHINERY. Insurance against any liability and loss, or damage to, property or interest resulting from accidents to, or explosions of, boilers, pipes, pressure containers, machinery or apparatus and to make inspection of and issue certificates of inspection upon boilers, machinery, and apparatus of any kind, whether or not insured;(8) LEAKAGE AND FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT. Insurance against loss or damage to any property or interest caused by the breakage or leakage of sprinklers, hoses, pumps, and other fire-extinguishing equipment or apparatus, water pipes or containers or by water entering through leaks or openings in buildings and insurance against loss or damage to such sprinklers, hoses, pumps and other fire-extinguishing equipment or apparatus;(9) CREDIT. Insurance against loss or damage resulting from failure of debtors to pay their obligations to the insured;(10) MALPRACTICE. Insurance against legal liability of the insured and against loss, damage or expense incidental to a claim of such liability and including medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefits to injured persons, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, arising out of the death, injury, or disablement of any person or arising out of damage to the economic interest of any person as the result of negligence in rendering expert, fiduciary, or professional service;(11) LIVESTOCK. Insurance against loss or damage to livestock and services of a veterinarian for such animals;(12) ELEVATORS. Insurance against loss of, or damage to, any property of the insured resulting from the ownership, maintenance or use of elevators, except loss or damage by fire, and to make inspections of and issue certificates of inspection upon elevators;(13) ENTERTAINMENTS. Insurance indemnifying the producer of any motion picture, television, radio, theatrical, sport, spectacle, entertainment or similar production, event, or exhibition against loss from interruption, postponement, or cancellation thereof due to death, accidental injury, or sickness of performers, participants, directors, or other principals; and(14) MISCELLANEOUS. Insurance against any other kind of loss, damage, or liability properly, a subject of insurance and not within any other kind of insurance as defined in this chapter, if such insurance is not disapproved by the commissioner as being contrary to law or public policy.(b) Provision of medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefits and of coverage against accidental death or injury, as incidental to and part of other insurance as stated under subdivisions (a) (1), (a) (2), (a) (4), and (a) (10) of this section shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the same kind of insurance to which it is so incidental and shall not be subject to provisions of this title applicable to life or disability insurances.Ala. Code § 27-5-6 (1975)
Acts 1971, No. 407, p. 707, §91.