All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 8 2025 // Starting this spring, surplus lines brokers in Alabama must file quarterly reports showing all surplus lines transactions, the state Department of Insurance said this week.The rule is in keeping with state law and took...
Jan 2 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services has named Johnny Osborne senior vice president for its Americas division. Based in Huntsville, Alabama, Osborne Osborne will open the Alabama market for Alliant, further expanding the...
Dec 30 2024 // VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said.Meek, 16, was hurt on Dec. 19 while on a street in Vestavia Hills, a suburb of Birmingham....
Dec 23 2024 // DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot...
Dec 5 2024 // Austin Tanner, a claims adjuster and aspiring country singer from Alabama, has been confined mostly to his home and must wear an ankle monitor after he violated the terms of his bail bond and traveled to the Country Music...
Dec 2 2024 // An Alabama public adjuster known as an aspiring country music singer has been re-arrested after reportedly violating the terms of his bond from an arrest earlier this year.Austin Tanner, of Orange Beach, also appears to be...
Nov 25 2024 // Higginbotham, an independent insurance and human resources firm based in Texas, has joined forces with Fitts Agency in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, further expanding Higginbotham’s presence in the state. Fitts CEO Forrest...
Nov 12 2024 // Nonresident surplus lines brokers working in Alabama, like their in-state brethren, must secure a $50,000 fidelity bond to be licensed in the state, starting Jan. 1.The Alabama Department of Insurance posted the bulletin...
Oct 25 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge has appointed a mediator in the long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.Montgomery Circuit Judge James Anderson named retired Circuit...
Oct 18 2024 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency is expanding again, this time with the addition of Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Hull & Associates, an agency that has specialized in finding coverage for student housing in and around the home...
Sep 18 2024 // Alabama’s wind-mitigation grant program has resulted in 50,000 fortified homes over the last decade, outpacing most other coastal states that offer similar programs.The Alabama Department of Insurance announced the...
Aug 29 2024 // MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation, the U.S....
Aug 26 2024 // A high school football player in Alabama died after he suffered a brain injury in a Friday night game, according to multiple news reports.Caden Tellier, whose mom once held an Alabama insurance producer license, played...
Aug 19 2024 // NEW BROCKTON, Ala. (AP) — A 14-year-old football player in Alabama died Tuesday after collapsing during afternoon practice.Semaj Wilkins, a freshman at New Brockton High School, suffered a medical emergency early in...
Aug 19 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The family of a man killed by a police dog in Montgomery, Alabama, has agreed to settle its federal lawsuit against the police officer who handled the animal, but their lawyers said Friday that...
Jul 30 2024 // An Alabama woman was arrested after she was indicted by a grand jury, charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud. Allison Dawn Benton Davis, 53, of Dothan, was charged with 11 counts of insurance fraud, according to...
Jun 25 2024 // The U.S. Department of Labor has fined an Alabama mobile home manufacturer more than $81,000 after a worker without fall protection slipped and fell to his death last November.The department’s Occupational Safety and...
Jun 20 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama insurance producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaving threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over the...
May 30 2024 // Is the installation of an in-ground trampoline considered landscaping work, covered by a landscaper’s liability insurance policy?Artificial intelligence programs suggest that it is. But human judges with the 11th...
May 29 2024 // The latest community left with shattered homes and no power was the tiny Kentucky town of Charleston, which took a direct hit Sunday night from a tornado that the governor said appeared to be on the ground for 40 miles (64...