All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2026 // Fraud investigations in two Southeastern states have led to the arrest or administrative leave for three public safety officers.In Alabama, two University of Alabama at Birmingham police officers have been placed on leave...
Jan 29 2026 // An Alabama insurance agent running for governor is challenging U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to seek the office, accusing the football coach-turned-politician of not meeting the legal requirement to have...
Jan 28 2026 // In March of 2025 a well-known dentist’s office exploded in the town of Evergreen, Alabama, near the Florida line.Today, the owner of that office, a dentist described as “very successful” and a “very...
Jan 21 2026 // A new report from the Alabama Department of Insurance shows claims litigation and big verdicts are on the rise in the state, inflating loss costs for insurers and putting upward pressure on auto and commercial liability...
Dec 31 2025 // Property insurers in Alabama will no longer be able to cancel or non-renew policies because of natural disasters or because of losses that don’t affect that line of business, the Alabama Department of Insurance...
Dec 23 2025 // Regulators in two Southeastern states will hold hearings early next year, one on a proposed steep dwelling insurance rate increase in North Carolina, and another on new capital requirements for insurers in Alabama.The...
Dec 16 2025 // The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission on Thursday approved licenses for dispensaries, a key step to making medical marijuana available in the state after years of delay.Commission Chairman Rex Vaughn estimated the...
Dec 2 2025 // He was not covered by workers’ compensation insurance. But his course and scope of employment was enough for an employer’s liability insurance exclusion to apply, said the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals,...
Oct 31 2025 // Eight months after it declared a moratorium on the licensing of captive insurance companies and risk retention groups, the Alabama Department of Insurance has posted a clarification. The March bulletin and an extension of...
Oct 27 2025 // Alabama has become the seventh state to adopt the “SLIP+ for States” reporting and payment platform for surplus lines data and taxes, starting in 2025.Surplus lines brokers who already have a SLIP+ login do not...
Oct 20 2025 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance is again recommending a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in Florida and Alabama, and regulators in both states have scheduled public hearings about the proposed...
Oct 9 2025 // IMA Financial Group, a a North American insurance brokerage based in Denver, has added Valent Group, one of Alabama’s largest privately held insurance brokers, to its team of affiliated firms. Valent, a subsidiary of...
Oct 7 2025 // A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others.Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted Thursday...
Sep 17 2025 // An Alabama worker died from blunt force trauma after he he was performing maintenance inside an industrial concrete mixer, a coronor has determined.The investigation is continuing into the death of Edgar Earl Davis IV, age...
Sep 5 2025 // Alabama’s insurance commissioner has extended a moratorium on new captive insurance companies and risk retention groups until at least next summer.The bulletin, posted this week, follows the commissioner’s...
Sep 4 2025 // Two adults were killed and seven children injured in an accident in a remote area of an all-terrain vehicle park in Alabama, authorities said. No one was wearing a harness or restraint in the off-road vehicle.The...
Aug 25 2025 // Claims adjusters, many of whom work remotely and travel extensively, can take heart from a recent Alabama court ruling, knowing that they may not have to pay the state’s income taxes, even if the adjusting firm is...
Aug 15 2025 // The Alabama Department of Insurance wants new data on how liability coverage affects insurance claims costs.In a bulletin posted Thursday, Commissioner Mark Fowler said the department has issued a data call to carriers of...
Jul 31 2025 // Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held for two weeks in a concrete cell.The indictment unsealed Tuesday...
Jul 28 2025 // A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations.U.S. District Judge Anna...