All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 10 2022 // BoMont Group, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm based in Birmingham, Alabama, has named a former Floridian as president of the company. Griffin Smith, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Chipola College in...
Oct 4 2022 // A congressional aide in Alabama has been indicted on insurance fraud charges and was placed on leave from her job.Alabama news outlets reported that Sherry McCormick, an aide to U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, turned...
Sep 26 2022 // An electrician sustains a head injury on the job. He signs a mediation agreement absolving the employer of any workers’ compensation liability while he pursues a tort action against the warehouse owner.Five years...
Sep 21 2022 // Authorities in northeastern Alabama said a 70-year-old man fell to his death at a popular waterfall park. The man’s name hasn’t been released. DeKalb County Coroner Tom Wilson told AL.com that the man fell from...
Sep 19 2022 // InsureScan, a company that says its software can help agents quote and bind auto coverage in a few minutes, has expanded to Alabama. CEO Mark Chappell, who is based in Alabama, said that while some insurance companies are...
Aug 17 2022 // An Alabama company has been charged with willfully violating federal safety rules in the death of a worker who was pulled into a machine and fatally injured, authorities said Monday.ABC Polymer Industries, which has a...
Aug 11 2022 // An Alabama deputy shot and killed a man who pointed a modified flare gun at him after fleeing a traffic stop, law enforcement officials said.The Lawrence County Sheriff’s office said Marty Hutto, 50, was shot and...
Jul 29 2022 // Did State Farm Insurance employ a clever device to reduce its payout – sometimes to zero – on thousands of property claims in Alabama?The insurance company has denied underpaying claims and other wrongdoing, but has...
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
Jul 18 2022 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has updated a number of regulations in keeping with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ model regulations and recommendations from the Insurance Institute for...
Jul 18 2022 // Insurers and government self-insurance pools should be breathing a sigh of relief after the Alabama Supreme Court absolved a county commissions’ fund of direct liability in a marina fire that killed eight people and...
Jul 14 2022 // Alabama on Tuesday closed a $509 million bond deal to help build two supersize prisons amid lawsuits by inmates bidding to block the project.The Alabama Finance Department confirmed that the bond sale, which had been...
Jul 8 2022 // Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday defeated an appeal by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore who had accused the British comedian of defamation for falsely portraying him as a pedophile in an interview for the show...
Jul 7 2022 // Acrisure Buys Brentwood Claims FirmAcrisure, a fintech company that runs one of the largest insurance brokerage companies, has acquired a Tennessee-based claims services firm. Brentwood Services Inc., which said it...
Jul 1 2022 // Several Alabama and Georgia laws that could indirectly affect property, liability and workers’ compensation insurance take effect today, July 1.Alabama House Bill 108 requires the state Elevator Safety Review Board...
Jun 23 2022 // Insurers and government self-insurance pools should be breathing a sigh of relief after the Alabama Supreme Court absolved a county commissions’ fund of direct liability in a marina fire that killed eight people and...
Jun 21 2022 // Investments that are a key source of funding for Alabama’s Employees Retirement System have lost ground in the slumping financial markets this year, but officials say the pension fund is sound.The system’s...
Jun 17 2022 // Alabama’s longest-serving insurance commissioner, Jim Ridling, will retire at the end of the month, the state’s governor announced.“Jim has kept stability in the agency, all while bringing fresh ideas to...
Jun 7 2022 // An Alabama seafood company is recalling 1-pound packages of crab meat because federal inspectors found listeria bacteria on cooking equipment and in the cooking room.Irvington Seafood of Irvington, Alabama, said in a...
May 18 2022 // Byars/Wright Insurance, an independent agency with six offices in Alabama, has named four new shareholders, officially giving the agency six owners. In addition to existing owners Haig Wright II and Skip Roberts, four...