All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2020 // The University of Alabama has recorded 531 cases of COVID-19 on campus since the fall semester began last week, according to numbers the university system released Tuesday as officials try to clamp down on student parties,...
Aug 20 2020 // The Upton Group has entered into a partnership with global insurance broker Acrisure, which will enable The Upton Group to build on its insurance and risk management services for franchise business clients, with a special...
Aug 7 2020 // Palomar Insurance has added Austin Golson to its sales team as an account executive, specializing in the transportation industry. Golson is licensed in property & casualty insurance has experience in transportation and...
Aug 4 2020 // Value Insurance MGA, a new Birmingham, Ala., domiciled managing general agent specializing in non-standard auto insurance, is now offering a personal lines auto product in the state.Value MGA founder Daniel Feigenbaum has...
Jul 31 2020 // The Alabama Department of Environmental Management announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with chemical giant 3M regarding cleanup of “forever chemicals” at its plant in Decatur and at multiple sites...
Jul 24 2020 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurance carrier, LUBA Workers’ Comp, has expanded its coverage into Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama.Founded in 1991, the company currently writes workers’...
Jul 16 2020 // Alabama will begin requiring face masks in public as health officials try to quell a surge of new coronavirus cases that are filling up hospitals, Gov. Kay Ivey said Wednesday.In an announcement made a day after the state...
Jun 17 2020 // A man who was arrested in his wife’s slaying only to be cleared later is seeking $6 million from an Alabama city, news outlets reported.Carl Harris is demanding the money from the city of Ozark, where police...
Jun 12 2020 // A city in northern Alabama will pay a ransom worth $300,000 in Bitcoins in response to a hack of its computer system.Florence City Council voted unanimously at an emergency meeting Wednesday evening to make the payment...
Jun 9 2020 // Tropical Storm Cristobal weakened into a depression early on June 8 after inundating coastal Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather along most of the U.S. Gulf Coast, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches,...
Jun 9 2020 // Travel insurance provider Trawick International has added Bailey Foster to the Trawick International team. Foster has assumed the role of vice president for Trip Insurance. Foster has more than two decades of insurance...
Jun 8 2020 // Shelters that open during dangerous hurricanes may look and operate differently this storm season, state emergency officials said, as the new coronavirus complicate response plans.Across the coastal United States, concerns...
May 26 2020 // Valent Group, the risk consulting and insurance division of EBSCO Industries (EBSCO), has hired former attorney and business owner Billy DeBuys as vice president in its Employee Benefits practice.DeBuys comes to Valent...
May 19 2020 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has created a new division dedicated to supporting risk reduction against natural disasters for both policyholders and insurance companies, according to a statement from ALDOI.The new...
May 14 2020 // About two dozen people have died at an Alabama veterans nursing home because of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, the state said Tuesday.The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement the...
May 11 2020 // Alabama’s dine-in restaurants, bars, salons and gyms will be allowed to reopen with limits as the state eases restrictions during the continuing state mic, Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday.New guidelines taking effect...
May 11 2020 // New legal protections are being extended to help shield businesses from “frivolous” lawsuits linked to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday.An order issued by Ivey would protect health care...
May 7 2020 // The state of Alabama sued Tyson Foods on Thursday over a 2019 wastewater spill that caused the largest recorded fish kill in the state.The Alabama attorney general’s office filed the suit, saying Tyson was negligent...
May 6 2020 // The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of lawsuits challenging the use of traffic cameras to ticket motorists. The lawsuits were filed by motorists who received tickets from traffic cameras in Midfield,...
May 5 2020 // Traffic accidents are killing fewer people in Alabama as people stay home more and drive less during the pandemic.Highway deaths in April dropped 58% from March and 42% from a year earlier, according to statistics from the...