All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 2 2018 // Two freight trains collided in rural Alabama, injuring four people on board.The Tuscaloosa News reports that that the collision happened Thursday afternoon in Pickens County. The sheriff’s office told the newspaper...
Jan 2 2018 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has hired DeeDee Beckwith in the position as a claims adjuster trainee in its occupational injury unit in the new Florence, Ala., office,...
Dec 20 2017 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has announced Jerry Workman as Deputy Commissioner. Workman will succeed Deputy Commissioner and Chief Actuary Charles Angell, who is retiring in July of 2018. He will lead the...
Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...
Dec 13 2017 // Authorities say five people were injured by a sudden fire sparked by leaking gas at a Catholic school on the Alabama coast. News outlets report the flames erupted Saturday inside a kitchen at St. Vincent de Paul School in...
Dec 11 2017 // An unusually heavy December snowfall across much of the Deep South tapered off Saturday, but icy road conditions left problems and thousands remained without electricity throughout the region.Forecasters warned that...
Dec 5 2017 // Hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama are suing more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies, claiming the companies deceptively marketed and sold opioids.The Clarion Ledger reports the class-action federal lawsuit was filed...
Nov 20 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president.Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years...
Nov 17 2017 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has launched a new online chat to offer consumers another avenue to have their insurance questions answered quickly.Representatives are now available at www.aldoi.gov to help with common...
Nov 14 2017 // An Alabama man who said he tripped and broke his hip while buying a watermelon at a Walmart store has won a $7.5 million verdict in his lawsuit against the retailer.Henry Walker on Wednesday was awarded the damages after a...
Nov 13 2017 // Authorities say a series of fires damaged five structures in Alabama and three teenagers have been charged.Sylacauga Police Chief Kelley Johnson told news outlets that authorities started receiving reports of fires Tuesday...
Nov 13 2017 // A former Alabama stockbroker is accused of embezzling over $200,000 from BBVA Compass Bank.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama said in a news release that 30-year-old Eric Scott Darty...
Oct 19 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc. (SSN), a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed Mike Roman as vice president of its property and casualty sales.Roman is joining senior vice...
Oct 18 2017 // Authorities are investigating a series of fires in an Alabama town, including one that damaged a historic former school building.The Selma Times-Journal reports that as many as five fires were reported in the city’s...
Oct 13 2017 // Alabama has settled a lawsuit that challenged the use of BP oil spill funds to build a beachside hotel and conference center.In the settlement finalized on Thursday, Alabama agreed to commit long-standing funding for beach...
Oct 7 2017 // Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages.Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth...
Sep 13 2017 // The remnants of Hurricane Irma forced Atlanta’s international airport – the world’s busiest passenger airport – to cancel nearly 200 flights early Tuesday. The storm also claimed two lives in...
Sep 5 2017 // Harvey spread its misery across the Deep South as flooded creeks drove people from their homes in Tennessee and Kentucky and an apparent tornado damaged homes and toppled trees in a rural area of northwest Alabama.More...
Sep 1 2017 // Rains from Harvey are inundating coastal Alabama with floodwaters and forcing the Tennessee Valley Authority to lower lake levels in north Alabama.Authorities say numerous roads were covered with water in Mobile and...
Aug 30 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc., has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president.Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years in a...