All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 23 2017 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of excess & surplus insurance focusing on coastal properties, has launched admitted residential homeowners’ products through a new partnership with...
Feb 17 2017 // A former executive for a Birmingham-area scrap metal brokerage company has been accused of embezzling $11.2 million from the company and using the funds to live a lavish lifestyle. Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey said...
Feb 16 2017 // A federal judge in Alabama is refusing to dismiss an environmental group’s lawsuit over alleged chemical contamination in the Tennessee River.The Decatur Daily reports U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon won’t...
Feb 6 2017 // Researchers say the number of fatal traffic crashes in Alabama increased by nearly 25 percent last year.Citing a recent University of Alabama study, The Tuscaloosa News reports that 1,058 people died in crashes statewide...
Jan 25 2017 // Cobbs Allen, a national insurance and risk management firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has hired Tyrenda Williams-Reed as its new Human Resources director.Reed will be responsible for company-wide human resource...
Jan 24 2017 // Researchers say the number of fatal traffic crashes in Alabama increased by nearly 25 percent last year.Citing a recent University of Alabama study, The Tuscaloosa News reports that 1,058 people died in crashes statewide...
Jan 23 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region.For the insurance industry, these events made for a...
Jan 13 2017 // A woman whose job it was to make change for cashiers at UAB Hospital dining areas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after she was accused of stealing $1.1 million.Al.com reports that Kyejuana Avery was also ordered...
Jan 11 2017 // It is fair to say 2016 was the year of the catastrophe in the Southeast. Tornadoes, drought, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires impacted virtually every state in the region.For the insurance industry, these events made for...
Jan 10 2017 // The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a woman can pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against an obstetrician after a miscarriage when she was five to six weeks pregnant.Justices last month reversed a trial judge’s...
Jan 5 2017 // A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with 14 home burglaries in south Alabama. Al.com reports that Mobile police say William Rotter was taken into custody Dec. 22 and charged with 14 counts of third-degree...
Dec 29 2016 // The Alabama Department of Insurance (ALDOI) has established new wind mitigation discounts for property insurance for Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) Fortified residential and commercial structures...
Dec 22 2016 // Officials in Birmingham, Ala., say three of five planned community storm shelters will be open before the spring tornado season. That’s nearly six years after the April 27, 2011 tornadoes that devastated parts of...
Dec 20 2016 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has created a new state council to address what the governor called a growing crisis of opioid misuse and addiction.The governor made the announcement at a Dec. 15 news conference at the Alabama...
Dec 15 2016 // Officials say a second worker injured in the Oct. 31 explosion of a major gasoline pipeline in Alabama has died.Al.com quotes the Occupational Health and Safety Administration as saying the employee died on Nov. 22 from...
Dec 9 2016 // Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Reliance Partners, a provider of commercial insurance focused on the transportation and logistics space, has announced the opening of the company’s new Birmingham, Ala., location. Eddie...
Dec 7 2016 // The National Weather Service says forecasters have confirmed that 20 tornadoes touched down in Alabama last week. The agency says storm surveys found damage from 11 twisters in central Alabama and nine more in north...
Nov 30 2016 // At least three people were killed and four children in a daycare center were injured as tornadoes tore through the U.S. south overnight and into Wednesday morning, forecasters said.Three people were killed in Rosalie in...
Nov 30 2016 // Recognizing that coastal storms can cause surges, sea-level rise and cyclone winds that devastate communities, emergency management experts in a new study have detailed a method for involving local stakeholders in planning...
Nov 30 2016 // Storms roaring across the South appeared to be taking aim at some of the largest wildfires burning across the region, which could finally help firefighters in their efforts to subdue the blazes, authorities said Monday.The...