All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 23 2013 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Molton, Allen & Williams (MAW), headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. USI said it will combine MAW with its existing Birmingham office under...
Dec 23 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of ProAssurance Casualty Company, ProAssurance Indemnity Company, Inc....
Dec 20 2013 // A Dauphin Island woman wants to know the fate of her two pet deer after wildlife officials removed them and said they were a danger to the public.Staci Curtiss told the Mobile Press-Register that she had rescued the two...
Dec 13 2013 // The Alabama state Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s decision to award an Iranian-born businessman $7.5 million in a 2011 defamation lawsuit.AL.com reported that the court issued a unanimous decision Dec. 6 upholding...
Dec 3 2013 // A judge has delayed the trial over a lawsuit filed after Somali pirates took over a U.S. cargo ship in 2009.Crew members are suing Maersk Line Ltd. and the Mobile-based Waterman Steamship Corp. over the pirate attack that...
Nov 27 2013 // The days just before Christmas, as people rush to buy presents and travel to holiday destinations, can be more dangerous on roadways than the days surrounding Thanksgiving and New Year’s, according to a recent study...
Nov 26 2013 // The University of Alabama opened a new football-training center last February. Any professional team would be happy to have it. The amenities include a $9 million weight room, a hydrotherapy pool with a Club Med–style...
Nov 19 2013 // University of Alabama officials say the school has issued 153 cease and desist letters in the past decade to businesses and people accused of selling goods that violate the school’s trademarks.The school defends its...
Nov 18 2013 // The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has launched an initiative to stop underage and binge drinking in the state.ABC Board members and law enforcement officials addressed students at Prattville High School recently...
Nov 15 2013 // Florida and Alabama government officials have filed an amicus brief this week supporting the Mississippi insurance department’s lawsuit against the federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program’s...
Nov 11 2013 // The second explosive oil-train derailment this year, which has finally burned out in rural Alabama, may raise new questions about the safety of the crude-by-rail boom, pointing to problems beyond those that surfaced...
Nov 10 2013 // Several oil tank cars that burst into flames after a train derailed in rural Alabama were expected to keep burning into Saturday, potentially reigniting the push for tougher regulation of the boom in moving oil by...
Nov 8 2013 // The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has launched an initiative to stop underage and binge drinking in the state.ABC Board members and law enforcement officials addressed students at Prattville High School this...
Oct 31 2013 // A Dothan, Alabama judge is considering whether city officials acted appropriately in upholding disciplinary action against a police officer for Facebook posts she made.Circuit Judge Butch Binford heard arguments in the...
Oct 28 2013 // An Alabama woman has filed suit seeking $5 million from the owners of a Kentucky motel where she says she was infected with Legionnaire’s disease.Vera Ann Johnson and husband John Allen Johnson of Wedowee filed suit...
Oct 25 2013 // The Georgia town of Trenton seems to fit the model. Two people died there about a block from each other. Ringgold, Ga., does, too. Death toll there: 8.In both cases, National Weather Service maps that tracked the April 27,...
Oct 25 2013 // Gov. Robert Bentley is creating a research center at the University of Alabama to try to improve the availability and affordability of homeowners insurance following hurricanes and tornadoes that demolished homes from the...
Oct 21 2013 // A University of Alabama study has found that the April 2011 tornado didn’t severely impact home foreclosures in the Tuscaloosa area.Sociologist Bronwen Lichtenstein says researchers noted a slight decrease in...
Oct 21 2013 // Alabama has received a federal grant of nearly $636,000 to help homeowners in the state’s two coastal counties retrofit their homes against wind damage. State officials and officials from Mobile and Baldwin County...
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said.Karen, with top...