All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 26 2023 // TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A student and his parents have filed a lawsuit against a University of Alabama fraternity, saying he suffered a traumatic brain injury while being hazed as a fraternity pledge earlier this...
Sep 15 2023 // Orion180, one of the latest entrants into the Florida market, has also begun writing homeowners policies in noncoastal areas of Mississippi and Alabama. The policies will be written through admitted insurer Orion180 Select...
Sep 13 2023 // Burns & Wilcox, the wholesale insurance brokerage, has agreed to acquire Alabama-based Environmental Underwriting Solutions, a wholesale broker specializing in complex environmental exposures, from Insurance Office of...
Aug 28 2023 // The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can continue work on a new bridge that will give motorists an alternate route to state beaches.Justices reversed an injunction issued by a Montgomery judge that had...
Aug 24 2023 // The Federal Reserve Board has fined Regions Bank, based in Birmingham, Alabama, almost $3 million for failing to ensure that borrowers maintained flood insurance on their properties.The board did not detail the violations,...
Aug 17 2023 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An auto parts supplier plans a $114 million investment to expand its facility in Alabama to support the production of electric vehicle parts, Gov. Kay Ivey`s office announced Tuesday.Shinhwa...
Aug 17 2023 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A company that failed to win a potentially lucrative medical marijuana license in Alabama asked a judge Tuesday to block the state from issuing the licenses to anyone, arguing a state...
Aug 15 2023 // One of five Alabama tow truck operators charged with overcharging insurance companies will go to trial in April, almost four years after the men were hit with insurance fraud charges.Danny Williams, owner of Southport...
Aug 7 2023 // The A.M. Best financial rating firm has downgraded the financial strength rating of the Alabama Municipal Insurance Corp., citing weather losses as well as law enforcement liability costs.“AMIC’s law...
Aug 4 2023 // Birmingham-based Valent Group, an insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Coastal Professional Insurance Inc., an independent agency in Mobile, Alabama. Coastal, or CPI, has been in the business for...
Jul 31 2023 // Rolling Fork, Mississippi (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were killed by their homes.Angela Eason had visited Brenda Odoms’ tidy mobile home before. It was a place where Odoms, who had many...
Jul 28 2023 // A former Alfa insurance agent in Alabama has pleaded guilty to defrauding people, most of them elderly, of more than $862,286 in life insurance. The plea agreement for Bret Chappell, 44, of Warrior, comes six months after...
Jul 25 2023 // An Alabama firefighter who was shot inside his fire station will be laid to rest today, providing a small measure of closure after what authorities have called a targeted attack that left another fireman critically...
Jul 24 2023 // The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has asked a federal appellate court to reinstate its lawsuit against the Poarch Creek Band of Indians and Auburn University for improperly removing graves from a sacred site in Alabama to build...
Jul 14 2023 // Extreme rainfall flooded roads and property in east-central Mississippi Thursday, leading authorities to rescue three people from vehicles and homes.Water pushed a car into a ditch, and the driver escaped before the car...
Jul 3 2023 // Louisiana homeowners will soon be able to apply for grants to retrofit their roofs to beyond-code construction standards, spurring discounts to their insurance premiums.State lawmakers appropriated $30 million to the...
Jun 30 2023 // A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among at least 10 recent victims of dangerous rip currents along Gulf of Mexico beaches stretching across Florida’s...
Jun 28 2023 // A Seattle-based nuclear energy company has selected Gadsden as the site of a microreactor assembly plant.Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation said the facility will manufacture and assemble modules needed to construct the...
Jun 26 2023 // A judge on Friday ordered Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission to temporarily halt the issuance of licenses to growers and distributers as two companies argue the state used a flawed and secretive process to selecting...
Jun 23 2023 // Piedmont Airlines failed to follow safety procedures before a worker was sucked into a jet engine and killed in December, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a $15,000 citation against the...