All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 9 2023 // A divided Alabama Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a preliminary injunction blocking construction of a new coastal bridge.Justices in a 5-3 decision declined the emergency request from the Alabama Department of...
Jun 8 2023 // A union organizer at Amazon who testified before a Senate committee has been terminated by the company, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.The union says Jennifer Bates is dealing with injuries...
Jun 5 2023 // An Alabama federal judge has sentenced the man who admits being the leader of a scheme to set fires to Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast to 18 years in prison – double the recommended sentence.As part of a plea...
Jun 5 2023 // Alabama lawmakers legalized medical marijuana two years ago. But that came with a high hurdle: Dispensaries, growers, processors and other license applicants must have at least $2 million of liability and casualty...
May 24 2023 // An Alabama couple has been arrested after authorities said they dumped oil over 33 miles of road around Decatur, in the northern part of the state. The news outlet AL.com reported that crews in Lawrence County had to...
May 23 2023 // Insurance defense attorneys say a pair of lawsuits filed by a law firm and a claims consulting business – against a national personal injury law firm – raises questions about the proper relationships between legal...
May 19 2023 // Driven by a “personal vendetta” against a toll bridge company, Alabama’s transportation director planned to build an unnecessary bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway at a cost of more than $100 million...
May 19 2023 // Alabama legislation that would give victims of childhood sex abuse more time to sue their abusers has stalled in a committee amid opposition from insurance companies, the bill’s sponsor said.The Senate Judiciary...
May 5 2023 // Alabama lawmakers legalized medical marijuana two years ago this month. But it came with a high hurdle: Dispensaries, growers, processors and other license applicants must have at least $2 million of liability and casualty...
Apr 14 2023 // NFL prospect and former Louisiana wide receiver Michael Jefferson was involved in a fatal car accident in Mobile County.Jefferson’s agent, Jon Perzley, told ESPN that the player suffered injuries in the accident...
Apr 3 2023 // Three current and former former executives of a shipbuilder that constructs vessels for the U.S. Navy have been indicted on accounting fraud charges accusing them of falsely inflating the company’s reported earnings,...
Mar 20 2023 // An Alabama jury has decided that Dollar General stores must pay almost $2 million to a delivery worker who was injured when a ramp collapsed at a store.Driver Jason Agee in 2019 was pushing a rolling cart full of bottled...
Mar 17 2023 // Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a House-passed plan to use the state’s final $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funds largely on a mix of water and sewer infrastructure, broadband expansion and health care...
Mar 17 2023 // The National Security Group, the Alabama-based parent company of a number of property-casualty, life and health insurance companies, has elevated three people to C-suite positions.Kelly Jackson was named chief financial...
Mar 15 2023 // Less than eight months after two of Alabama’s oldest insurance agencies merged to create the Where Relationships Matter Group, the group has taken on another agency with offices in the southeast part of the...
Mar 10 2023 // A Norfolk Southern train derailed Thursday in Alabama, just hours before the rail company’s CEO testified in Congress about last month’s fiery derailment of an Ohio train carrying hazardous chemicals.The...
Mar 10 2023 // Environmental organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama, accusing the state of discriminating against minority communities in how it distributes funding for wastewater infrastructure, including...
Mar 1 2023 // Authorities have charged an Alabama insurance agent, who formerly worked for Alfa Insurance, with more than $600,000 in fraud, theft and exploitation of the elderly.Bret Chappell, 43, of Warrior, Alabama, was arrested...
Feb 28 2023 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Philip Baddour to a second six-year term as a full commissioner at the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which handles workers’ compensation claims disputes. If...
Feb 22 2023 // Sanjeev Chaudhuri, the former chief actuary at Alfa Insurance, is the new chief actuary for the Alabama Department of Insurance, the DOI announced this week. Chaudhuri has more than 20 years of experience in...