All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 10 2021 // Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation Insurance announced that it is expanding into the Alabama market, starting Jan. 1. Stonetrust is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and operates in 10 states, including...
Nov 29 2021 // Openly, a homeowners’ insurance platform, announced it has expanded into Alabama, its eighth new state in 2021. Openly, which lets website users choose an agent, get a quote or file a claim, is now in 15 states, the...
Nov 29 2021 // In an effort to increase the number of flood insurance policies in the state, the Alabama Department of Insurance is relaxing requirements that carriers file flood insurance rates, except for those covering...
Nov 23 2021 // Independent insurance agents in Alabama are trying again to crack open what they say is the state’s “good ol’ boy” system and end three decades of tax breaks that mostly benefit two insurance...
Nov 19 2021 // The Alabama Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing Dec. 6 on the proposed merger of Birmingham-based ProAssurance Specialty Insurance Co. and Noetic Specialty Insurance, a Vermont company. The publicly traded...
Nov 4 2021 // The University of Alabama is no longer requiring face coverings in most of its facilities for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.Beginning Friday, masks will be mandated only for unvaccinated people...
Oct 19 2021 // A veteran police officer and fire investigator has been named director of the state’s Insurance Fraud Bureau and assistant state fire marshal. Bill Herman began his career at the Montgomery County Police Department,...
Oct 19 2021 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has set new fees for captive insurers and has adopted a new valuation manual. The department announced last week that starting Jan. 1, the application fee for captive insurers will climb...
Oct 12 2021 // The Alabama Department of Insurance will hold a hearing Nov. 16 on a proposed, significant decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs and rating values. A filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Oct 8 2021 // Four people were killed in Alabama Thursday when torrential rains drenched parts of the state, flooding roads and buildings and causing a sewage overflow.All four deaths, including that of a 4-year-old girl in North...
Sep 22 2021 // A Texas man who was working for a contractor at an Alabama steel mill died after being struck by a forklift, authorities said. Don Burton died at Huntsville Hospital following the accident, which occurred Monday morning,...
Sep 21 2021 // Authorities on Sunday found the body of a man whose vehicle was overtaken by water during flash flooding in Tuscaloosa the day before.A spokeswoman for the Tuscaloosa police, Stephanie Taylor, told Al.com that the...
Sep 20 2021 // Heavy rain has caused some flash flooding Saturday on parts of the University of Alabama campus.University officials tweeted information about various road closures because of flooding and have asked people to avoid...
Sep 15 2021 // ClaimsPro, an independent adjusting and claims management leader in North America and an SCM Company, announced that it has acquired CJ Hester, a multi-state independent insurance adjusting company based in Mobile,...
Sep 10 2021 // Emergency room nurses at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital briefly refused to clock in Sunday night as part of a protest over pay and working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that they said has left...
Sep 3 2021 // Two electric company employees contracted to work with Alabama Power were killed while working on storm restoration, according to the company.WBMA-TV reports that the Pike Electric workers were on duty near an intersection...
Aug 27 2021 // An explosion that damaged Selma’s city convention center on Monday was caused by a natural gas problem, the mayor told city leaders.The Selma Times-Journal reported that Mayor James Perkins Jr. told a City Council...
Aug 26 2021 // An explosion rocked an Alabama convention center, heavily damaging the building but causing no injuries, authorities said.The cause of the Monday night blast at Selma’s convention center _ which was unoccupied at the...
Aug 23 2021 // A judge sentenced a former Alabama police officer to 25 years in prison Friday for the shooting death of a suicidal man who was holding a gun to his own head.Former Huntsville police officer William “Ben” Darby...
Aug 13 2021 // A $3 million settlement has been reached with Tyson Farms, Inc. over a 2019 wastewater spill that killed an estimated 175,000 fish _ one of the largest recorded fish kills in Alabama history, Attorney General Steve...