Latest Alabama Headlines
All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Seattle’s Super Bowl Score on Safety Costs Alabama Store $70K
Feb 4 2014 // Customers of a Birmingham-area jeweler are getting about $70,000 in refunds because of the Super Bowl. Jeff Dennis Jewelers in Gardendale ran a promotion offering a cash refund on purchases if either Denver or Seattle...
Alabama Bill Raises Penalties for Drunk Boaters to Same As for Car Drivers
Feb 3 2014 // The Alabama Senate is trying to increase the penalties for alcohol-related boating deaths to the same as deaths caused by drunken car drivers. The Senate voted 18-1 last week for a bill to equalize the penalties. The...
Alabama Jury Awards Farmhand $4M for Genital Injury
Jan 24 2014 // A south Alabama jury has decided a farm owner should pay a former worker $4 million in damages for an on-the-job accident that left the man with skinned genitals. AL.com reported that Gerald Lymon was holding onto the boom...
Alabama Spike in Fire Deaths This Year Linked to Cold Weather
Jan 24 2014 // Alabama fire officials said the state has seen an alarming increase in fire deaths. Al.com reported that 19 people have died in fires across the state so far this year. In 2012, 71 people died in Alabama fires. Only six of...
Willis Acquires Benefits Division of Alabama’s Capital Strategies Group
Jan 23 2014 // Willis North America said it has acquired the employee benefits consulting division of Birmingham, Alabama-based Capital Strategies Group Inc. Capital Strategies Group’s employee benefits consulting division, led by...
Alabama Family Awarded $400K in Nursing Home Death
Jan 22 2014 // The family of a 101-year-old man who died of pneumonia after being housed in a Montgomery nursing home has been awarded $400,000. AL.com reported that an arbitrator awarded the money to the estate of John A. Garrett on...
Alabama Governor Has Insurance for $50K Water Pipe Damage in Home
Jan 10 2014 // Gov. Robert BentleyThe freezing weather really hit home with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. The freezing weather really hit home with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. Bentley said this week that his private home in Tuscaloosa...
USI Insurance Acquires Alabama’s Molton, Allen & Williams
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...
Ratings Recap: Pro Assurance, AES Global, Alfa Group, ARI Mutual, Springfield
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....
Alabama Wildlife Chief Seizes Woman’s Pet Deer In Public Safety Move
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...
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds $7.5M Defamation Jury Award
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...
Alabama Trial Over Somali Pirate Attack on Maersk Cargo Ship Delayed
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...
Roads More Dangerous Around Christmas Than Thanksgiving or New Year’s: Alabama Research
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...
Bear Bryant’s Son’s Reinsurance Fortune Helps Power Alabama Football
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...
University of Alabama Does What It Takes to Protect Trademark
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...
Alabama Targets Underage Drinking
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...
Florida, Alabama Officials Back Mississippi’s Suit Over Flood Insurance
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...
Alabama Oil Train Derailment Raises New Crude-by-Rail Safety Questions
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...
Oil Tank Train Derails in Alabama; Cars Erupt in Flames
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...
Alabama Targets Underage Drinking
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...
