Latest Alabama Headlines
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Two Montgomery Workers Charged with Insurance Fraud in Alabama
Apr 30 2024 // Montgomery, Alabama, authorities have charged two workers – a contract employee and a firefighter – with insurance fraud in unrelated alleged scams. Local news outlet reported that Michael Granger Hicks, who worked for...
Alabama City Councilman Hit With New Auto Insurance Fraud Indictment
Apr 22 2024 // Authorities have added four more insurance fraud charges to those already lodged against an city official in coastal Alabama. Prichard City Councilman Derrick Griffin last week was indicted by a grand jury for the second...
Help Wanted: Alabama DOI Seeks Proposals on Actuarial, Examination Services
Apr 10 2024 // The Alabama Department of Insurance is seeking requests for proposals for a range of professional services, including actuarial, accounting, insurer examination, market conduct and investment examination work. The...
PCF Insurance Acquires Alabama’s MK Insurance Agency
Apr 3 2024 // PCF Insurance Services, a brokerage operating in 40 states, has acquired Hoover, Alabama-based MK Insurance Group, a family owned commercial and personal lines agency in business for six decades. MK Insurance has...
Student from China Sentenced in Arson of Alabama Church in 2021
Apr 1 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman in the U.S. on a student visa has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for setting fire to First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2021, federal prosecutors said...
Alabama Sales Rep and Clinic Owner Sentenced in $28M Billing Fraud Scheme
Mar 25 2024 // A medical sales representative and a pain clinic owner in Alabama have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in a long-running, $28 million fraud scheme that involved a compounding pharmacy, unneeded nerve...
Alabama Bill Would Let Alfa Federation, Not Insurer, Sell Health Plans. BCBS Opposes
Mar 22 2024 // Alfa, one of the largest property-casualty insurers in Alabama, is clarifying that it is not planning to move into the health insurance business: A hotly debated bill in the state Legislature would allow Alfa’s...
How to Renew Your Insurance License with a Criminal Background Part 1: Alabama through Georgia
Mar 19 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance licenses can be hard to get and keep, even for those with the most pristine backgrounds. So, what’s an insurance producer to do if they find themselves...
Business Moves
Mar 18 2024 // East King Insurance Partners, Mehta Insurance Agency Florida-based King Insurance Partners acquired Mehta Insurance Agency, located in Absecon, New Jersey. Mehta Insurance Agency’s offerings include business, flood...
Bond Slashed by $1.8M for Man Accused of Crashing Into Senator’s Wife in Alabama
Mar 14 2024 // BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge cut bond by nearly $1.9 million on Tuesday for a man accused of fleeing from police during a car chase and causing a crash last January that injured Gayle Manchin, the wife of...
Alabama Governor Signs Legislation Protecting IVF Providers from Legal Liability
Mar 8 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing pressure to get in vitro fertilization services restarted in the state, Alabama’s governor swiftly signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding doctors from potential legal...
Medical Groups Urge Alabama Supreme Court to Revisit Frozen Embryo Ruling
Mar 4 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals urged the state Supreme Court on Friday to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children, saying the ruling is blocking fertility...
People Moves: Alabama, NC DOIs Name Two to Key Positions
Feb 28 2024 // Two state insurance departments have named new people to high-level positions. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week announced that Amy Funderburk, a longtime attorney for a number of state government...
IVF Clinic Insurance Affected by Ruling as Alabama Lawmakers Look for a Fix
Feb 27 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos...
Alabama House Votes to Give DOI More Arrest Powers, Longer Statute of Limitations
Feb 26 2024 // The long arm of the Alabama Department of Insurance may be about to get a little longer, after the state House of Representatives approved bills that would exempt the department from sunset law provisions and would grant...
Alfa Insurance Did Not Discriminate Against Worker with MS, Appeals Court Finds
Feb 21 2024 // Alfa Insurance, one of the largest property/casualty insurers in Alabama, did not discriminate against an employee with multiple sclerosis and did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal appeals court...
Palomar Insurance in Alabama Names Messer VP; Carofin Elevates Clifford
Feb 16 2024 // Palomar Insurance Corp., based in Montgomery, Alabama, announced that Shon Messer has joined the company’s Birmingham office as vice president. Messer Messer, who spent 16 years at DSD Insurance, an Acrisure agency...
No Insurance on 200-foot Tower Stolen from Alabama Town’s Radio Station
Feb 12 2024 // JASPER, Ala. (AP) — The theft of a giant radio tower has silenced what used to be the voice of a small Alabama town and the surrounding county, the radio station’s general manager said. A thief or thieves made off...
Prime Insurance Avoids $60M Judgment in Liposuction Death Case in Georgia
Feb 12 2024 // Prime Insurance Co. is not liable for $60 million in damages after two patients died following liposuction at a Georgia clinic, thanks in part to the clear wording of the insurance policy and timely action by the insurer,...
Alabama Lawmakers Push Sweeping Bill That Would Allow Lottery and Casinos
Feb 9 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of Alabama lawmakers unveiled a sweeping gambling bill Wednesday that could authorize a state lottery and 10 casinos across the conservative Deep South state as some Republicans look to...
