Latest Alabama Headlines
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Head-Injured Alabama Worker May Get Comp Claim, Despite Mediation Barring It
Sep 26 2022 // An electrician sustains a head injury on the job. He signs a mediation agreement absolving the employer of any workers’ compensation liability while he pursues a tort action against the warehouse owner. Five years...
70-year-old Falls to His Death at Alabama Waterfall Park
Sep 21 2022 // Authorities in northeastern Alabama said a 70-year-old man fell to his death at a popular waterfall park. The man’s name hasn’t been released. DeKalb County Coroner Tom Wilson told AL.com that the man fell from...
InsureScan Expands Auto Insurance Tech Approach to Alabama
Sep 19 2022 // InsureScan, a company that says its software can help agents quote and bind auto coverage in a few minutes, has expanded to Alabama. CEO Mark Chappell, who is based in Alabama, said that while some insurance companies are...
OSHA Charges Alabama Plastics Company With Willful Violations After Worker’s Death
Aug 17 2022 // An Alabama company has been charged with willfully violating federal safety rules in the death of a worker who was pulled into a machine and fatally injured, authorities said Monday. ABC Polymer Industries, which has a...
Alabama Deputy Shoots Man Who Pointed Modified Flare Gun After Traffic Stop
Aug 11 2022 // An Alabama deputy shot and killed a man who pointed a modified flare gun at him after fleeing a traffic stop, law enforcement officials said. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s office said Marty Hutto, 50, was shot and...
State Farm Settles Alabama Class Action Charging it Underpaid Claims
Jul 29 2022 // Did State Farm Insurance employ a clever device to reduce its payout – sometimes to zero – on thousands of property claims in Alabama? The insurance company has denied underpaying claims and other wrongdoing, but has...
Environmental Group Plans Suit Over Coal Ash in Alabama River Delta
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
New Alabama Regs Kick in on Custodials, Clearing Co’s, Captives and Home Fortification
Jul 18 2022 // The Alabama Department of Insurance has updated a number of regulations in keeping with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ model regulations and recommendations from the Insurance Institute for...
Alabama Counties’ Insurance Fund Not Liable for its Own Actions in Deadly Dock Fire
Jul 18 2022 // Insurers and government self-insurance pools should be breathing a sigh of relief after the Alabama Supreme Court absolved a county commissions’ fund of direct liability in a marina fire that killed eight people and...
Alabama Closes Bond Deal to Build Two Mega-Prisons
Jul 14 2022 // Alabama on Tuesday closed a $509 million bond deal to help build two supersize prisons amid lawsuits by inmates bidding to block the project. The Alabama Finance Department confirmed that the bond sale, which had been...
Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Alabama Judge’s Suit Against ‘Borat’ Comedian
Jul 8 2022 // Sacha Baron Cohen on Thursday defeated an appeal by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore who had accused the British comedian of defamation for falsely portraying him as a pedophile in an interview for the show...
Southeast Business Moves: Risk Strategies, Acrisure, Alabama Agencies
Jul 7 2022 // Acrisure Buys Brentwood Claims Firm Acrisure, a fintech company that runs one of the largest insurance brokerage companies, has acquired a Tennessee-based claims services firm. Brentwood Services Inc., which said it...
New Alabama, Georgia Laws Taking Effect Today Indirectly Affect Insurance
Jul 1 2022 // Several Alabama and Georgia laws that could indirectly affect property, liability and workers’ compensation insurance take effect today, July 1. Alabama House Bill 108 requires the state Elevator Safety Review Board...
Alabama Counties’ Insurance Fund Not Liable for its Own Actions in Deadly Dock Fire
Jun 23 2022 // Insurers and government self-insurance pools should be breathing a sigh of relief after the Alabama Supreme Court absolved a county commissions’ fund of direct liability in a marina fire that killed eight people and...
Alabama Retirement Fund Shows Challenges of Investing in Current Market
Jun 21 2022 // Investments that are a key source of funding for Alabama’s Employees Retirement System have lost ground in the slumping financial markets this year, but officials say the pension fund is sound. The system’s...
Alabama Insurance Commissioner Ridling to Retire; Fowler To Take Over
Jun 17 2022 // Alabama’s longest-serving insurance commissioner, Jim Ridling, will retire at the end of the month, the state’s governor announced. “Jim has kept stability in the agency, all while bringing fresh ideas to...
Alabama Seafood Company Recalls Crabmeat Sold in 4 Southern States
Jun 7 2022 // An Alabama seafood company is recalling 1-pound packages of crab meat because federal inspectors found listeria bacteria on cooking equipment and in the cooking room. Irvington Seafood of Irvington, Alabama, said in a...
People Moves: Longtime Alabama Agency Adds New Shareholder-Owners
May 18 2022 // Byars/Wright Insurance, an independent agency with six offices in Alabama, has named four new shareholders, officially giving the agency six owners. In addition to existing owners Haig Wright II and Skip Roberts, four...
Alabama DOI to Hold Hearing on VR Acquisition of National Security Group
May 13 2022 // The Alabama Department of Insurance will hold a hearing in June on VR Insurance Holdings’ proposed purchase of the National Security Group. VR Insurance Holdings is a recently formed Delaware-based company formed by...
Alabama Auto Shop Owners Design Anti-Theft Cages for Catalytic Converters
Apr 27 2022 // As the number of catalytic converter thefts has soared nationwide, one Alabama auto repair shop has begun building anti-theft cages that cover the pollution-control devices. Dean and Cory Parker, owners of Dean’s...
