Tennessee’s attorney general on Thursday sued Food City over claims that the supermarket chain’s pharmacies intentionally profited from the opioid epidemic by unlawfully selling tens of millions of prescription opioids in the state. Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed the 208-page …
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday fast-tracked a pair of pandemic bills – one to exempt coronavirus relief payments from state income tax and another to shield businesses, health care providers and others from virus-related lawsuits. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and GOP …
Applied Underwriters has completed its acquisition of Centauri Specialty Insurance Co. and Centauri National Insurance Co., based in Sarasota, Florida. Florida, Louisiana and Texas regulators have approved the transaction. The deal took nine months to close. Terms were not disclosed. …
The Florida Peninsula Insurance family of companies has hired Mindy King as the company’s director of Customer Experience. This is a new role at Florida Peninsula, which will be focused on building customer experience programs across the entire enterprise. King …
A nearly $14 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over a 2018 crash that killed a Kentucky police officer. The money will go to the son of Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre “Dee Dee” Mengedoht, who died on …
A Florida woman allegedly acting as an insurance agent without a license was arrested last month after an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services Bureau of Insurance Fraud. According to a statement from DFS, Ida Bernadette Newsome of …
Nearly four years after West Virginia lawmakers allowed a regulatory system to be established for medical cannabis products, eligible residents can start registering to eventually receive them. Residents with serious medical conditions could begin registering as of Wednesday at www.medcanwv.org. …
McGriff has hired Dain Jorgenson as a senior vice president and producer in its Birmingham-based Energy Practice. Jorgenson joins McGriff from Insurance Risk Partners, where he served as senior vice president and was responsible for developing new opportunities and solving …
A Georgia state House member says drivers should not be able to avoid penalties by telling judges they have purchased hands-free devices for their cellphones. Republican Rep. John Carson of Marietta that the current provisions, intended to let people out …
Amazon workers at an Alabama warehouse will vote next week on whether to unionize in one of the most visible labor-organizing pushes at the online retailing giant. Employees at the Bessemer facility are seeking to form a union to represent …
