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 treatments and harming the medical community. The Medical …
When the COVID-19 virus spread across the country three years ago, dozens of state legislatures approved statutes that granted health care providers immunity from legal actions brought by people who claimed to have been injured by COVID treatments. “Absent wanton, …
A petition to invoke appraisal is not the same thing as a motion to compel arbitration, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday. The high court dismissed an appeal by Great American Insurance Co. that sought to overturn a trial court’s …
A company cannot be compelled to turn over its risk management work product that may include attorney-client information and claims investigators’ opinions, the Alabama Supreme Court decided. The case involved the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), which applies mostly to …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court sided with Abbott Laboratories on Friday and threw out a lawsuit filed by Mobile County against the company over the opioid epidemic. In an 8-0 opinion in which one justice recused himself, the …
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday upheld the dismissal of lawsuits challenging the use of traffic cameras to ticket motorists. The lawsuits were filed by motorists who received tickets from traffic cameras in Midfield, Center Point and Opelika. The suits …
The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that an Alabama man who was wrongfully terminated is entitled to seek lost future earnings totaling $1.25 million. The Hattiesburg American reported that the justices said Merchants Foodservice used faulty …
The Alabama Supreme Court says a man can’t go forward with his lawsuit against a company involved in booking a death metal concert where he was injured. The justices on Friday blocked a lawsuit against the Los Angeles-based ICM Partners …
A woman who was hurt in a car crash that ended a police chase more than three years ago can’t sue the officers or the suburban Birmingham city where it occurred, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday. The justices unanimously …
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a woman can pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against an obstetrician after a miscarriage when she was five to six weeks pregnant. Justices last month reversed a trial judge’s order dismissing the wrongful-death claim. …
