Latest Alabama Headlines
All the headlines from our Alabama Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alabama DOI Expands Policy Cancellation, Nonrenewal Prohibitions
Dec 31 2025 // Property insurers in Alabama will no longer be able to cancel or non-renew policies because of natural disasters or because of losses that don’t affect that line of business, the Alabama Department of Insurance...
Alabama, NC Set Hearings on Proposed Capital Requirements, Dwelling Rate Increase
Dec 23 2025 // Regulators in two Southeastern states will hold hearings early next year, one on a proposed steep dwelling insurance rate increase in North Carolina, and another on new capital requirements for insurers in Alabama. The...
Alabama Approves Licenses for Med Marijuana Dispensaries With 2026 Start
Dec 16 2025 // The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission on Thursday approved licenses for dispensaries, a key step to making medical marijuana available in the state after years of delay. Commission Chairman Rex Vaughn estimated the...
In Alabama, Shot Employee Gets No Workers’ Comp and No Employer’s Liability
Dec 2 2025 // He was not covered by workers’ compensation insurance. But his course and scope of employment was enough for an employer’s liability insurance exclusion to apply, said the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals,...
Alabama DOI Says Captive Moratorium Does Not Apply to Foreign RRGs
Oct 31 2025 // Eight months after it declared a moratorium on the licensing of captive insurance companies and risk retention groups, the Alabama Department of Insurance has posted a clarification. The March bulletin and an extension of...
Alabama DOI Requiring Use of SLIP+ Platform for Surplus Lines Reporting
Oct 27 2025 // Alabama has become the seventh state to adopt the “SLIP+ for States” reporting and payment platform for surplus lines data and taxes, starting in 2025. Surplus lines brokers who already have a SLIP+ login do...
Florida, Alabama Hold Hearings on NCCI Workers’ Comp Rate Decreases
Oct 20 2025 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance is again recommending a reduction in workers’ compensation rates in Florida and Alabama, and regulators in both states have scheduled public hearings about the proposed...
IMA Financial Adds Alabama’s Valent Group to the Team
Oct 9 2025 // IMA Financial Group, a a North American insurance brokerage based in Denver, has added Valent Group, one of Alabama’s largest privately held insurance brokers, to its team of affiliated firms. Valent, a subsidiary of...
Georgia Man Indicted After Fishing Tournament Boat Crash That Killed 3 in Alabama
Oct 7 2025 // A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others. Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted...
Authorities Examining Why Concrete Mixer Turned On, Killing Alabama Worker
Sep 17 2025 // An Alabama worker died from blunt force trauma after he he was performing maintenance inside an industrial concrete mixer, a coronor has determined. The investigation is continuing into the death of Edgar Earl Davis IV,...
Alabama DOI Extends Moratorium on New Captives, Risk Retention Groups
Sep 5 2025 // Alabama’s insurance commissioner has extended a moratorium on new captive insurance companies and risk retention groups until at least next summer. The bulletin, posted this week, follows the commissioner’s...
2 Adults Killed, 7 Children Injured in ATV Accident in Alabama Off-Road Park
Sep 4 2025 // Two adults were killed and seven children injured in an accident in a remote area of an all-terrain vehicle park in Alabama, authorities said. No one was wearing a harness or restraint in the off-road vehicle. The...
Alabama Court Cuts Tax Bill for Remote-Working Adjuster, But Questions Remain
Aug 25 2025 // Claims adjusters, many of whom work remotely and travel extensively, can take heart from a recent Alabama court ruling, knowing that they may not have to pay the state’s income taxes, even if the adjusting firm is...
Alabama DOI Posts New Data Call on Liability Insurance
Aug 15 2025 // The Alabama Department of Insurance wants new data on how liability coverage affects insurance claims costs. In a bulletin posted Thursday, Commissioner Mark Fowler said the department has issued a data call to carriers of...
Five Alabama Jail Medical Staff Indicted in Death of Mentally Ill Inmate
Jul 31 2025 // Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held for two weeks in a concrete cell. The indictment unsealed Tuesday...
Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama’s Prisons For Citing Fake Cases From AI
Jul 28 2025 // A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna...
Alabama Man’s Death Ruled a Homicide After Police Kneeled on His Neck
Jul 23 2025 // The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding...
Alabama AG Urges No Pre-Trial Immunity for Ex-Officer Charged With Shooting Man
Jul 16 2025 // A former Alabama police officer charged with murder for shooting an armed Black man in the man’s front yard during a dispute with a tow-truck driver shouldn’t be granted immunity before going to trial, the...
Insurance Fraud Charges Dropped for Former Alabama Congressional Aide
Jul 1 2025 // A former aide to an Alabama congressman, previously sentenced for health care fraud, has been cleared of insurance fraud and other charges related to claims made on her mother’s car in 2022. Sherry McCormick, who was...
Alabama DOI Encourages Insurers to Use More Than Drones in Nonrenewals
Jun 19 2025 // Alabama’s insurance commissioner this week urged property insurers to be judicious in the use of drones and aerial imagery in making nonrenewal decisions, but stopped short of issuing new regulations. “If an...
