Latest Alabama Headlines
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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...
Authorities: Man Fleeing Police in Alabama Caused Crash That Injured Gayle Manchin
Feb 5 2024 // HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) — A man fleeing police caused the Alabama car crash that injured Gayle Manchin, head of an economic development partnership of the federal government and 13 state governments and the wife of U.S. Sen....
Greyhound Bus and SUV Collide in Northern Alabama, Killing Motorist
Feb 1 2024 // ARDMORE, Ala. (AP) — A Greyhound bus and a car collided on a northern Alabama road, killing a man and injuring the bus driver and eight bus passengers, authorities said Tuesday. The crash happened shortly after 10 p.m....
COVID Liability Immunity Includes Slips and Falls at Hospital – Alabama High Court
Jan 29 2024 // 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...
Alabama’s Starke Agency Acquires University Insurance in Auburn
Jan 16 2024 // Starke Agency, an insurance brokerage in Montgomery, Alabama, has acquired University Insurance Agency in Auburn, one of the oldest brokers in the city. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Starke said in a news...
Alabama City Councilman Charged With Insurance Fraud
Jan 16 2024 // Alabama authorities last week charged a city councilman with insurance fraud, alleging that he falsely claimed he had purchased a BMW vehicle. Derrick Griffin, a councilman in Prichard, next to Mobile, was indicted by a...
Alabama Wind Mitigation Grant Application Process Opens for Q1
Jan 3 2024 // The application process for another round of Alabama home-fortification grants opened Wednesday, Jan. 3, offering up to $10,000 for homeowners who retrofit their homes to make them more wind resistant. The grants,...
Judge Blocks Alabama Cannabis Licenses Amid Dispute Over Selection Process
Jan 3 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge temporarily blocked Alabama from issuing licenses to medical marijuana dispensaries amid an ongoing legal battle over how the state selected the winning companies. Montgomery Circuit...
Man Charged After 2 Killed in Alabama Police Chase
Jan 3 2024 // VALLEY, Ala. (AP) — A man faces murder charges after two people were killed in a head-on collision during a police chase, state law enforcement officials said Friday. The fatal crash occurred Thursday morning in...
‘Smash-and-Grab’ Robberies Fuel New Laws, but Critics Question the Need
Jan 2 2024 // Even before Virginia lawmakers passed a tough new law against organized retail crime earlier this year, Bradley Haywood, a public defender in Arlington, Virginia, challenged the rationale. The idea that retailers in the...
Appraisal Isn’t Arbitration, Alabama High Court Says in Dismissing Insurer Appeal
Dec 29 2023 // 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...
Alabama Agency Completes Review of Fatal Police Shooting in Repo Incident
Dec 28 2023 // DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Tuesday that it has completed an investigation into a fatal police shooting where a man was killed in his front yard during a dispute with a tow truck...
Answering the 3 Big Questions About Citizenship Affidavits in Insurance Licensing
Dec 27 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. An insurance license can be the doorway to a rewarding and lucrative career. You might even say insurance is a field ripe for the making of the American Dream. So, how...
Alabama Supreme Court Orders Lindberg and Company to Pay $11M Note to Med Firm
Dec 5 2023 // The legal and financial troubles for former insurance executive and international businessman Greg Lindberg, now awaiting a second trial on charges that he tried to bribe a state insurance commissioner, has spread far...
Wolf-Dog Hybrid Pet Kills 3-Month-Old Child in Alabama
Dec 4 2023 // CHELSEA, Ala. (AP) — A 3-month-old boy was killed as his parents tried to rescue the baby from the family pet, a hybrid animal that was part dog, part wolf, authorities said. The boy had been bitten but was alive...
Alabama Begins $13.6M Rebuild of Pier Damaged in Hurricane Sally
Nov 27 2023 // GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Hurricane Sally wiped out a 200-foot (61-meter) section of the Gulf State Park Fishing Pier on the Alabama coast in September 2020 just as it was about to reopen after a $2.4 million rebuild...
Alabama Firms Settle Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Claims
Nov 21 2023 // Mueller Co., a nationwide manufacturer and seller of gas and water distribution products, and IH Services, Inc., which provides cleaning services in Mueller facilities, has agreed to pay $150,000 and provide other relief...
Poaching, Sexual Harassment, Sabotage? Alabama Insurance Agency Suits Air it Out
Nov 20 2023 // A dispute between two veteran west Alabama insurance agents has made it all the way to the state Supreme Court after three years of civil litigation, suggestions of criminal activity and claims of sexual harassment,...
Alabama’s WRM Group Joins Higginbotham
Nov 16 2023 // WRM Group, formed just over a year ago with the merger of two of Alabama’s oldest insurance agencies, has now joined Higginbotham, one of the largest agency groups in the Southeast. Terms and details of the...
Higginbotham Expands Collegiate Athletics Investment With LEARFIELD, Adds 10 Southern Universities to Portfolio
Nov 9 2023 // Higginbotham announced the expansion of its multi-year investment in collegiate athletics to include ten universities in the southern region of the United States through its continued sponsorship agreement with LEARFIELD,...
