Alabama Accident NewsJefferson County, Alabama | September 17, 2026 A 56-year-old Birmingham man and his 22-year-old son were killed late Sunday night on Interstate 65 North in Birmingham after the younger man’s car broke down and the two ended up on foot in the travel lanes. According to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, the father was struck shortly before midnight and...
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ArticlesLast Updated: September 4, 2026 We get this question every week, usually from a woman who has used relaxers since she was a girl and has just been handed a cancer diagnosis. The honest answer is that qualifying comes down to three things: what you were diagnosed with, how long and how often you used the products, and whether...
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ArticlesThe short answer, as of September 2026 No AFFF personal injury payouts have been made, and none are scheduled. There is no settlement fund for people who got sick, and no trial date on the calendar The billions you have read about are water utility money. 3M’s settlement pays public water systems to clean up contamination. It pays nothing...
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ArticlesLast Updated: September 4, 2026 On August 26, 2026, eight days into testimony in Oakland, Meta settled the case brought by 51 state attorneys general for $16.7 billion. It is the largest payment any social media company has made over harm to children, and it ended a trial that was supposed to run into October. Our phones started ringing...
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Alabama Accident NewsConecuh County, Alabama | September 5, 2026 Two pickup trucks collided on U.S. Highway 31 about two miles east of Evergreen at roughly 6 a.m. on Thursday, September 3, 2026. Both drivers were killed. Two passengers riding in one of the trucks survived and were taken to a Montgomery hospital. The wreck closed U.S. 31 and U.S. 84 for...
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Alabama Accident NewsJefferson County, Alabama | September 5, 2026 A 54-year-old Birmingham woman was struck by a vehicle on Graymont Avenue West on the night of Sunday, August 30, 2026. Emergency crews took her to UAB Hospital, where she was pronounced dead twenty-eight minutes later. The driver who hit her did not stop. Nearly a week later, the Birmingham Police Department...
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ArticlesOzempic Lawsuit — September 2026 Status Two separate cases: 4,022 lawsuits over gastrointestinal injuries sit in MDL 3094, and 216 lawsuits over sudden vision loss sit in MDL 3163. Both are before Judge Karen S. Marston in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, but they are years apart in maturity The decisive moment is now: from September 10 through 18,...
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ArticlesAlabama recognizes two very different lawsuits when someone is hurt and later dies: the wrongful death claim and the survival action. They answer different questions, pay different damages to different people, and, in a rule that traps the unwary, Alabama handles the survival side unlike almost any other state. Families who understand the difference protect claims that others lose...
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ArticlesMost Alabama wrongful death cases resolve within one to three years, with strong, clear-liability cases sometimes settling in under a year and complex corporate cases running longer. But the honest answer is that the timeline is built from stages, each with its own clock, and families who understand the stages stop feeling lost inside the process. Here is the...
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Alabama Accident NewsShelby County, Alabama | August 25, 2026 Drivers heading south on Interstate 65 through Calera on Tuesday were doing something completely ordinary: passing under a bridge. Shortly before noon, a piece of construction equipment being hauled down the interstate struck the underside of the County Road 87 overpass at Exit 234. The bridge took a heavy hit, part of...
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