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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Alabama Accident NewsMontgomery County, Alabama | August 25, 2026 Both drivers were killed and a passenger was seriously injured early Saturday morning in a two-vehicle collision on southbound Interstate 85 on Montgomery’s east side. When officers arrived, one of the two vehicles was on fire. The Montgomery Police Department is investigating, and no cause has been announced. Two families lost someone...
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Jefferson County, Alabama | August 25, 2026 Two people were killed early Sunday morning when the Honda Civic they were riding in was involved in a two-vehicle collision on southbound Interstate 65 at the Green Springs exit in Birmingham. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as a 24-year-old Birmingham man and a woman whose age and hometown...
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ArticlesWritten by Fob James IV, Esq. | Fob James Law Firm, LLC | Last Updated: September 4, 2026 Hair Relaxer Litigation — September 2026 Status No settlement exists. No global settlement has been announced and no plaintiff has been paid through the MDL 12,129 cases are pending in MDL 3060 as of the September 1, 2026 JPML report before...
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Alabama Accident NewsA 65-year-old Mountain Brook man was killed when a vehicle struck the bicycle he was riding on Crestwood Boulevard in Irondale on August 17, 2026.
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Alabama Accident NewsA 39-year-old Odenville woman was killed and two children were injured in a head-on crash on U.S. 411 in Moody on August 17, 2026.
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ArticlesAlabama is one of the most heavily forested states in the country, with timberland covering roughly two-thirds of the state, and that timber moves on trucks. Log trucks are a daily presence on rural highways from Clanton to Camden, and they combine nearly every risk factor in trucking: extreme weights, shifting cylindrical cargo, slow entries onto fast two-lane roads,...
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Autauga County, Alabama | August 15, 2026 A 58-year-old Elmore man was killed on the night of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, when the car he was driving was struck from behind by another vehicle on Interstate 65 in Autauga County, roughly 10 miles north of Prattville. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle,...
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