Southeast News for July 2021
- Feds Sue North Carolina County Over Firing of 911 Operator Who Reported Sexual Harassment
- Mississippi ICU Capacity ‘Extinguished’ by Latest COVID Spike
- Global Empowerment Mission Provides Housing Assistance for Surfside Victims
- Alabama COVID Hospitalizations Soar
- People Moves: Monarch E&S Hires Currier; Howden Specialty Names Two Executive Directors for Financial Lines Division
- West Virginia Lawsuit Over Opioids Reaches Closing Arguments
- In Opioid Trial Closing, West Virginia Blames Drug Distributors. Distributors Blame Doctors.
- North Carolina County to Pay $1.25M to Family of Woman Killed in Accident With Sheriff’s Deputy
- Officials Propose $1M Fine for Georgia Nitrogen Leak That Killed 6
- Disney to Resume Florida-Based Cruises in August
- Court Affirms Miami Condo Tower Hurricane Damage Award That Disappointed Both Sides
- North Carolina Civil Rights Groups Reach Settlement Over 2020 Clash With Police
- Duke Energy Builds Flood Walls Around South Carolina Electric Substation
- Gulfstream Insurance Admits Insolvency, Agrees to Liquidate
- Judge: Florida Condo Collapse to Receive $150m in Initial Compensation
- Florida COVID Cases Jump 65% From Previous Week
- Appeals Court Blocks CDC Pandemic Restrictions For Florida-Based Cruises
- North Carolina Senate Finance Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Bill
- Drugmaker Endo Agrees to $35m Opioid Settlement With Tennessee Local Governments
- Alabama Reports July Spike in COVID-19 Cases
- Jury Convicts Suspended Georgia Commissioner Beck on Fraud, Laundering Charges
- Heavy Rains Cause Sewer Overflows, Flood Problems in Alabama
- Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck Takes Stand at Fraud Trial
- Mississippi Health Official: State Seeing Rapid Increase in July COVID-19 Cases
- Judge OKs Distribution For $192M South Carolina Failed Nuclear Project Settlement
- Florida Vacation Rental Voluntarily Evacuated Due to Balcony Cracks
- Bradenton, Florida Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Elderly Investors
- People Moves: Lockton Names Presidents; Moxley Joins IOA Tallahassee Office
- Florida Gov. DeSantis Pledges to Fight Against CDC COVID Cruise Ship Rules
- Florida Litigated Claims Spiked in June
- Rescue Efforts Fell Short for Gulfstream Insurance
- U.S. Appeals Court Sides With CDC Over Florida on COVID Rules for Cruise Ships
- Witness Says Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Used Arson Money to Buy Campaign Signs
- Elsa-Related Tornado Causes $1 Million in Damage in Port Royal, S.C.
- Kentucky To Rebid Unemployment Insurance System Amidst Cybersecurity Concerns
- Florida Judge Approves Sale of Property Where Collapsed Surfside Condo Stood
- Columbus, Georgia To Pay $500,000 To Settle 2017 Police Custody Death
- Florida’s Citizens Insurance Seeks Rate Increase as Policy Count Skyrockets
- West Virginia Attorney General Opposes Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan
- Trial Underway For Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck
- Norwegian Cruise Line Sues Florida Over COVID Vaccine Passport Ban
- Hurricane Elsa Insured Loss Estimated To Be $290 Million
- Judge Dismisses Alabama Candidate Moore’s $95M Suit Against Comedian, Showtime
- South Carolina Shifts Insurance Fraud Investigations to Insurance Department
- Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner To Go On Trial In Theft Case
- Florida Officials Consider Adopting New Condo Inspection Policies
- South Carolina Agency Clears Fired Charleston Police Lieutenant of Misconduct
- Federal Judge Halts Part of Florida’s New Property Insurance Reform Law
- Columbia County, Georgia Fire Ruled Arson
- Tropical Storm Elsa Leaves One Dead in Florida, Several Injured at Georgia Navy Base
- Surfside Condo Collapse Rescue Workers Transition to Recovery Phase
- Weakened Tropical Storm Elsa Mostly Spares Southeast as It Moves Through Carolinas
- Search For Survivors at Surfside Condo Collapse Site Called Off
- Kentucky Extends Deadline For Federal Storm Relief
- Tropical Storm Elsa Weakens Over Northern Florida
- Tennessee Doctor Accused of Using Wrong Test to Clear Patients of COVID
- Southeastern Alabama Utility Hit By Ransomware Attack
- Update: Tropical Storm Elsa Moving Up Florida’s West Coast; Other States in Path
- Condo Collapse: Everyone Will Point Fingers But Florida Laws Narrow Liability
- 5 Lawsuits Filed in Surfside Condo Collapse; Judge Says $48M Insurance Not Enough
- Tropical Storm Elsa Threatens to Pound Florida’s West Coast This Week
- Technology Experts to Analyze Cause of Surfside Condo Collapse
- Economist Says Huntington, West Virginia Opioid Response Will Cost $2.5 billion
- Environmentalists To Sue West Virginia Over Pollution At Greensdale Coals Site
- Sedgwick Acquires Maritime Claims Firm Nautilus
- Grand Jury Will Probe Surfside Condo Collapse
- Judge Blocks Florida Law That Penalizes Social Media Firms
- West Virginia Pharmacies Owner Fined In Prescription Probe
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