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Should You Give a Recorded Statement After an Alabama Car Wreck?
Before giving an insurer a recorded statement after an Alabama wreck, learn who is asking, what your policy may require, and how to prepare.
Elliott Lipinsky
2 days ago9 min read


Alabama Drug Charges: Possession, Distribution, and Trafficking
Alabama drug charges are not interchangeable. The substance, alleged conduct, weight, knowledge, and way police obtained the evidence can change both the charge and the defense analysis.
Elliott Lipinsky
3 days ago4 min read


Alabama Medical Liens After an Injury Settlement: What Clients Should Know
Medical bills and lien claims can affect the amount an injured Alabama client receives. Learn what records to keep and what to review before signing a release.
Elliott Lipinsky
5 days ago2 min read


Alabama Preliminary Hearings: Deadlines, Evidence, and When They Matter
Learn Alabama preliminary-hearing deadlines, what evidence the judge may consider, possible outcomes, and when the hearing may help a felony defense.
Elliott Lipinsky
5 days ago4 min read


Rainy Day and Low Visibility Wrecks in Selma: How Weather Changes an Injury Claim
Rain, fog, and glare do not excuse a Selma driver from adjusting speed and following distance to match conditions. Weather does not erase fault, but it can create genuine disputes about what caused a crash. Because Alabama follows a pure contributory negligence rule, proving the other driver's fault, not just the weather, is what determines whether an injured person recovers anything. Does bad weather excuse a driver who causes a wreck in Selma? No. Alabama traffic law does n
Elliott Lipinsky
Sep 105 min read


How to Get Your Selma Crash Report and What It Does and Does Not Prove
You can request your official Alabama crash report online through ALEA for a fifteen dollar fee, or in person at a Driver License office. The report documents what officers observed at the scene, but it does not automatically decide fault, and insurance companies often dispute what it means for your Selma car accident claim. What Is the Alabama Uniform Traffic Crash Report? Every law enforcement agency in Alabama, including the Selma Police Department, the Dallas County Sheri
Elliott Lipinsky
Sep 85 min read


Who Investigates Your Selma Car Accident: Selma Police, Dallas County Sheriff, or ALEA
Which agency investigates your Selma car accident usually depends on where the crash happened. Selma Police Department generally handles wrecks inside the city limits, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office typically covers crashes outside those limits, and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency may respond to certain state highway or interstate crashes depending on the circumstances. Who Responds to a Car Accident Inside Selma City Limits? When a wreck happens within Selma's city li
Elliott Lipinsky
Sep 34 min read


Car Wrecks on the US-80 Corridor Through Selma: Why This Highway Produces Serious Injury Claims
A practical guide to US-80 car wrecks near Selma: immediate steps, disappearing evidence, insurance coverage, Alabama fault law, filing deadlines, and when to seek legal help.
Elliott Lipinsky
Sep 15 min read
520 Days, Over 100,000 Patients: What the Huntsville Hospital Data Breach Timeline Leaves Unanswered
A hospital can hold a patient's name, Social Security number, and complete medical history in the same file for decades without incident, then lose control of all of it in days. What happens next, how long the hospital takes to find out, how long it takes to tell the people affected, and how much it says once it does, is where accountability is either upheld or quietly set aside. In the case of Huntsville Hospital Health System, north Alabama's largest hospital network, the g
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 2711 min read
131,000 Patients, 67 Days, One $850,000 Settlement: What the Alabama Ophthalmology Associates Data Breach Shows About Medical Privacy Accountability
A patient's Social Security number sat inside a compromised computer network for more than a week before anyone noticed. Then, according to the practice's own breach notification, more than two additional months passed before letters went out to the people whose information was taken. That gap, between when a hacking incident is discovered and when the people harmed by it are actually told, is where accountability in medical data breaches is won or lost. The Alabama Ophthalmo
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 2310 min read
13,720 Pounds, 97 Days, Zero Confirmed Illnesses: The Suzanna's Kitchen Listeria Recall in Alabama
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced on January 19, 2026, that Suzanna's Kitchen, a Georgia based food service company, was recalling approximately 13,720 pounds of ready to eat grilled chicken breast fillets because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, the company had already produced the chicken more than three months earlier, on October 14, 2025. In the space between those two dates, cases of the product moved
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 228 min read
45 Days by Law, Nearly 8 Months in Practice: The Gardendale, Alabama Data Breach Timeline
Alabama law gives government agencies and companies up to 45 days to notify residents once they determine that a data breach has occurred. In Gardendale, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb of roughly 16,000 residents, published reports place the ransomware intrusion that struck city computer systems in early June 2025. Residents did not begin receiving formal notification letters describing what happened until months later, with local news coverage placing the notification process
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 2010 min read


Your First Court Date in an Alabama District Court: A Plain English Walkthrough
Check in early, plead not guilty, ask for counsel if you need it, and leave with a new date. A plain English walkthrough of an Alabama district court morning from Selma attorney Elliott Lipinsky.
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 193 min read
2 MorningStar Farms Products Recalled, 0 Injuries Confirmed: What the June 2026 Plastic Contamination Recall Means for Alabama Families
On June 18, 2026, Kellanova and its MorningStar Farms brand announced a voluntary recall of two frozen plant based products sold in grocery stores across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, after customers reported finding pieces of plastic inside the packages. The Food and Drug Administration posted the recall notice on FDA.gov within days, adding a layer of federal visibility to what began as a company announcement. For a family in Selma, Montgomery, or anywhere
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 189 min read
3 Moringa Supplement Recalls, 119 Illnesses, 1 Strain Resistant to All Antibiotics
Three different moringa supplement brands were pulled from shelves and online stores across the United States between January and June of 2026, tied to Salmonella outbreaks that together sickened at least 119 people in at least 36 states. One of those outbreaks involved a strain of Salmonella that laboratory testing found resistant to every first line and alternative antibiotic doctors would normally reach for. Another recall, announced May 25, 2026 by Mogo Moringa LLC of St.
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 1410 min read


Dog Bites and Animal Attacks in Alabama: Who Pays and When
Alabama dog bite law runs on two tracks. A statute, Alabama Code Section 3-6-1, covers people bitten while lawfully on the owner's property or chased from it, but lets an owner who had no reason to know the dog was dangerous limit damages to actual expenses. Everywhere else, the common law one bite rule applies, and the victim must show the owner knew or should have known the dog was dangerous. Either way, the deadline is two years. The two tracks decide what you must prove,
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 143 min read
29,000 State Employees, One Password Reset Order, Zero Names Disclosed: Inside Alabama's May 2025 State Cyberattack
On the evening of Friday, May 9, 2025, something went wrong inside the computer network that runs much of Alabama's state government. By the time officials said anything publicly, it was Monday morning, and the message was carefully worded: a "cybersecurity event" had disrupted state systems, some state employee usernames and passwords had been compromised, and residents were told it was currently believed that no Alabamian's personal information had been taken. Three weeks a
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 1010 min read
1 Recalled Dairy Ingredient, 40+ Grocery Products, Zero Confirmed Illnesses: What the 2026 California Dairies Salmonella Recall Means for Alabama Families
One recalled ingredient. More than forty different snack, bakery, and beverage products pulled from grocery shelves across the country. Zero confirmed illnesses reported to federal regulators as of this writing. Those three numbers, taken together, describe one of the more unusual food safety events of 2026, and they point to a gap between how large a recall can grow and how little the public is actually told about who ate the affected food and whether anyone got sick. The ev
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 610 min read


Uninsured Motorist Coverage in Alabama: The Insurance You Did Not Know You Had
The driver who hit you may have no insurance at all. Selma attorney Elliott Lipinsky explains the uninsured motorist coverage built into every Alabama auto policy and how to use it.
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 33 min read
Nara Organics Infant Formula Recall: 3 Babies Hospitalized, 16 Lots Pulled, Second Botulism Outbreak in Eight Months
Three infants in three different states were hospitalized this spring after being fed a powdered organic formula their parents believed was safe. On June 13, 2026, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Nara Organics had agreed to recall every single lot of its Nara Organics Whole Milk Organic Powdered Infant Formula, sold nationally at Target stores, on Target.com, and directly through Nara.com. The reason was as serious as it gets in infant nutrition: possible cont
Elliott Lipinsky
Aug 210 min read
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