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Georgia Regulators Approve Huge Electric Generation Increase for Data Centers

Dec 24 2025 // Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers.It would be one of the...

Son of Ponzi-Accused Georgia Building & Loan Founder Now an Insurance Agent

Dec 19 2025 // The former co-leader of a collapsed Georgia savings and loan, a lending firm that is now the subject of state and federal Ponzi scheme investigations, has been granted an insurance producer’s license in the...

Higginbotham Adds Energy Sector Specialty Firm in Georgia

Dec 19 2025 // Higginbotham, ranked as one of the top-20 largest independent insurance brokerages in the U.S., has continued its growth with the addition of Charter Energy, a specialty insurance brokerage in Atlanta. Charter was founded...

Georgia Commissioner Touts More Auto Rate Reductions by Major Insurers

Dec 17 2025 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King announced more auto insurance rate reductions for motorists in the state—the second announcement in as many months. King credited tort-reform laws and stepped-up efforts to combat...

FEMA to Send Georgia $300M in Helene Aid After Accusations of Delays

Dec 15 2025 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby. The...

Man Sentenced for Flashing Three Insurance Agencies in Georgia

Dec 12 2025 // A man convicted of flashing workers at three insurance agencies in Warner Robins, Georgia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.Demarcus Tyrell Mann, 30, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in October, after he was...

UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance

Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...

Verlan Files Subrogation Suit Against Georgia Chemical Plant After $20M Payout on Fire

Dec 9 2025 // About 5 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2024, an employee at the Bio-Lab chemical warehouse outside Atlanta heard a popping sound, a tell-tale sign that stored chemicals had come in contact with water and were reacting.Within 90...

OSHA Fines Korean Construction Firm $20,000 After Georgia Worker’s Death

Dec 8 2025 // Following the death of a worker at a Georgia solar systems plant in May, a federal safety agency has cited a construction firm for serious violations. But the fine levied against Hyoungwon E&C America is only about...

Dunkin’ Cashier in Georgia, Stabbed by Rapper, Can’t Claim More Than Workers’ Comp

Dec 8 2025 // A Dunkin’ Donuts cashier who was stabbed by an Atlanta-area rapper has only the workers’ compensation remedy, even if the incident seems far outside the scope of work duties, the Georgia Court of Appeals has...

‘Agent of the Year’ in Georgia Sentenced to 2+ Years After Misusing Premium Payments

Nov 24 2025 // A central Georgia insurance agency owner and former Alfa insurance agent of the year must serve more than two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud and misusing more than $220,000 in premiums.Jeremy...

As in Florida, Georgia Saw Big Jump in Lawsuits Ahead of Major Litigation Limits

Nov 10 2025 // Florida insurers will no doubt remember the time more than two years ago when one of the largest plaintiffs’ law firms in the state gave notice that it was planning to file tens of thousands of claims lawsuits ahead...

Ga. Court: Ambulance Chasing Not a RICO Claim But Fake Immigrant Papers Might Be

Nov 5 2025 // The Georgia Court of Appeals this week handed down multiple decisions, three of which could indirectly affect property and liability insurance coverage in the state for years to come.In a case over a deliberately set...

Former NFL Players, Country Singer Lend Names to Georgia-Based Concierge Launch

Oct 17 2025 // Two former professional football players, a country music artist and a college athletics administrator have put their names, images and likenesses behind a new, concierge insurance program for high net-worth individuals,...

Semi-Trailer Crash Into Van Kills 7 on Northeast Georgia Highway

Oct 15 2025 // Seven people were killed in a fiery crash on a highway in Georgia on Monday afternoon when a semi-trailer struck a van and it burst into flames, according to law enforcement.The semi-trailer was following too close to the...

Dogs Kill Toddler at Unlicensed Georgia Daycare Center

Oct 10 2025 // A 2-year-old boy in south Georgia was attacked by two Rottweiler dogs and died at an unlicensed daycare center while the owner napped, according to police.Stacy Wheeler Cobb, the 48-year-old owner who held the daycare at...

Georgia Man Indicted After Fishing Tournament Boat Crash That Killed 3 in Alabama

Oct 7 2025 // A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others.Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted Thursday...

Georgia Man Indicted a Year After Arrest for Posing as Insurance Agent

Oct 6 2025 // More than a year after he was charged, a Georgia businessman known as “Dr. Taxes” has been indicted for posing as an insurance agent and swiping hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation...

Insurers Fighting $345 Million Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording Again at Issue

Oct 6 2025 // In one of the longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent policies...

Georgia Farmers Should Get $531M in Helene Aid But the Deal’s Not Done Yet

Oct 3 2025 // The wait continues for Georgia farmers who need more aid after Hurricane Helene, even as state and federal officials in other states announce agreements.The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Georgia Agriculture...