All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 16 2026 // Georgia’s governor said Wednesday that he wants to spend $1.8 billion to unclog one of traffic-choked Atlanta’s notorious chokepoints on the most important highway between the Midwest and Florida.Republican...
Jan 15 2026 // Georgia lawmakers on Tuesday gave final passage to a bill that aims to void a city of Savannah ordinance that imposes fines and possible jail time for leaving guns in unlocked cars.The state Senate gave final approval to...
Jan 12 2026 // Eliminating state income taxes sounds great to many voters, but Republicans backing the push in multiple states still face questions about whether such big tax cuts can be made without raising other taxes or sharply...
Jan 6 2026 // Georgia lawmakers enacted two consumer-focused statutes that have gone into effect with the New Year that acknowledge and address one simple, but critical fact of life: Time is money.Approved by legislators in May 2025,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...