All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2022 // A Georgia insurance agent is facing additional charges after she was arrested in July for allegedly keeping premium refund checks that were intended for policyholders.Kerri Monroe, 48, of Lyons, Georgia, in late July was...
Aug 22 2022 // The Georgia insurance commissioner is publicly shaming one of the country’s largest auto insurers after the carrier announced an average 25% rate increase in the state.“I am angry and disappointed that Allstate...
Aug 18 2022 // A Georgia man was indicted on homicide charges Wednesday, after a Memorial Day weekend boat collision that killed five people. Mark Stegall was indicted on 10 counts of first-degree homicide by a vessel, USA Today...
Aug 18 2022 // Dollar General faces nearly $1.3 million in penalties after government inspectors visited three of the chain’s stores in Georgia earlier this year and found worker-safety violations, federal regulators said...
Aug 17 2022 // MagMutual Insurance Co. and MDAdvantage Holdings Inc. have reached an agreement for MagMutual, headquartered in Atlanta, to acquire MDAdvantage Insurance Co., based in New Jersey.MDAdvantage, according to AM Best, is one...
Aug 16 2022 // Conservationists and academics are researching ways to insure sensitive salt marshes in Georgia against degradation and loss, perhaps with parametric policies similar to those used to cover some coral reefs.Georgia Public...
Aug 15 2022 // A Georgia dairy farm has been fined after a release of food waste caused a fish kill, a rare instance of government getting involved with a practice that counties can’t regulate despite chronic complaints from...
Aug 11 2022 // Higginbotham, an independent insurance and human resources firm, has kept up its pace of steady growth with the recent acquisition of Georgia-based Holman and Co., a broker of commercial and personal lines property and...
Aug 5 2022 // Alera Group, an independent P/C and benefits firm, has acquired Jowers-Sklar Insurance, a Georgia-based independent agency specializing in property and casualty insurance in the Southeast. The agency serves Floyd County,...
Jul 25 2022 // Twenty men who said they were sexually abused at a prestigious boarding school in Georgia are now suing the school’s insurance companies for $345 million. The insurers argue that their policies did not cover the...
Jul 20 2022 // An Atlanta truck driver is charged with vehicular homicide after a northwest Georgia wreck left two adults dead and three children injured.Joseph Chislom, 47, remained jailed without bail Sunday in Catoosa County after the...
Jul 18 2022 // The Independent Insurance Association of Georgia has installed longtime member Michael Iverson as president of the organization. Iverson is CEO of the M.D. Iverson Group, an insurance agency in Fairburn, Georgia. He has...
Jul 8 2022 // The Georgia Commissioner of Insurance will hold a hearing in August on a slew of proposed rule changes, affecting everything from fire safety at self-serve gas pumps and group homes to insurance agency license renewals.The...
Jul 5 2022 // A federal court in Georgia has refused to dismiss a construction company from a lawsuit over wetlands violations, even though the company did not own the property at the time of the alleged dumping of dredge material.The...
Jul 1 2022 // Several Alabama and Georgia laws that could indirectly affect property, liability and workers’ compensation insurance take effect today, July 1.Alabama House Bill 108 requires the state Elevator Safety Review Board...
Jun 29 2022 // An Atlanta-area physician and owner of medical clinics has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for defrauding health insurance companies, a scheme that also has led to the indictment of former Georgia Insurance...
Jun 14 2022 // Police charged three boys with arson in fires that destroyed three historic homes in an Atlanta suburb over the weekend.Two 14-year-olds and one 15-year-old were arrested Wednesday at their homes in Clayton County,...
Jun 14 2022 // A half-century ago, an explosion ripped through a Georgia factory that made flares for use by the Army in the Vietnam War, killing 29 workers and injuring 50 more.But today, few people remember the accident in Woodbine,...
Jun 12 2022 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Georgia pillow manufacturer for repeat violations after four accidents that left workers with amputated fingers..Place Vendome Holding Co., operating as...
Jun 8 2022 // Georgia arson investigators are helping in the probe of a suspicious fire that destroyed three historic homes over the weekend. Insurance Commissioner John King said that investigators examined the remains of the three...