All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2022 // A Georgia county and sheriff’s office discriminated when it denied health insurance for a deputy seeking gender reassignment surgery, a federal court decided.U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell last week found that...
Jun 6 2022 // Hub International, a global insurance brokerage firm, has acquired Georgia-based Alexander & Co., an employee benefits firm for school districts and local governments. Headquartered in Woodstock, Georgia, the...
Jun 1 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry...
May 31 2022 // Searchers recovered the bodies of three missing boaters Sunday after two vessels collided on a Georgia river, bringing the crash’s death toll to five people. One of the surviving boaters was charged with boating...
May 26 2022 // Georgia’s incumbent insurance commissioner easily survived a Republican primary challenge from a candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump. The Democratic candidate will be decided by a runoff.Commissioner...
May 23 2022 // A former Georgia insurance commissioner has been indicted on federal charges related to an alleged health care scheme.A federal grand jury last Tuesday indicted John Oxendine on charges of conspiracy to commit health care...
May 13 2022 // A long-running investigation into a former Georgia insurance commissioner has finally come to an end.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that former Commissioner John Oxendine agreed to turn over about $128,000 in...
May 5 2022 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency in Atlanta has named Scott Kiser as senior vice president ant private client group practice leader. Kiser Kiser, with 28 years in the property-casualty insurance business, was previously head of...
May 3 2022 // Residents of a Black neighborhood in north Georgia lost more than $5 million on their properties when their homes were destroyed and replaced with university dorms and parking lots more than 50 years ago, according to an...
Apr 15 2022 // A Georgia insurance company owner has been sentenced to eight months in prison after prosecutors said he lied in bankruptcy court and on his federal tax returns.Jacques Andres Frym, 53, who owned businesses in the Savannah...
Apr 12 2022 // Georgia authorities were searching for a South Georgia insurance agent who allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in premium payments but never provided insurance policies. Georgia’s insurance...
Apr 7 2022 // Violent storms killed three people in the South Tuesday, including one in Georgia, as another swarm of tornadoes and hailstorms tore across the region.A woman died Tuesday evening in Pembroke, Georgia, where a suspected...
Apr 7 2022 // The Georgia General Assembly this week passed a bill that adopts National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ recommendations for insurance holding companies, including calculations for group capital and a...
Apr 5 2022 // Four years after the operator of a street sweeper was crushed by the machine, a Georgia jury has awarded the man’s family $2.2 million in damages from the manufacturer.The jury in Gwinnett County awarded a total of...
Apr 5 2022 // Alabama and Georgia are poised to join the ranks of those states making it clear that drivers for Uber, Lyft, Grubhub and other delivery and ride-sharing apps should be considered independent contractors, not employees...
Mar 30 2022 // A man who helped supply undocumented and uninsured immigrant labor to a tree removal company in Georgia has pleaded guilty to aiding in the 2017 murder of a worker who tried to blow the whistle on the practices.Federal...
Mar 29 2022 // Georgia’s insurance commissioner has issued a directive to auto insurers to include the full amount of sales tax when settling a total-loss vehicle claim.“When calculating taxes to be paid to an insured on a...
Mar 18 2022 // The Georgia insurance commissioner has joined his California counterpart in calling on insurers to divest their Russian business interests in the midst of the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine.“The fact that the...
Mar 17 2022 // A plan to make mental stress a compensable condition for Georgia’s first responders never made it out of committee in the Georgia General Assembly. House Bill 855, sponsored by Rep. Gregg Kennard and others, would...
Mar 16 2022 // A payment of the policy limits is not always enough to settle a vehicle accident. The insurer must also agree to all other requirements in a settlement offer for an agreement to be enforceable, the Georgia Court of Appeals...