All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2022 // Georgia shoppers who are unable to load bulky purchases onto their vehicles by themselves might find store employees less willing to help — or at least being more vigilant if they do lend a hand.The Georgia Supreme Court...
Mar 14 2022 // Former President Donald Trump’s reported grudge against Georgia’s Republican governor has reached downballot, with Trump endorsing a candidate for insurance commissioner who only entered the race last week.The...
Mar 9 2022 // Georgia homeowners and roofers are urging lawmakers to take up a bill that would require insurers to provide full replacement of some types of roofs even when only a few shingles are damaged.Supporters of House Bill 1310...
Mar 2 2022 // Openly, a data-focused homeowners insurer based in Boston, announced that it has expanded into Georgia. The Deep South state is the 17th for the rapidly growing company, which was launched in 2017 and says its platform can...
Feb 23 2022 // Candidates for the office of Georgia insurance commissioner have offered differing solutions to faulty elevators and inspections, six months after an 18-year-old football player was killed when he was pinned in an elevator...
Feb 21 2022 // “We’ve been concerned with having these large numbers of satellites that interfere with astronomical observations … I think we need a little more experience with the several thousand operating satellites...
Feb 17 2022 // Contractors based in Florida, North Carolina and Georgia have been ordered to stop work in New Jersey and now face penalties for allegedly misclassifying workers.The New Jersey Department of Labor said it had issued the...
Feb 17 2022 // The headlines in 2016 provoked an outcry across Georgia: A man stole a car near the Atlanta airport, fled from police in a high-speed chase, then crashed into another vehicle, killing a woman and her two grandchildren.Six...
Feb 14 2022 // Georgia authorities are investigating what may be an Atlanta-based theft ring that has stolen more than two dozen moving trucks, swiping families’ entire belongings in the process.Some of the victims were en route to...
Feb 10 2022 // Although the election is still months away, the race for Georgia insurance commissioner already is a campaign of firsts — and some strong rhetoric aimed at insurance companies and regulators.Janice Laws Robinson, an...
Feb 7 2022 // A Georgia judge has issued an arrest warrant for an Alabama woman who may have forged documents to receive more than three months of insurance benefits after a 2019 car crash. Tessa Blakely, 40, of Fort Mitchell, Alabama,...
Feb 7 2022 // Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly...
Feb 7 2022 // Marsh McLennan, Affinity AgencyAssociation Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of Marsh...
Feb 4 2022 // Like their counterparts in several other states, Georgia lawmakers have been trying to wind down the state’s second-injury fund, the workers’ compensation program designed to cover benefits for workers with...
Feb 3 2022 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency, a large regional independent agency, announced its further expansion into Georgia with the acquisition of Jenkins, Skipworth & Associates in Alpharetta. JSA, an independent insurance agency...
Jan 27 2022 // Supporters spoke passionately Wednesday about the need for workers’ compensation insurance to cover mental health treatment for first responders, but the chair of a Georgia House committee decided to send the bill to...
Jan 26 2022 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency, a large regional agency in the Southeast, announced that it has acquired McNeal Sports & Wilson Risk Advisers, an independent agency in Waycross, Georgia. Oakbridge CEO Robbie Smith said the...
Jan 25 2022 // The Georgia Ethics Commission will continue to pursue campaign-fund allegations against a former state insurance commissioner, despite a judge’s October ruling that the agency had waited too long.In a case that has...
Jan 24 2022 // Thanks to an unexpectedly large state budget surplus for 2021, Georgia’s governor wants to pay off a $150 million backlog of workers’ compensation benefits due to state employees. Gov. Brian Kemp’s budget...
Jan 19 2022 // California-based Relation Insurance Services has reached across the country to acquire trucking industry specialist Allen Insurance Group, headquartered in Georgia. Based in Fort Valley, Georgia, Allen offers commercial...