All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2021 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency LLC, an independent insurance and risk management advisor, has formed a partnership with The Greer Agency, Inc of Georgia. Oakbridge and Greer closed the transaction on May 3, 2021, and terms of...
May 7 2021 // Positive Physicians Insurance Co. has been approved by the Florida and Georgia departments of insurance to offer medical malpractice insurance within their respective states.The company obtained admitted status in Florida...
May 5 2021 // Middle Georgia’s largest private employer says it’s trying to hire another 500 workers.GEICO, the Maryland-based insurance company owned by financial conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, says it’s trying to...
May 4 2021 // Firefighters in coastal Georgia are battling a large fire that ignited inside a warehouse filled with wood pellets.The blaze erupted Sunday night at the Port of Brunswick, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Savannah....
May 3 2021 // Georgia’s governor is removing many remaining requirements for social distancing and masked employees from businesses, saying that the state’s efforts to control COVID-19 have been successful even as its...
Apr 30 2021 // A Democratic state House member announced on Wednesday that he’s running for Georgia insurance commissioner, aiming to defeat appointed Republican incumbent John King.Rep. Matthew Wilson of Brookhaven said he will...
Apr 29 2021 // Demolition of a cargo ship that overturned on the Georgia coast reached the halfway mark Monday as a towering crane lifted the vessel’s engine room section away from the rest of the shipwreck for removal by barge.The...
Apr 29 2021 // An Atlanta-area sheriff who’s no stranger to controversy is accused of violating the civil rights of several people in his agency’s custody by ordering that they be unnecessarily strapped into a restraint chair...
Apr 27 2021 // GEICO Indemnity Co.’s refusal to settle a bodily injury claim for $30,000 will cost it more than $2.7 million, under a ruling last week by the Georgia Supreme Court.The high court’s 7-0 decision answered three...
Apr 26 2021 // At least six people died and several others were hurt in an interstate crash in Georgia that left a passenger van engulfed in flames and rolled on its side, police said.Passersby stopped to pull people from the burning...
Apr 20 2021 // A suburban Atlanta barbecue restaurant owner will get $1.7 million to settle a federal lawsuit claiming he was harassed by government officials and employees.The city of Stockbridge’s insurer will pay the money to...
Apr 19 2021 // At least 25 people were hurt when a floor collapsed during a massive party at a two-story house near the University of Georgia.Athens Clarke-County police said the incident happened around 1 a.m. Friday in Athens. Police...
Apr 19 2021 // Three houses that burned in Savannah earlier this month are believed to have been set on fire by burglars. Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King said Thursday that investigators have ruled the fires to be arsons and...
Apr 14 2021 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King on Monday launched his 2022 election campaign.King is a Republican. He was the Doraville police chief and had no insurance experience when Gov. Brian Kemp named him commissioner in...
Apr 6 2021 // The Georgia Department of Public Safety has settled with 26 of the troopers it fired after they were accused of cheating on an exam.All but two of these former troopers were offered their jobs back as part of the...
Apr 5 2021 // Some schools in a county hard-hit by recent storms will remain closed for a couple of weeks as cleanup continues, school officials said. The entire district remained closed, Coweta County Superintendent Evan Horton said...
Mar 29 2021 // A gas leak forced officials Sunday to evacuate some residents in Newnan, a Georgia city cleaning up after a powerful tornado days earlier ripped roofs off numerous homes and buildings.Newnan city officials ordered...
Mar 23 2021 // Salvage crews cutting a wrecked cargo ship into giant chunks along the Georgia coast last week lifted away the third big section to be severed from the vessel since demolition began four months ago.The South Korean...
Mar 22 2021 // At least 10 tornadoes struck Alabama and Mississippi this week during a severe weather outbreak that could have been worse if temperatures hadn’t remained relatively low, forecasters said.Teams from the National...
Mar 17 2021 // A Georgia city, a textile manufacturer and others are being sued by a former Summerville, Georgia, city council member over a water crisis that forced Summerville to distribute bottled water for weeks and still could cost...