All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 24 2020 // Newly released documents show a coastal Georgia resort violated labor laws more than 500 times and collectively underpaid employees by more than $46,000.The Brunswick News obtained the documents relating to violations at...
Mar 20 2020 // Insurance departments across the Southeast are notifying industry representatives of updated procedures and expectations in response to the coronavirus outbreak, while also acknowledging the potential for a serious impact...
Mar 18 2020 // Fire investigators are trying to determine what started a blaze that caused extensive damage to a paper mill in northwest Georgia over the weekend.A large building at the International Paper mill in Coosa, about 12 miles...
Mar 6 2020 // Two police officers in Georgia chose to resign last month instead of being terminated following their arrests last month for allegedly selling accident reports to third parties for profit. Nikko McClinton and Ronald...
Mar 5 2020 // Augusta fire officials are raising concerns about a series of fires at abandoned properties.The blazes near Old Savannah Road began late last year and have continued in 2020, The Augusta Chronicle reported. There have been...
Mar 4 2020 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has hired Louis Bridges to its property and casualty practice as a senior risk consultant. Bridges joins IOA’s growing team in Georgia and will be responsible for new business...
Mar 3 2020 // Officials in a central Georgia county say they will pay to test water wells for coal ash contamination.Monroe County Manager Jim Hedges tells WGXA-TV that the county will pay $10,000 to test about 55 private wells across...
Mar 2 2020 // A Georgia Senate bill backed by Republicans aims to take on the tall task of limiting lawsuits in state courts, citing high legal costs faced by businesses.Senate Bill 415, sponsored by state Sen. Steve Gooch of Dahlonega,...
Feb 28 2020 // Federal officials have cited a Georgia-based charcoal manufacturer for exposing employees to safety and health hazards at two Missouri plants.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is recommending fines of...
Feb 28 2020 // Georgia’s governor and agriculture commissioner on Wednesday announced that $347 million in federal disaster relief funding would soon be available to farmers, nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Michael caused...
Feb 27 2020 // Officials for a salvage company suing to halt demolition of an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast appeared to back away Tuesday from claims that sawing the vessel into enormous chunks would cause an...
Feb 26 2020 // Georgia senators voted Monday to let people build homes that could be flooded by dams without raising safety standards for the upstream dam.The state Senate voted 47-6 to pass Senate Bill 319, sending it to the House for...
Feb 24 2020 // A federal judge on Friday ordered attorneys for the U.S. Coast Guard and a maritime salvage company to answer detailed questions about plans to remove an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast by sawing it into eight...
Feb 21 2020 // Georgia accused Russian military intelligence of organizing a “paralyzing” cyber attack last year and called for a reaction by the international community.Russia’s GRU was behind the...
Feb 19 2020 // A maritime salvage company is asking a federal judge to stop the Coast Guard and a rival firm from carrying out their plans to remove a cargo ship that overturned five months ago on the Georgia coast.The multiagency team...
Feb 11 2020 // Georgia could soon loosen safety standards for dams that sit above newly built homes, under a proposal unanimously passed by a state Senate committee.Senate Bill 319 would allow for homes and other inhabitable structures...
Feb 10 2020 // A crash between two school buses in east Georgia sent 22 students to a hospital to be checked Thursday morning, school officials said.Further details on their conditions weren’t immediately known. Social Circle City...
Feb 7 2020 // The Georgia Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that could lead the state to taking a hands-off approach to the regulation of electric scooters.Senate Bill 159 would define electric scooters in state law but do nothing else,...
Feb 7 2020 // A powerful winter storm raked across the Deep South early Thursday, with high winds and flooding causing damage that killed one person, injured several others and littered at least 10 states. Rescue crews repeatedly pulled...
Feb 5 2020 // Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a provider of websites, marketing, comparative rating and management software and services, has acquired Agency Matrix, an insurance technology provider headquartered in...