All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2018 // Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has called a special session of the state legislature to grapple with the recovery costs from Hurricane Michael.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the governor’s office expects the...
Oct 23 2018 // The Georgia Department of Insurance has estimated insured property losses from Hurricane Michael will reach $250 million, according to a statement Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.In figures released Oct. 18,...
Oct 22 2018 // Like many diligent public servants, Georgia state Representative Ed Setzler enjoys crowing about a nice, tidy highway project. In a Sept. 8 Facebook video, the Republican appeared to be doing just that from behind the...
Oct 15 2018 // Power outages caused by Hurricane Michael are likely to linger into early this week for some of the hardest hit communities in southwest Georgia.More than 188,000 homes and businesses still didn’t have power Friday....
Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael’s assault on the Florida Panhandle left nothing more than empty foundations and heaps of rubble in some parts of the small towns it crashed into with near-record force.Communications outages and...
Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland, headed northeast on Thursday, weakened but still set to soak Georgia and the Carolinas after devastating the Florida Panhandle.A man was...
Oct 10 2018 // Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a State of Emergency Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Michael, which was expected to slam Florida as a Category 4 storm then travel northeast towards Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday...
Oct 2 2018 // Kin Insurance, an insurtech startup offering insurance for homeowners, has expanded into Georgia. Kin uses big data analysis to help simplify the process of obtaining homeowners insurance.Kin aggregates data from public...
Sep 26 2018 // A law firm says a Georgia jury has awarded $31 million to a boy for a botched circumcision he received as a newborn.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the award was handed down Friday in northern Georgia’s...
Sep 25 2018 // Houston International Insurance Group (HIIG) has agreed to purchase the remaining shares it did not own of Creative Risk Underwriters (CRU), a managing general underwriting agency (MGU) based in Marietta, Ga., specializing...
Sep 11 2018 // A Habersham County, Ga., woman has been charged with first-degree arson for allegedly setting fire to her home and one count of insurance fraud for submitting a fraudulent insurance claim, according to a statement from...
Aug 28 2018 // Trinity Underwriting Managers (TUMI), a division of Worldwide Facilities, has added Haley Kirchen as underwriter. She will be based in the Savannah, Ga., office. Kirchen has more than 15 years of experience to her new...
Aug 22 2018 // Hospital staff and physicians who are willing to explain, apologize for and resolve adverse medical events significantly reduce legal defense and liability costs, according to a study led by Dr. Florence R. LeCraw, an...
Aug 21 2018 // An Atlanta-area property company is suing Grammy-winning R&B artist R. Kelly for $203,400 over “extensive damage” to two homes he rented. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports SB Property Management...
Aug 21 2018 // An explosion and fire destroyed a coffee shop Friday in a rural south Georgia city, seriously injuring three people and prompting a warning from city officials for residents to avoid the downtown area.The blast rocked tiny...
Aug 8 2018 // A Georgia agency says more than 900 drivers were cited for violating the state’s new law prohibiting handling cellphones behind the wheel during its first month. Georgia on July 1 joined more than a dozen states that...
Aug 6 2018 // Georgia Department of Insurance responded to 5,859 consumer complaints and inquiries, returning more than $3.7 million in insurance claim payouts to many of these policyholders, in the first six months of 2018, according...
Aug 2 2018 // Metro Atlanta-based InsuranceHub has promoted industry veteran Ed Hemmer to the role of associate vice president in charge of the tech-driven insurance agency’s commercial transportation division.InsuranceHub...
Aug 2 2018 // One moment she was having a sneezing fit and the next, her SUV had rear-ended a minivan.That’s what a 43-year Mississippi woman told officers in Athens, Georgia, after the sneeze-induced crash. Citing an...
Jul 31 2018 // Emergency officials say a possible tornado has left a trail of damage on the Georgia coast.No injuries were reported after a funnel cloud was spotted Friday afternoon on Whitemarsh Island, east of Savannah. The Chatham...