All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2018 // Fraud investigators with the Georgia Department of Insurance have arrested a Columbus, Ga., roofing contractor and issued warrants on his employer for intentionally vandalizing the roofs of two homes in Muscogee County,...
Jul 25 2018 // A federal appeals court in Atlanta last week reaffirmed its decision that workers aren’t protected against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, though two of the 11 judges strongly disagreed.Gerald...
Jul 25 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has made three additions to its Construction Services Group headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga.Danielle Maxey has joined as account executive. In...
Jul 24 2018 // Three men were arrested last week for their participation in a staged accident ring operating in South Georgia, according to a statement from the Georgia Department of Insurance.Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said...
Jul 18 2018 // The health insurer Anthem Inc. was sued by doctors in Georgia for declining to pay for some emergency-room care, escalating a long-running battle over how far insurance plans can go to push patients to seek lower-cost...
Jul 17 2018 // Georgia joins Alabama and three other states in a week-long speed enforcement operation beginning Monday.“Operation Southern Shield” will run through Sunday, July 22. Law enforcement in Georgia and Alabama will...
Jul 9 2018 // Investigators say improperly discarded fireworks sparked a fire that burned down three Dawson County, Georgia homes. State fire marshal spokesman Glenn Allen tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the fire, which...
Jul 6 2018 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), an insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has partnered with Midsouth Benefits of Atlanta. The merger was finalized on June 22, 2018 and...
Jul 6 2018 // State troopers made over a hundred stops enforcing Georgia’s new hands-free driving law Sunday, the first day the law was in effect.Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tracey Watson told WSB-TV the Georgia State...
Jun 28 2018 // Andrew Coard was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, on June 8 during IIAG’s 121st annual convention and trade show at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Andrew Coard Coard, a Marietta, Ga....
Jun 21 2018 // AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia has added Alex Furlong, an energy and environmental specialist, to its casualty team. He will be based in Atlanta. Prior to joining AmWINS, Furlong spent several years as a casualty producer at...
Jun 21 2018 // Multiple people have been taken to a hospital after a fire broke out at a Family Dollar in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the fire happened at a Family Dollar in Dekalb County on Monday morning. Four...
Jun 18 2018 // Members of the Professional Insurance Agents Southern Alliance (PIA South) elected Lorie Yauney to serve as chair of the group at its recent annual meeting. The PIA Southern Alliance is the nation’s sixth largest PIA...
Jun 15 2018 // Federal authorities say they’ve reached a settlement with a Georgia manufacturing plant which had been cited for failing to take steps to prevent hazardous air emissions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on...
Jun 14 2018 // Fire officials say a worker is dead after he was pinned beneath falling debris while doing demolition work at a Georgia paper mill. Savannah fire department spokeswoman Jenel Few says a boiler platform collapsed Tuesday...
Jun 12 2018 // So far this year, 111 pedestrians have been killed on state roads – an increase of 16 percent from this time last year, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.In 2017, 260 pedestrians were struck and...
Jun 4 2018 // Georgia is the latest state to ban the use of handheld devices while behind the wheel.Gov. Nathan Deal signed H.B. 673 into law on May 2, making Georgia the 16th state to ban using a cellphone, including texting, shooting...
Jun 4 2018 // A business owner in Gwinnett County, Ga., has been arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud after presenting a fraudulent certificate of insurance coverage, according to a statement from Georgia Insurance...
May 25 2018 // A Georgia jury has awarded an eye-popping $1 billion verdict against a security company after an apartment complex guard was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl.Hope Cheston was outside by some picnic tables with her...
May 24 2018 // A business owner in Gwinnett County, Ga., has been arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud after presenting a fraudulent certificate of insurance coverage, according to a statement from Georgia Insurance...