All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2018 // A Georgia insurance agent from Pierce County has been arrested and charged with 28 counts of insurance fraud, according to a statement from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.Dana Larson Bowen, 52, of Blackshear,...
Mar 1 2018 // More than $8 million was secured for thousands of individuals, families, and businesses who filed complaints against insurance companies in 2017 through help from the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s Office,...
Feb 28 2018 // Lying about your weight on an online dating site? Checking out who won the Falcons game from your work computer? Using your computer hacking knowledge as an “ethical hacker?” Those actions may become illegal if...
Feb 23 2018 // Investigators ruled arson was to blame for a fire that started in a Georgia home and rapidly spread throughout a subdivision, destroying five houses and damaging at least 14 others before firefighters could extinguish all...
Feb 21 2018 // Officials in Savannah, Ga., are taking extra precautions to protect employees’ email accounts and government computer servers as Savannah City Hall recovers from a malware virus attack. Local officials said in a news...
Feb 16 2018 // A Georgia insurance agent from Pierce County has been arrested and charged with 28 counts of insurance fraud, according to a statement from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.Dana Larson Bowen, 52, of Blackshear,...
Feb 14 2018 // Georgia transportation officials are exploring the idea of a separate highway for trucks only.It would be the first highway of its kind in the United States, said John Hibbard, the Georgia Department of...
Feb 12 2018 // Broken equipment inside a steel conveyor belt sparked the first explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth on a mild winter night 10 years ago.The initial blast rocked the building, jolting more dust into...
Feb 6 2018 // Worley Claims Services, LLC, a provider of claims services in North America, has acquired Audit Services Incorporated (ASI), a claim estimate writing and review supplier for the property and auto insurance markets based in...
Feb 5 2018 // A new report shows that 2017 was the warmest year on record for Georgia.The annual average statewide temperature for 2017 was tied with 2016 for the warmest on record, with 65.8 degrees (18.8 Celsius) as the average mean...
Feb 2 2018 // A silo used to store pecan hulls exploded Wednesday in rural south Georgia, shattering windows in businesses blocks away.Workers reported buildings shook just before 1 p.m. when the silo exploded outside the offices of...
Feb 1 2018 // Authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a school bus she was riding in overturned in Georgia.Five other people were injured in the crash Monday afternoon. Warner Robins Assistant Police Chief John Wagner tells...
Jan 30 2018 // A new report shows that 2017 was the warmest year on record for Georgia.The annual average statewide temperature for 2017 was tied with 2016 for the warmest on record with 65.8 degrees (18.8 Celsius) as the average mean...
Jan 29 2018 // The mother of a stuntman who fell to his death on the set of “The Walking Dead” in Georgia has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets...
Jan 24 2018 // InsuranceHub, a technology-driven insurance agency with more than 15,000 clients nationwide, has acquired Insley Insurance of Dacula, Ga.The acquisition became official in January 2018. Insley Insurance was founded by...
Jan 23 2018 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has named Mike Breedlove executive vice president of Property & Casualty Operations. Breedlove will be responsible for leading the company’s property &...
Jan 19 2018 // To support growth within the Georgia market, workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has announced the promotion of Ben Cavallaro to the position of production underwriter.A native of Portland, Maine, and...
Jan 19 2018 // Could a traffic agency identify a potentially dangerous road intersection without first witnessing a collision?Three Kennesaw State University researchers and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) are attempting...
Jan 18 2018 // JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH), a specialty insurance business, has agreed to acquire privately-held Genesee General, a managing general agency, program administrator and wholesale insurance broker based in Alpharetta, Ga. The...
Jan 10 2018 // A crash involving more than 30 cars closed the northbound lanes of an interstate in north Georgia as light freezing rain fell across wide swaths of Georgia and Alabama on Monday.No serious injuries were reported in the...