All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2017 // Jim Beck, a businessman, entrepreneur, and a former deputy insurance commissioner, has announced his candidacy for Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner.Beck, a Republican, has more than 30 years of...
Aug 29 2017 // Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAG) announced that John Barbour, currently vice president of Governmental Affairs, will serve as its new chief executive officer. Barbour will lead the association beginning Sept....
Aug 25 2017 // An insurance agent in Floyd County, Ga., has been arrested on fraud charges related to the misappropriation of insurance premiums, according to the Georgia Department of Insurance.Marshall Irwin, 56, owner and operator of...
Aug 25 2017 // A Georgia truck driver has been sentenced to prison in a 2015 highway collision that killed five people after the trucker fell asleep at the wheel.A State Court judge in Savannah sentenced 61-year-old David Jerald Gibbons...
Aug 21 2017 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens will not seek re-election for a third term as Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, according to a statement from the Georgia Department of Insurance.In a...
Aug 18 2017 // A deadly February 2017 industrial gas leak at a sperm bank in Augusta, Ga. was caused by the over-pressurization of a bulk storage tank, according to findings from an investigation by state inspectors released Thursday by...
Aug 16 2017 // Georgia District 9 State Senator and Vice President of Hood Insurance Agency in Lawrenceville, Ga., P.K. Martin was elected by members of the Professional Insurance Agents Southern Alliance to serve as chairman at their...
Aug 10 2017 // A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information regarding separate fires that damaged two vacant homes last week in Walker County, Georgia, according to a statement from Georgia’s Deputy Insurance and...
Aug 9 2017 // Jim Beck, a businessman, entrepreneur, and a former deputy insurance commissioner, has announced his candidacy for Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner.Beck, a Republican, has more than 30 years of...
Aug 8 2017 // A confirmed tornado touched down in central Georgia, uprooting trees and ripping a roof off a home. National Weather Service meteorologist Sid King tells WMAZ-TV that an EF-1 tornado hit south Macon Friday night with winds...
Aug 7 2017 // A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury’s decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said. The jury in Savannah...
Aug 3 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC, has completed the acquisition of the assets and operations of N-Surance Outlets (NSO), a wholesale insurance brokerage and binding authority operation headquartered in Roswell, Ga. The acquired...
Aug 3 2017 // Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier has appointed Michael Yaworsky as the new chief of staff for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR), replacing former Chief of Staff Belinda Miller, who retired at...
Aug 2 2017 // Musicians are offering a reward for information about a burglary at a popular music venue in Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Athens-Clarke County police spokesman Sgt. Jim Schultz says the 40 Watt Club in...
Jul 25 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC, announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire N-Surance Outlets (NSO), a wholesale insurance brokerage and binding authority operation headquartered in Roswell, Ga.NSO will become...
Jul 24 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “bbb-” of Georgia Farm Bureau...
Jul 20 2017 // A stuntman fatally injured during production of “The Walking Dead” fell head-first onto concrete about 22 feet (7 meters) below after appearing to try to grab a railing to stop his fall, an assistant director...
Jul 20 2017 // A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury’s decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said.The jury in Savannah...
Jul 18 2017 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens will not seek re-election for a third term as Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, according to a statement from the Georgia Department of Insurance.In a...
Jul 18 2017 // Police in five Southeastern states are launching a weeklong program to reduce summertime wrecks and traffic deaths.“Operation Southern Shield” started Monday in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and...