All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 2 2024 // Georgia authorities last week announced the arrest of a contractor charged with underreporting payroll and defrauding Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. of more than $9 million in premiums.Jose Martinez, 56, of Grayson, was...
Dec 29 2023 // Outside of the turbulent state of Florida, the Southeastern U.S. saw its share of insurance issues, from carriers pulling out of Georgia to roof-matching requirements in Kentucky to liquor liability problems in South...
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Dec 26 2023 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency, calling itself one of the largest independent agencies with partnerships around the country, has acquired another Georgia company. Shan Akin Akin Insurance Agency, with offices in Vienna and...
Dec 26 2023 // Georgia authorities were searching for an Atlanta-area landscaper who has been charged with falsely claiming that one of his commercial-grade lawnmowers had been stolen, then collecting $19,000 from his insurance...
Dec 18 2023 // A chemical leak that killed six workers at a Georgia poultry plant in 2021 resulted from a poorly designed freezer that spilled deadly liquid nitrogen as well as a failure by the plant`s owner to install safety equipment...
Dec 15 2023 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency has continued its expansion plans with the acquisition of M D Iverson Group, an Atlanta-area agency and brokerage that focuses on commercial products and high-net-worth individuals. M D Iverson...
Dec 13 2023 // A former Georgia insurance agent was missing Wednesday after he was charged with diverting a premium payment to his own bank account.Michael Durrell Preston Jr., 42, of Woodstock and Canton, was charged with insurance...
Dec 8 2023 // GEICO Indemnity Co. has agreed and a federal court in Georgia has given approval to a preliminary settlement of $5.1 million in a class-action lawsuit in which plaintiffs said the insurer had shorted them on ad valorem...
Nov 27 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — A historic theater is fighting a plan for Georgia`s second- largest city to build a new courthouse, saying the new tower could harm the theater`s building and programming.The Springer Opera House...
Nov 20 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
Nov 17 2023 // A house fire in northeast Georgia that killed three people last week was found to be accidental in nature, linked to a clothes dryer that was running overnight. And a blaze that burned a 180-year-old, historic home in...
Nov 9 2023 // Higginbotham announced the expansion of its multi-year investment in collegiate athletics to include ten universities in the southern region of the United States through its continued sponsorship agreement with LEARFIELD,...
Nov 8 2023 // A stuntman in “Black Panther” and “Avengers” movies was remembered by loved ones after he and three of his children were killed in a car crash last week in Georgia. Atlanta TV station WSB, the New...
Nov 7 2023 // Georgia law enforcement leaders are urging state lawmakers to grant injured officers their full salaries while they recover, a move that could significantly alter the nature of workers’ compensation insurance.News...
Nov 6 2023 // Police in South Fulton, Georgia, have charged the president and treasurer of a large condominium association with stealing more than $1.5 million in insurance payouts after two fires in 2020 destroyed a building.Multiple...
Nov 6 2023 // World Insurance Associates, Oakwood Insurance AgencyWorld Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Oakwood Insurance Agency LLC, also doing business as Insure Big Rig, of Califon, New Jersey. Oakwood has been...
Nov 3 2023 // Federal safety regulators have brought the hammer down on a Louisiana contractor, deciding that the company failed to use correct safety equipment that would have prevented a fatal fall at an electric car plant...
Oct 23 2023 // ATLANTA (AP) — A medical sterilization company has agreed to settle nearly 80 lawsuits alleging people were exposed to a cancer-causing chemical, ethylene oxide, emitted from its plant outside of Atlanta.Details of...
Oct 17 2023 // A federal judge has trimmed nine months off former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck’s prison sentence for embezzlement, not because of his good behavior in jail, but because he has no prior criminal...