All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2016 // Florida’s Citizens Launches Campaign to Combat Abuse ClaimsCitizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a multi-faceted education campaign in an attempt to combat what it has called a disturbing increase of fraud...
Mar 4 2016 // President Barack Obama has declared that a major disaster exists in 33 Georgia counties following recent severe storms and flooding that affected the state.The White House announced Feb. 26 that federal aid will be...
Mar 1 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that in 2015 his office mediated thousands of claims disputes between Georgians and insurance companies, resulting in more than $7 million in claim settlements...
Feb 26 2016 // A major storm system hit several Southeast states this week, bringing high winds and tornadoes to multiple regions and killing at least one person in Mississippi. Injuries and damage were also reported in Florida from an...
Feb 25 2016 // The owner of a Georgia-based insurance firm is requiring all of his employees to get permits to carry concealed weapons and providing each of them with a handgun.Lance Toland of Lance Toland Associates said Tuesday that...
Feb 19 2016 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), which operates under the direction of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, announced the arrest of William David Rodeffer III of Folkston, Ga. Rodeffer allegedly accepted...
Feb 4 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced the arrests of six Colquitt County residents and a Clayton County woman involved in a staged insurance fraud ring. A joint investigation by Hudgens’ Insurance...
Feb 2 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens and the Roswell Police Department announced the arrest of a Fulton County woman on multiple counts of insurance fraud and other charges.Rommys Alemania Beltran, 45, of Roswell,...
Jan 14 2016 // IFG Companies has announced that Mesale Solomon has joined as its senior vice president and chief people officer. Solomon comes to IFG with more than 15 years of experience leading human resource professionals and helping...
Jan 12 2016 // Georgia farmers have endured a winter that wouldn’t start and rains that wouldn’t quit.The state’s pecan, peach and blueberry crops have been threatened by too many warm days and too much water, growers...
Jan 11 2016 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, announces the hiring of Steven Hand. Hand joins TUMI as bokerage director and will be responsible for managing the company’s...
Dec 31 2015 // More rain moved into Georgia on Wednesday as forecasters warned that another 1 to 2 inches was expected to fall across much of the area by week’s end, adding to the deluge that already saturated the state in recent...
Dec 30 2015 // Ridesharing, drones and medical marijuana garnered a lot of attention from the insurance industry in 2015, and readers in the Southeast were no exception. Among the most popular stories in the Southeast included...
Dec 30 2015 // It was another year of lawsuits and settlements for the insurance industry to pay and learn from. In 2015, some of the top headline makers in the Southeast included a huge uninsured motorist payout for GEICO, a $36 million...
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Managed Healthcare Solutions, Inc. in Atlanta. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2000, Managed HealthCare Solutions (MHS) provides employee benefit...
Dec 21 2015 // Gillis, Ellis & Baker Employees of Gillis, Ellis & Baker Insurance (GEB) spent a recent weekend fixing up the exterior of the Gentilly home of Eleonor Sheppard. The GEB team repaired siding, painted the...
Dec 17 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ announced the arrest of insurance agent Macie Anedra Yawn, 27, of Cochran, Ga. Yawn owned and operated Charles Robinson Insurance Agency in Eastman and is accused of...
Dec 11 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
Nov 17 2015 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to B (Fair) from B+ (Good) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “bb+” from “bbb-” of Century Casualty Co. based in Alpharetta, Ga. The...