All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ office issued a warrant last week for three Treutlen County residents on charges related to insurance fraud.Theresa Dyer, 59, was charged with one count of insurance...
Aug 19 2015 // Two Florida laws, enacted to fight prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed the first year the laws were in place, a new study...
Aug 12 2015 // Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Dwight L. Taylor, to serve as president of the nation’s sixth largest affiliate at their annual meeting held in Savannah, Ga.Taylor is...
Aug 10 2015 // Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a...
Aug 7 2015 // INSUREtrust in Atlanta, Ga., has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team.Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs’ has 15 years of insurance...
Aug 5 2015 // Regions Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Regions Insurance Group, Inc. and an affiliate of Regions Bank, has acquired The A.I. Group, Inc., with offices in Greater Atlanta and Athens, Georgia.The A.I. Group provides...
Jul 31 2015 // Betsy K. Olson was appointed chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia after a unanimous vote of its Board of Directors on July 29, 2015. Olson will take the reins on September 1.“Betsy...
Jul 20 2015 // Pictured left to right: Patricia Berry, Chris Holmes, Paul HamiltonAtlanta, GA, July 20, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has added three brokers with...
Jul 20 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has made a series of senior appointments to its business.Hiram Marrero has been appointed national partner of Willis’s South Region. He will be responsible...
Jul 20 2015 // GEICO has continued the expansion of its new auto insurance product for drivers of transportation network companies (TNC) with the addition of Georgia. GEICO offers ridesharing coverage through GEICO Commercial for less...
Jul 17 2015 // Augusta, Ga., commissioners are proposing a settlement with firefighters who have sued the city saying they’re owed overtime pay. The Augusta Chronicle reports commissioners voted to offer $58,455 to the group of...
Jul 15 2015 // The City of Augusta, Ga., has settled a whistleblower suit against a former deputy coroner who said he was retaliated against for reporting that the coroner was stealing money and property from dead people. The Augusta...
Jul 14 2015 // Companies looking to form captives in Georgia can now do so with more favorable conditions since the passage of several business-friendly amendments to the Georgia captive insurance law, which became effective July 1.The...
Jul 14 2015 // Drone enthusiasts are calling a ban on the unmanned vehicles within five miles of Georgia’s Capitol an overreach of authority by state officials, while agency officials argue the change is necessary and follows...
Jul 6 2015 // Companies looking to form captives in Georgia can now do so with more favorable conditions since the passage of several business-friendly amendments to the Georgia captive insurance law, which became effective July 1.The...
Jul 2 2015 // Andy N. Siegel, president of Siegel Insurance, Inc., a Trusted Choice insurance agency in Atlanta, was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) on June 13, during the...
Jun 25 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that a Bibb County Grand Jury indicted Roswell chiropractor Victor L. Dees for 12 counts of insurance fraud based off an investigation conducted by the Department of...
Jun 23 2015 // Iggie is one of the most important tools in Columbus, Ga.’s fight against arson, and he’s only two years old.Iggie is a yellow lab trained to detect fire accelerants such as gasoline and other materials favored...
Jun 23 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has made a series of senior appointments to its southeast business operations.Hiram Marrero has been appointed national partner of Willis’s South Region. He...
Jun 22 2015 // GEICO has continued the expansion of its new auto insurance product for drivers of transportation network companies (TNC) with the addition of Georgia.GEICO offers ridesharing coverage through GEICO Commercial at a price...