All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 22 2015 // Indemnity benefits per claim with more than seven days of lost time in Georgia were among the highest of the 17 study states and the main contributor to the higher total costs per claim in the state, according to a recent...
Jun 16 2015 // Georgia will spend $10 million to add officers to the state law-enforcement division focused on watching and inspecting commercial trucks, Gov. Deal announced June 11 along a stretch of interstate where tractor-trailers...
Jun 11 2015 // Georgia’s new chief privacy officer appointed earlier this month said she will focus on training school districts about the importance of both collecting and protecting data on Georgia students.The position was...
Jun 8 2015 // State Farm says Georgia residents file the most claims for lightning strikes in the country. The insurer’s officials told WSB-TV that it paid more than $16 million for lightning-related claims in 2014. The owner of...
May 22 2015 // ConAgra Foods agreed to pay $11.2 million, a sum that includes the highest criminal fine ever in a U.S. food safety case, to settle a federal charge that the company shipped Peter Pan peanut butter tainted with salmonella...
May 21 2015 // The Georgia State Patrol says officers have written about 270 tickets under a law that makes it illegal to block faster drivers in the left-hand lane.The state’s so-called “slow poke” law took effect in...
May 8 2015 // Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into law two bills regulating the high-tech ridesharing industry in Georgia. Surrounded by young Uber drivers in black T-shirts and Lyft drivers wearing pink on Wednesday, Deal signed into law...
May 4 2015 // The Georgia Supreme Court denied an insured’s bad faith claim against its insurer for its refusal to pay a settlement because the insured settled on the amount without the consent of the insurer that was required by...
May 1 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and the issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. and Georgia...
May 1 2015 // A Georgia-based sperm bank said in a court filing this week that a lawsuit accusing it of misrepresenting the medical and social history of a sperm donor is baseless.Xytex Corp. responded to the lawsuit filed in Fulton...
Apr 30 2015 // Georgia education officials say they’re working with the state health department to make sure ice cream products that were recently recalled aren’t being served in schools. Department of Education spokesman...
Apr 29 2015 // Federal prosecutors say a central Georgia hospital system has agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement to resolve allegations of fraudulent Medicare billing.Authorities say the Medical Center of Central Georgia has...
Apr 27 2015 // Popular ride-hailing firms like Uber and Lyft are fighting lawsuits in Atlanta and other cities from cab drivers, taxi and limousine companies claiming the techno upstarts are siphoning off passengers and profits by...
Apr 22 2015 // The former mayor of Milledgeville has turned himself in to face a dozen charges of insurance fraud.The Macon Telegraph reported that 52-year-old Richard Bentley was booked at Baldwin County Jail on Monday. Officers said...
Apr 20 2015 // He was good on paper: Eloquent, mature, healthy and smart to boot.That’s why Angela Collins and Margaret Elizabeth Hanson say they chose Donor 9623 to be the biological father of their child. Then last June, almost...
Apr 20 2015 // The Georgia Supreme Court denied an insured’s bad faith claim against its insurer for its refusal to pay a settlement because the insured settled on the amount without the consent of the insurer that was required by...
Apr 20 2015 // An emotional Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation April 16 that immediately legalizes the use of medical marijuana in Georgia to treat eight serious medical conditions.Sponsored by state Rep. Allen Peake, a Republican from...
Apr 6 2015 // The Georgia Senate has expanded the requirements ridesharing companies must meet to operate in the state.The Senate voted last Thursday to add a requirement for drivers of companies such as Uber to display certificates of...
Apr 6 2015 // Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV was ordered to pay $150 million to the family of a 4-year-old boy who burned to death in a crash after a jury found the carmaker recklessly designed the gas tank for the 1999 Jeep Grand...
Mar 31 2015 // Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say Lockheed Martin Corp. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations it overbilled the government for fuel it used while manufacturing planes for the U.S. Air Force. Prosecutors say...