All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2014 // Georgia homebuilder Blankenship Homes lost its source of loans for new construction after four local community banks failed since 2009.“The economy just shut down,” said owner Johnny Blankenship, 54, a builder...
Mar 18 2014 // Six days after General Motors Co. recalled almost 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s for a defect that could cause surprise engine shutdowns, lawyer Lance Cooper, a solo practitioner in Georgia, sent government...
Feb 28 2014 // The Supreme Court ruled this week that a Georgia police officer could not be sued in Nevada over the seizure of money from two travelers at an Atlanta airport.In a unanimous decision, the justices said a lawsuit against...
Feb 27 2014 // Chevy Chase, Md.-based auto insurance giant GEICO announced Lona Montgomery has been named assistant vice president of centralized services in the company’s Macon, Ga., regional office. Montgomery previously served...
Feb 27 2014 // State transportation officials say an initiative to recover money to pay for damage to state property in traffic accidents has netted the agency more than $1 million. GDOT officials say annual damages to state property —...
Feb 20 2014 // The Georgia House recently passed legislation allowing insurance companies to conduct all policyholder transactions over the internet instead of by mail as long as the consumer consents. The bill also allows policy...
Feb 20 2014 // The latest winter storm to pound Georgia with ice and snow caused an estimated $25 million in damage. State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said that’s the dollar amount of claims filed with property/casualty...
Feb 6 2014 // Retail insurance agency EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center ) said it has added Don Atkinson to its risk management consulting practice in its Southeast region, The McCart Group, in Duluth, Georgia.Atkinson brings 29...
Feb 5 2014 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said Georgians have already filed more than an estimated $10 million in claims related to last week’s snow storm. Hudgens said in a statement that insured losses include...
Feb 5 2014 // Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly.Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use...
Jan 16 2014 // State officials say Georgians filed claims for an estimated $75 million in insured losses after temperatures in the region dropped well below freezing. Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said in a statement that...
Jan 9 2014 // EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant based in San Francisco, said it has acquired The McCart Group of Duluth, Georgia.The McCart Group...
Dec 27 2013 // New food safety rules proposed by the federal government could prove cumbersome and costly for Georgia farmers, the state’s agriculture commissioner said.Gary Black, a Republican, was among many who asked the U.S....
Dec 20 2013 // The Georgia Department of Insurance has approved United Property & Casualty Insurance Co. (UPC) to write property/casualty insurance in the state as an admitted carrier. This brings the total number of states in the...
Dec 5 2013 // Northwest Georgia insurance agent Bruce Thompson has been elected to represent District 14 in the Georgia state Senate.Thompson won about 68 percent of votes in Tuesday’s general election runoff over Cartersville...
Dec 2 2013 // An insurance company is suing the City of Macon, claiming that a corporate jet crashed because the city improperly built the runway it landed on. The Telegraph of Macon reported that Old Republic Insurance Co. is suing the...
Nov 18 2013 // A jury in Columbus, Georgia has awarded $6.7 million in a 10-year legal battle involving an Alabama man who said his intestine was punctured during a hernia operation. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported that the jury...
Nov 8 2013 // Investigators have arrested a man who they say was involved in an “elaborate theft ring” operating in northeast Florida and south Georgia.The Florida Times-Union reported that investigators tracked two stolen...
Nov 6 2013 // Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens criticized the rocky rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a recent interview with a local TV news station. Commissioner Hudgens, a...
Nov 5 2013 // AutoTown Insurance, an independent agency based in Norcross, Georgia, announced its acquisition of Fling Insurance Agency in Lagrange, Georgia. AutoTown said the acquisition highlights the firm’s expansion plans...