All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2009 // The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that injured motorists are not entitled to maximize their coverage by combining commercial auto insurance policies on several vehicles to cover one accident, a tactic known as...
Oct 30 2009 // Many Cobb County homeowners say they’d like the county to buy their flood-damaged homes, but a county official says it’s impossible to accommodate all of them.About 300 people gathered at a recreation center...
Oct 30 2009 // Georgia officials say they have arrested the ringleader in a fraud ring operating in Savannah, that collected nearly $95,000 from six insurance companies by staging accidents and filing bogus claims.Insurance Commissioner...
Oct 30 2009 // Pennsylvania-based Donegal Mutual Insurance Co. and Georgia-based Southern Mutual Insurance Co. have finalize an affiliation they announced in early September.The deal brings Southern Mutual into Donegal’s insurance...
Oct 29 2009 // A workers’ compensation insurer for 3,000 public entities, hospitals, private companies and associations in Georgia has been declared insolvent and will be liquidated.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas...
Oct 28 2009 // Attorney Maria Sheffield has become the latest candidate to enter the Republican primary to be the next insurance commissioner in Georgia. She is one of several candidates hoping to succeed current Insurance Commissioner...
Oct 26 2009 // A Mableton man whose home was heavily damaged by floods last month has won $250,000 playing the Georgia lottery. Michael Sussman said he plans to buy a new home for his family with his winnings. The 38-year-old and his...
Oct 21 2009 // Workers in eight Georgia counties have until Monday to file initial claims for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance to compensate for loss of income directly resulting from severe storms and flooding last month. DUA is...
Oct 20 2009 // The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that injured motorists are not entitled to maximize their insurance coverage by combining commercial auto insurance policies on several vehicles to cover one accident, a tactic known as...
Oct 14 2009 // A Georgia state law adopted in 2007 that required driver’s education for all 16-year-olds also created a way to help pay for it, but only 20 percent of funds collected under the program have been appropriated for its...
Oct 7 2009 // Savannah-based insurance broker Seacrest Partners, Inc. has expanded its staff with the addition of its tenth new associate in 2009. Jennifer A. O’Sako has joined Seacrest Partners as an account executive in the...
Oct 6 2009 // The Chubb Group has extended its post-catastrophe inspection service to homeowners insurance customers who own a secondary or seasonal home in Georgia and South Carolina and who may not be able to visit their property...
Oct 5 2009 // Attorney Maria Sheffield has become the latest candidate to enter the Republican primary to be the next insurance commissioner in Georgia.Sheffield is an attorney with Burr, Forman LLP, where she handles regulatory and...
Oct 2 2009 // The Nationwide Insurance Foundation said it will donate $50,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which helps to provide shelter, food and other assistance to victims of disasters like the Georgia floods. The...
Oct 1 2009 // The American Red Cross has released preliminary disaster assessment information from flooding that swamped parts of Georgia.The organization said an estimated 2,803 Georgia homes have been affected by the flooding. Of...
Sep 28 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has raised the estimated cost of damage caused by heavy flooding in parts of north Georgia to $500 million. The new figure is twice as much as last Tuesday’s initial...
Sep 24 2009 // As floodwaters around Atlanta began to recede, residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged apartments.“I’m toast,” Penny Freeman, who moved into a first-floor...
Sep 24 2009 // David Bush had a sweeping view of the Chattahoochee River from his backyard in metropolitan Atlanta. When he returned to his house, the surging river was in his front yard, too.But he was fretting for another reason as he...
Sep 23 2009 // Flooding across north Georgia over the past few days has caused an estimated $250 million in losses, as much as 80 percent of that likely uninsured, according to state Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine.Oxendine said...
Sep 22 2009 // After viewing storm damage in Douglas and Paulding counties from the air, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in 17 counties affected by heavy rain and severe weather that...