All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 22 2009 // A Georgia Republican is pushing a measure that would require employers to perform background checks on staffers who work inside other people’s homes.The measure sponsored by state Rep. Allen Peake of Macon would also...
Sep 21 2009 // Fairfax/Odyssey ReFairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. will sell $1 billion in stock to fund the purchase of the shares of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. that it does not already own. Fairfax reduced its stake in the reinsurer a few...
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales.Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Sep 21 2009 // AmWINS/Managing AgencyCharlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is a...
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales.Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Sep 16 2009 // Georgia’s top court is set to decide the fate of a 2005 law that limits pain and suffering damages awarded in medical malpractice cases.The Georgia Supreme Court heard a case this week weighing the merits of a...
Sep 8 2009 // Pennsylvania-based property/casualty insurer Donegal Mutual has agreed to an affiliation that brings Southern Mutual Insurance Co. into Donegal’s insurance pool and gives the Georgia insurer additional products to...
Sep 7 2009 // CNA Financial Corp. named Bob Lindemann as president and chief operating officer of CNA’s Commercial Lines operations.In this role, Lindemann will be responsible for CNA’s $3.5 billion commercial...
Sep 7 2009 // Miami-based First Commercial Insurance Co. and its subsidiary have been declared insolvent and ordered liquidated about six weeks after being placed under state control.All policies written by FCIC and its subsidiary,...
Aug 26 2009 // Miami-based First Commercial Insurance Co. and its subsidiary have been declared insolvent and ordered liquidated about six weeks after being placed under state control.All policies written by FCIC and its subsidiary,...