All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2009 // Braemar Shipping Services has launched a new subsidiary called Braemar Marine, which will provide marine surveying and adjusting services to the global maritime, transportation risk and insurance markets. Braemar Marine...
Aug 13 2009 // Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected E. Scott Hansard to serve as president. Hansard is the owner of Hansard Insurance Agency, located in Cumming, Georgia. Others elected as...
Aug 12 2009 // Foremost Insurance Group has made its new DistinctChoice auto insurance program available in Georgia. The program features increased limits and deductible options, broad eligibility and popular discounts including a...
Aug 12 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has ordered two organizations allegedly acting as unlicensed insurers to stop selling insurance-like products.The two groups are The Butler Aid Society and God First...
Aug 5 2009 // Insurance industry merger consultant Merger & Acquisition Services, Inc. (M&A) reports that it has been awarded a $1.76 million judgment against a former officer of the company who kept M&A customer...
Aug 4 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine have renewed a partnership agreement to ensure continuity of operations in the event of a catastrophe that causes significant...
Jul 20 2009 // Will Weston, vice president and principal of Blanchard & Calhoun Insurance Agency in Augusta, was elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) during the association’s recent...
Jul 10 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has returned $120,000 that was funneled into his gubernatorial campaign by two insurance firms.The Republican detailed the returns in a campaign filing submitted this week. The...
Jul 2 2009 // A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The complaint by 58-year-old Larry Reece says a pallet of plywood fell on him from a...
Jul 1 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said insurance agents in several states have been called by scammers posing as insurance regulators in order to collect personal data that would make I.D. theft...
Jun 30 2009 // Republican State Senator and businessman Ralph Hudgens, who is Senate chairman of the Insurance and Labor Committee, is running to be Georgia’s next insurance commissioner.Hudgens, of Hull, was first elected to the...
Jun 2 2009 // An insured who voluntarily agrees to pay a settlement that is not dictated by a jury verdict cannot sue its insurance company for bad faith failure to defend, even if the settlement is within the policy limits, the Georgia...
May 21 2009 // Brenda Wallace joined Atlanta, Ga.-based Risk Innovations’ workers’ compensation division. Wallace has more than 25 years insurance experience including more than 20 years working with a national insurance...
May 20 2009 // Georgia firefighters say they are feeling the negative effects of the current economic crisis and lack some key equipment, according to a national survey of firefighters.The survey identified the top three challenges...
May 20 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘B++’ (Good) from ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings to “bbb+” from “a-” of Georgia Farm Bureau Group...
May 18 2009 // The small community of Mennonites that multiplied along a web of dirt roads in rural southeast Georgia has steadily grown the same way it does just about everything: Quietly.The community’s 100 or so members have...
May 12 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate John Oxendine, who blasted a news report alleging he accepted what appear to be illegal campaign contributions from an insurance executive, said he has...
May 11 2009 // The small community of Mennonites that multiplied along a web of dirt roads in rural southeast Georgia has steadily grown the same way it does just about everything: Quietly.The community’s 100 or so members have...
May 5 2009 // Peachtree City Mayor Harold Logsdon wants to be Georgia insurance commissioner.According to his Web site, Logsdon made his announcement over the weekend at the Fayette County Republican breakfast in Fayetteville. “I...
Apr 29 2009 // Dallas-based Gainsco announced that beginning in May it will be offering high-quality, minimum-limits auto insurance in the state of Georgia.MGA Insurance Company Inc., which markets its policies and services using the...