All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 26 2023 // A Bermuda appeals court on Friday largely dismissed Credit Suisse’s appeal in an ongoing case involving the Swiss bank’s local life insurance arm and Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina...
Jun 22 2023 // The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents.A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK Walker Autoworks in...
Jun 20 2023 // What happens when an insurance carrier, its underwriter, a broker and the insured all forget to make sure a sublimit endorsement on wind-driven rain losses is included in a multimillion dollar property policy?In the case...
Jun 19 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Florida to Georgia late last week.The National Weather Service...
Jun 16 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Georgia.The National Weather Service issued numerous tornado...
Jun 11 2023 // Georgia cities and counties, along with trucking and auto insurance companies, are preparing for the impact of a new law that raises the weight limit of tractor-trailers hauling agricultural and timber products in the...
Jun 5 2023 // A former Aflac Insurance employee, described as the leader of a fraud ring in Georgia, has been charged in connection with submitting dozens of false claims to the supplemental insurance provider. Amber Miles, 32, filed 52...
Jun 5 2023 // G&G Independent Insurance, Robbins Insurance GroupG&G Independent Insurance has acquired Branson, Missouri-based Robbins Insurance Group. G&G has been serving the insurance needs of clients in Missouri and...
Jun 2 2023 // 3M Co., DuPont de Nemours Inc. and other makers of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to resolve a Georgia city’s lawsuit claiming the chemicals polluted its...
Jun 1 2023 // Georgia’s highest court this week upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by five college professors challenging the removal of public colleges and universities from a list of “school...
May 30 2023 // Authorities were searching this week for a Georgia man who falsely claimed a lightning strike caused more than $18,000 in damage to his property, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King said in a bulletin. Salvatore...
May 19 2023 // Workers in Georgia at one of the nation’s largest school bus manufacturers have voted to unionize.Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United Steelworkers union by a vote of 697-435, according...
May 18 2023 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Georgia wood-treating company and its maintenance firm for exposing workers to high levels of arsenic, actions that could result in as much as $180,000 in...
May 15 2023 // A federal courthouse in Georgia was damaged when the driver of a tractor trailer fell asleep and the truck hit the building last week.The crash into the J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse in Dublin happened at about 12:30...
May 11 2023 // Georgia’s insurance commissioner is warning consumers to steer clear of Dirt-Cheap Insurance, an unlicensed outfit that he said has sold fraudulent policies in the state.Three people associated with Dirt-Cheap,...
May 11 2023 // Hylant, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerages, announced it has acquired Aegis Insurance Services Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, a broker and agency specializing in the moving and storage industry. Aegis,...
May 10 2023 // Brown & Brown has acquired Georgia-based Brownlee Agency, one of the oldest insurance agencies on Florida’s east coast. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, the companies said in a news release. Founded in 1974...
May 5 2023 // A federal jury has awarded a Georgia couple $135.5 million for damages to their property by a Tennessee-based solar company and its contractor.The award against Silicon Ranch Corp. and its contractor, IEA Inc., was...
May 4 2023 // Construction crews had placed “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the 124-year-old federal courthouse in Savannah, according to the government agency...
May 1 2023 // The chief of staff for an Atlanta-area sheriff has been charged with insurance fraud after an investigation found that he had lied about the circumstances of an accident.Braxton Tyree Cotton, 41, a major in the Cobb County...