All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2008 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue asked President Bush for a major disaster declaration to assist residents and local governments in Bibb, Carroll, Crawford, Douglas, Emanuel, Glynn, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Laurens, McIntosh,...
May 16 2008 // The National Weather Service says that severe weather on May 11 spawned 15 tornadoes in central Georgia. The strongest of the so-called “Mother’s Day tornadoes” occurred in Treutlen County and was an EF3....
May 15 2008 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill that will give automobile insurers the ability to establish rates without the consent of the state’s Insurance Commissioner.Perdue said he signed Senate Bill 276 because he...
May 13 2008 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine said he estimated that violent weather across Georgia over the weekend caused more than $50 million in insured losses, with more than 6,000 homes...
May 12 2008 // Tornadoes killed at least 21 people and injured hundreds as they ripped through the central and southeastern United States over the weekend, destroying homes, overturning cars and downing trees and power lines.Authorities...
Apr 30 2008 // The Georgia Supreme Court heard a case that asks whether carbon monoxide is a pollutant. Leslie Reed says she was poisoned by carbon monoxide at the Griffin, Georgia, home she was renting in 2002. As result, she claims...
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Apr 18 2008 // Georgia’s insurance commissioner said Wednesday he’s running for governor in 2010, making him the first to enter what could be a crowded field of Republican heavyweights jockeying to replace Sonny Perdue.John...
Apr 18 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced a Los Fresnos, Texas, man on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.The court sentenced Frank Tisdale to five...
Apr 14 2008 // Georgia lawmakers couldn’t agree on cuts to property or incomes taxes this legislative session. But they did manage to usher through legislation to provide $146 million to insurance companies over five years.The...
Apr 11 2008 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue announced the release of $20 million in Public Safety Interoperable Communications grants for his state from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.The money will help state and local first...
Apr 10 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating of “bbb-” of Atlanta-based Delta Fire & Casualty Insurance Company.The outlook for these ratings is stable....
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Apr 4 2008 // The mystery of a tire that plunged from the sky and crashed through the roof of a Monroe, Ga. home now has an explanation.Federal Aviation Administration officials told home owner Mark Brown on Tuesday that the wheel...
Apr 3 2008 // Police arrested a man they believe caused a four-car accident in Georgia that killed two children and two adults and injured four others.Cody Rhoden, 20, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday just before midnight, a...
Apr 1 2008 // A small town Georgia hospital destroyed by a tornado a little more than a year ago is ready to open its doors again.Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, Ga., will offer the full gamut of hospital services – from...
Mar 26 2008 // Chattanooga fire investigators arrested four juvenile girls from Georgia on charges of setting fire to a vacant building. A Fire Department statement said no one was injured in the March 20 fire at the former Old Narrow...
Mar 26 2008 // A Jacksonville, Fla. hospital must pay $8.8 million in a malpractice suit filed by a diabetic Georgia woman who says the hospital didn’t administer insulin. The jury awarded the money to Shirlyn Gallagher of...
Mar 24 2008 // President Bush issued a major disaster declaration for six more Georgia counties in response to the tornadoes and severe storms that struck the state this month.This list now includes Bartow, Burke, DeKalb, Floyd,...
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