All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue today issued an Executive Order declaring a state of emergency in 21 counties in southeast Georgia.The affected counties face severe drought conditions, which have created an extreme and widespread threat...
May 1 2007 // Several rural homes were evacuated in southeastern Georgia after spot fires ignited across a highway from a massive wildfire, and firefighters struggled to put them out before they could spread in the miles of tinder-dry...
Apr 30 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue said additional federal funds were authorized to assist in fighting the “Kneeknocker Fire” that has flared up again in Georgia’s Brantley County, just outside the city limits of...
Apr 25 2007 // Severe tornadoes in several southern states helped push catastrophe losses to more than $1.2 billion during the first quarter of 2007, according to the industry’s Property Claim Services (PCS), a unit of Insurance...
Apr 24 2007 // Engle Martin & Associates, Inc., an Atlanta-based multi-line insurance claims administration and adjusting company, has acquired the specialty fraternal and not-for-profit services of Litigation Management Services,...
Apr 17 2007 // Georgia’s top insurance regulator is warning that auto insurance costs could go up $400 million if lawmakers pass a bill changing uninsured motorist insurance.The legislation, Senate Bill 276, has been working its...
Apr 16 2007 // The Georgia House Judiciary Committee gave the green light last week to a measure that would overhaul the way insurance companies pay for accidents involving underinsured drivers, despite warnings from Georgia’s top...
Apr 9 2007 // In approving workers’ compensation benefits for the family of deceased Florida resident Howard King, the Georgia Supreme Court cited a doctrine of “continuous employment” in its 4-3 decision, voiding two...
Apr 9 2007 // News CurrentsIn approving workers’ compensation benefits for the family of deceased Florida resident Howard King, the Georgia Supreme Court cited a doctrine of “continuous employment” in its 4-3 decision,...
Apr 2 2007 // President Bush has authorized additional relief for Georgia communities hit by tornadoes and severe storms earlier this month, saying the federal government would pick up the full tab for debris removal and other eligible...
Apr 2 2007 // In a narrow margin to approve workers compensation benefits for the family of deceased Florida resident Howard King, the Georgia Supreme Court cited a doctrine of “continuous employment” in its 4-3 decision,...
Mar 20 2007 // Families like the Fretwells seem to be forgotten in the annual turf war between doctors and lawyers in Georgia’s Capitol over who should be protected from malpractice lawsuits.Like others, Rodney and Sherry Fretwell...
Mar 14 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue and Republican legislative leaders have agreed to a temporary fix for PeachCare, allowing some 273,000 poor children in Georgia to continue receiving health insurance even as federal dollars dry...
Mar 12 2007 // News CurrentsInsurance officials in Florida, where a spate of hurricanes have set the industry into turmoil, pitched the idea recently of multistate insurance pools for natural disasters to their colleagues from across the...
Mar 9 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue released $3 million from the state’s emergency discretionary fund to cover past and future expenses incurred by local governments in responding to last week’s severe weather.Preliminary...
Mar 5 2007 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who was recently elected to his fourth four-year term, thinks Main Street insurance agents are being treated unfairly in the debate over agency compensation and isn’t...
Feb 23 2007 // Custard Insurance Adjusters Inc. promoted Robert Soby to chairman of the board and chief executive officer and Rick Linville to president. While Soby and Linville have led CIA in most facets of operations and sales for...
Feb 22 2007 // Insurance officials in Florida, where a spate of hurricanes have set the industry into turmoil, pitched the idea recently of multistate insurance pools for natural disasters to their colleagues from across the...
Feb 14 2007 // House Republicans introduced a measure that requires Georgia’s top insurance official to sign off on each medical malpractice rate hike, saying they’re unconvinced that new state laws aimed at suppressing...
Feb 12 2007 // Oxendine defends Main Street independent insurance agentsGeorgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who was recently elected to his fourth four-year term, spoke with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega Wells at the...