All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 2 2003 // The Georgia Department of Insurance released comprehensive mold endorsement filing guidelines, providing insurers with guidance on the minimum level of mold coverage required in homeowners and commercial lines...
May 16 2003 // A bill that passed both houses of the Georgia Legislature contains several positive civil justice reforms and should be signed into law by the governor, according to the Alliance of American Insurers. According to the...
Apr 21 2003 // The Georgia Senate unanimously approved legislation allowing insurers to use credit-based insurance scores in underwriting and rating homeowners and auto insurance coverage, according to the American Insurance Association...
Apr 18 2003 // Insurers and legislators who have collaborated on a bill designed to fine-tune Georgia’s motor vehicle insurance database are hoping that an unrelated amendment will not spoil chances of the bill’s eventual...
Apr 8 2003 // As the budget-dominated first year of a two-year Georgia legislative session winds down, a handful of insurance-related bills still remain to be settled, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers...
Apr 4 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine ordered First Actual American Insurance Company to stop marketing medical malpractice liability in his state. Oxendine said the company is not licensed or authorized to sell...
Mar 27 2003 // Bermuda-based AlphaStar Insurance Group Limited reported it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell three subsidiaries to an affiliate of American Insurance Managers Inc. (AIM) of Atlanta, Ga.The subsidiaries being...
Mar 17 2003 // Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s firing of the state’s insurance consumer advocate is a step in the right direction toward streamlining the insurance process and reestablishing the insurance commissioner’s...
Mar 14 2003 // The Department of Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business announced the appointment of Kevin T. Cronin, J.D., as a Professor of Legal Studies.Recognized for his...
Feb 27 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine recently spoke out on the need for judicial reform as a way to encourage insurers to compete for business in the state. According to the National Association of Independent...
Feb 25 2003 // A House bill limiting insurers from using credit-based insurance scores as the sole criterion in rating and underwriting recently passed the Georgia House Insurance Subcommittee, according to the National Association of...
Feb 13 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) said that over 20 Georgia senators are sponsoring a bipartisan civil justice reform act designed to address the high cost of health care and patient access.“The...
Jan 15 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced that the Consumer Services Division of the Georgia Department of Insurance helped tens of thousands of Georgia consumers settle insurance company disputes in 2002,...
Jan 10 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers said Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has asked the group to coordinate an insurance industry effort to develop language that will be used to spell out coverage for mold in...
Nov 8 2002 // Attorney Lewis E. Hassett, chair of the Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution Group at Atlanta-based Morris Manning & Martin LLP, was appointed by Georgia Governor Roy Barnes to the Board of Commissioners of...
Oct 31 2002 // Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (GFB), based in Atlanta, will deploy Hughes Network Sytems’ (HNS) DIRECWAY(R) satellite solution for network services. Signal Mountain will be the service provider. With...
Oct 4 2002 // The NeighborWorks® National Insurance Task Force announced it is offering the Certified Community Insurance Counselor Training Program on October 25, 2002, in Decatur, Ga. There is no charge for the training program. The...
Aug 29 2002 // Insurity(SM), a ChoicePoint® company, has renewed a licensing agreement with Georgia Casualty and Surety Company for policy administration products and services. Under the agreement, Insurity will convert Georgia...
Jul 15 2002 // Jim W. Henderson, Executive Vice President of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Frank A. Brown, Jr., President of Cooper, Brown & Currie, Inc., of Rome, Georgia, announced the asset acquisition of Cooper, Brown &...
Jun 25 2002 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has revoked the licenses of two Savannah insurance agents convicted of fraud. William Knight III and Varnedoe Hancock were indicted on fraud charges after Hancock allegedly sold...