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Nov 5 2025 // The Georgia Court of Appeals this week handed down multiple decisions, three of which could indirectly affect property and liability insurance coverage in the state for years to come.In a case over a deliberately set...
Sep 15 2025 // Leaders of a Georgia-based church with congregations in five states have been charged by federal prosecutors with swindling millions of dollars in veterans benefits from parishioners serving in the military.An indictment...
Jul 28 2025 // Two funeral homes allegedly gave grieving parents their deceased son’s brain in a box, which began to smell, leaked into their car and got on the father’s hands when he moved it, according to an updated lawsuit...
Sep 22 2025 // In one of the grimmest, longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent...
Sep 11 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that...
Sep 15 2025 // A judge has rejected an attempt by the state of Georgia and a local development agency to force people who unsuccessfully sued to block an electric vehicle plant to pay the government’s legal fees.State government...
Sep 17 2025 // A Georgia man has been arrested for at least the second time in four years, charged with posing as an insurance agent and selling fake workers’ compensation policies.Fernando Jose Cuellar Membreno, 54, was arrested...
Feb 3 2025 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday reiterated his simple pitch for lawsuit limits: They’ll halt rising insurance costs.The reality, though, is more complicated. Changes could reduce liability insurance costs for...
Nov 10 2025 // Florida insurers will no doubt remember the time more than two years ago when one of the largest plaintiffs’ law firms in the state gave notice that it was planning to file tens of thousands of claims lawsuits ahead...
Oct 7 2025 // A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others.Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted Thursday...
Aug 6 2025 // Three months after a U.S. senator chastized Allstate for its response to a Georgia woman’s storm claim, Allstate has paid more than 10 times its initial payout on the claim, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said...
Jul 11 2025 // NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140 million, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed Thursday.The civil lawsuit by the U.S....
Dec 15 2025 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby. The...
Jun 9 2025 // Homeowners’ insurance premiums in Georgia cost less than in other states. Neither affordability nor availability have been major concerns in a state with hundreds of licensed insurers. But things changed in 2023-2024...
Mar 6 2025 // (AP) — Outside Beacon Hill Middle School in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, like along hundreds of roadsides across Georgia, the unblinking eye of a camera tickets drivers who speed through a school zone.Supporters say...
May 23 2025 // On April 21, 2025, Georgia lawmakers enacted sweeping tort reform through Senate Bills 68 and 69, signaling a significant recalibration of the state’s civil litigation framework. While proponents claim these reforms...
Jan 10 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — After years of stalled efforts to limit civil lawsuits, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Republican lawmakers are doubling down with a new push.Supporters, most prominently business groups, call the state a...
Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...
Nov 24 2025 // A central Georgia insurance agency owner and former Alfa insurance agent of the year must serve more than two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud and misusing more than $220,000 in premiums.Jeremy...
Apr 24 2025 // Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s political organization took to social media to tout his success in limiting lawsuits in a way Georgians could understand. “Thank you” its ad proclaimed, with the words blocked...