All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 9 2024 // POOLER, Ga. (AP) — The water began seeping into Keon Johnson’s house late Monday night after Tropical Storm Debby had been dumping rain nearly nonstop throughout the day.By Tuesday morning, Johnson’s street...
Aug 7 2024 // King Insurance Parnters, based in Gainesville, Florida, continues to expand with the acquisition of Lincoln Insurance Group in McDonough, Georgia. Lincoln is an independent agency that offers auto, home, life and...
Aug 6 2024 // Hurricane Debby left at least six people dead Monday along with widespread flooding in the same parts of Florida and Georgia that were swamped by Hurricane Idalia less than a year ago.Debby made landfall near Steinhatchee,...
Aug 6 2024 // A woman in north Georgia has been charged with insurance fraud after she claimed that a “personal care device” caused injuries that cost as much as $350,000 to treat.Kamala Anderson, 45, of Snellville, was...
Aug 6 2024 // For decades, Georgia’s insurance industry has sought to eliminate the long-standing provision allowing trucking-accident plaintiffs to sue insurance companies directly. This was the single most important issue the...
Aug 2 2024 // Johnson & Johnson, a managing general agency working in 48 states, has acquired Strickland General Agency in Suwanee, Georgia, J&J announced. The deal closed July 31. Terms were not disclosed. Strickland, known as...
Jul 26 2024 // ALKEME, a national insurance broker, has acquired Morris & Templeton in Savannah, Georgia, expanding ALKEME’s footprint in the Southeast. Morris & Templeton was founded in 1981, offering commercial and...
Jul 18 2024 // Georgia employers and their workers’ compensation insurers can rest a little easier after an appeals court this week narrowed the circumstances in which a state guaranty association can seek reimbursement on claims...
Jul 16 2024 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has reaapointed Neera Bahl to another term on the state Board of Workers’ Compensation. The three-member board, which includes Director Benjamin Vinson and Chairman Frank McKay, acts as the...
Jul 5 2024 // A Georgia sawmill could have prevented the death of a 24-year-old worker last year if it had followed safety procedures and federal regulations, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in fining the...
Jul 3 2024 // MASONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Five members of a family from Georgia, including a former insurance analyst, who were visiting Cooperstown, New York, for a baseball tournament died when their small plane crashed in a rural,...
Jul 3 2024 // DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — A man has been charged with starting a fire that destroyed a nearly century-old home on the site of a coastal Georgia rice plantation that’s associated with the largest slave auction in U.S....
Jul 3 2024 // Hub International, a global insurance brokerage, has acquired Georgia-based Skinner & Co., a brokerage offering commercial coverage, performance bonds and risk management services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Jun 12 2024 // PointeNorth Insurance Group, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the Southeast, has acquired McCrary-Daniels Insurance, based in Douglas, Georgia. It’s the fifth acquisition this year and the second...
May 21 2024 // Insurers covering property in Georgia could be on the hook for personal injuries occurring on the premises if the property owners and property managers do not fulfill their duty to exercise ordinary care in keeping their...
May 20 2024 // A part of Brown & Brown’s wholesale insurance group has acquired Public Entities of America LLC, a brokerage based in Alpharetta, Georgia, that has catered to the public sector and risk management...
May 16 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff’s deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery.In its...
May 8 2024 // SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority by making it illegal to leave firearms in unlocked cars.Savannah’s mayor and city council in April...
May 8 2024 // The Georgia insurance commissioner is accepting comments on proposed rule changes that would cut the pre-licensing course load by almost two-thirds for personal lines agents.“The primary purpose of the proposed...
May 7 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor on Thursday signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement.The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, prohibits...