Southeast News for October 2009 Flooded Georgia Homeowners Seek Buyouts by Cobb County Georgia Auto Fraud Ringleader Arrested With Katrina Insurance Finally Settled, Mississippi College Starts Rebuilding Homeowners Choice to Pick Up American Keystone Business in Florida Florida Approves 5.4% Citizens Homeowners Rate Hike EPIC Names Hall as Principal Based in Atlanta Jury Awards North Carolina Soldier $750K in Training Shooting Georgia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Southeastern US Faces Liquidation 21st Century Holding Firmly Rejects Homeowners Choice Buyout Key Risk Promotes Marcus Gulfport, Mississippi to Start Environmental Claims Court Alabama Attorney’s Suit Against Scruggs Assigned to Judge in Texas Mississippi School District Sued Again Over Alleged Paddling of Student Sheffield to Tout Regulatory Role in Georgia Insurance Commissioner Race Schwarzbach Named Underwriting Vice President for Atlantic Casualty All in the Family: North Carolina Brother, Sister Charged with Fraud South Carolina Court Hears Wildfire Case This Week Proposed West Virginia ‘Fat Tax’ Hit Florida 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut Officially Approved Southeast States Among Most Exposed to Climate Change Impact: Report Georgia Man with Flood Damaged Home Wins Lottery Florida’s Citizens Vows to Validate Its $700 Million in Mitigation Credits Florida Judge: $97M Nicaraguan Judgment Against Dole Unenforceable GEICO Opens West Virginia Office Florida’s Citizens Reconsiders, Renews House With Chinese Drywall Florida Urged to Hike All Citizens Property Insurance Rates By 10% Florida Approves 14.6% Homeowners Insurance Rate Hike for Universal Deadline Nears for for Georgia Workers Seeking Flood Income Assistance Florida Peninsula Offers to Pick Up Home Policies Dropped by Nationwide West Virginia Insurer Brickstreet Plans to Trim 24 Jobs Florida to Hear Citizens Property Insurance Rate Hikes of 5% to 10% Georgia Supreme Court Blocks ‘Stacking’ of Auto Insurance Policies Florida Blocks Another Home Service Warranty Seller Mississippi Witnessing Rise in Women Charged with Drunk Driving Alabama Supreme Court Throws Out $274M in Verdicts Against Drug Makers North Carolina Arrests 3 More in Alleged Staged Auto Accident Ring Kentucky Pol Suspect in Insurance Examiner Murder Denied Release Tennessee Hears Calls for Safety Oversight As ATV Death Toll Rises Mississippi Rep. Taylor Urges Obama to Reform Flood Insurance Program Insurers Backing Away from Homes with Chinese Drywall Tower Group Acquires AequiCap’s Florida Workers’ Comp Business Florida’s Homeowners Choice Makes Bid for 21st Century Holding Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut Georgia Parent Pushes for Teen Driver Education Funds Florida Halts Home Service Warranty Seller Florida’s American Keystone Insurance to Be Liquidated Miami Insurance Agent Accused of $14 Million in Premium Finance Fraud North Carolina Firms Seek to Limit Liability in Parasailing Deaths Georgia Man Wins $9 Million Injury Lawsuit Kentucky to Post Motorist Death Toll on Highways $60 Million Sought in Mississippi Crash That Killed 2 Doctors Florida Insurance Chief Grilled by Lawmakers West Virginia Racetrack Settles Lawsuit with Paralyzed Jockey Economic Outlook for Coastal Mississippi, Alabama Brightens Florida Says Medical Malpractice Rates Decline, Market Is Competitive Nationwide Insurance to Drop 60,000 Home Policies in Florida Georgia’s Seacrest Insurance Keeps Expanding, Adds O’Sako Mississippi Ruling on State Farm Rate Hike Expected Next Month Florida’s ‘Whocanisue’ Legal Web Site Attracts Plaintiffs, Irks Other Lawyers Mississippi City Gets Tough Over Fire Code Violation Changes at Tower Hill Secure Rating from Demotech Chubb Post-Storm Inspections Available in Georgia, South Carolina South Carolina Still Looking for Lessons from Myrtle Beach Wildfire Highway Fatalities Up in Kentucky West Virginia County Worried Over Spate of School Bus Crashes Nationwide Insurance Donates $50K to Red Cross for Georgia Flood Victims Florida Hearing on 6.8% Workers Compensation Rate Drop Set for Oct. 6 745 Georgia Homes Destroyed By Flooding, Says Red Cross Kentucky Forest Fire Hazard Season Begins Morse Joins Willis Employee Benefits in Atlanta Valiant Insurance Expands with Atlanta Office Southeast News Archives