Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Professors’ Challenge to Allowing Guns on Campus
Jun 1 2023 // Georgia’s highest court this week upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by five college professors challenging the removal of public colleges and universities from a list of “school...
Lightning May Not Have Struck at All: Georgia Man Wanted for False Insurance Claims
May 30 2023 // Authorities were searching this week for a Georgia man who falsely claimed a lightning strike caused more than $18,000 in damage to his property, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King said in a bulletin. Salvatore...
Georgia Workers at Largest School Bus Maker, Blue Bird, Vote to Unionize
May 19 2023 // Workers in Georgia at one of the nation’s largest school bus manufacturers have voted to unionize. Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United Steelworkers union by a vote of 697-435, according...
OSHA Cites Georgia Wood Treating, Maintenance Firm for Arsenic Exposure
May 18 2023 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Georgia wood-treating company and its maintenance firm for exposing workers to high levels of arsenic, actions that could result in as much as $180,000 in...
Driver Falls Asleep, 18-wheeler Hits Federal Courthouse in Georgia
May 15 2023 // A federal courthouse in Georgia was damaged when the driver of a tractor trailer fell asleep and the truck hit the building last week. The crash into the J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse in Dublin happened at about 12:30...
Georgia Commissioner Wants Consumers to Stay Away from ‘Dirt-Cheap Insurance’
May 11 2023 // Georgia’s insurance commissioner is warning consumers to steer clear of Dirt-Cheap Insurance, an unlicensed outfit that he said has sold fraudulent policies in the state. Three people associated with Dirt-Cheap,...
Hylant Expands with Acquisition of Aegis Insurance in Georgia
May 11 2023 // Hylant, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerages, announced it has acquired Aegis Insurance Services Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, a broker and agency specializing in the moving and storage industry. Aegis,...
Brown & Brown Buys Brownlee Agency in Georgia
May 10 2023 // Brown & Brown has acquired Georgia-based Brownlee Agency, one of the oldest insurance agencies on Florida’s east coast. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, the companies said in a news release. Founded in 1974...
Georgia Couple Wins $135.5M for Land Damaged by Runoff from Solar Farm
May 5 2023 // A federal jury has awarded a Georgia couple $135.5 million for damages to their property by a Tennessee-based solar company and its contractor. The award against Silicon Ranch Corp. and its contractor, IEA Inc., was...
‘Insufficient Support’ Blamed for Collapse of Georgia Courthouse Under Renovation
May 4 2023 // Construction crews had placed “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the 124-year-old federal courthouse in Savannah, according to the government agency...
Georgia Sheriff’s Chief of Staff Charged with Insurance Fraud in ‘Hit-and-Run’ Claim
May 1 2023 // The chief of staff for an Atlanta-area sheriff has been charged with insurance fraud after an investigation found that he had lied about the circumstances of an accident. Braxton Tyree Cotton, 41, a major in the Cobb...
Oakbridge Adds Another: Wilson Insurance in Georgia
Apr 20 2023 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency has continued its growth plans with the acquisition of of Wilson Insurance in Waycross, Georgia. The move is the latest expansion for Atlanta-based Oakbridge, which said it is now one of the...
Shelter-in-Place Order Lifted After Georgia Chemical Plant Fire Extinguished
Apr 18 2023 // Emergency crews extinguished a fire at a Georgia chemical plant shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, allowing officials to lift a shelter-in-place order issued in the afternoon when the fire broke out for the second time in the...
Two Tornadoes Confirmed in Georgia Towns
Apr 17 2023 // The National Weather Service confirmed two weak tornadoes touched down last week in middle Georgia. No one was reported injured in either storm. A tornado with top winds of 90 mph touched down on the southeast edge of...
Labor Recruiter Gets Life for Killing of Georgia Man Who Blew Whistle on Wage Skimming
Apr 14 2023 // A Mexican citizen was sentenced Monday to life in a U.S. prison for killing a man who reported him and his brother to authorities for cheating migrant workers out of millions of dollars. A U.S. District Court judge in...
Georgia Crash Sends 14, Including Children, to Hospital
Apr 5 2023 // A crash involving three vehicles in coastal Georgia early Monday sent 14 people to the hospital with injuries, authorities said. The wreck happened about 3 a.m. in McIntosh County when an SUV traveling the wrong way struck...
DOXA Acquires Georgia-based Preferred Aviation MGA
Apr 4 2023 // DOXA Insurance Holdings, an Indiana firm, has expanded its stable of distribution companies with the recent acquisition of Georgia-based Preferred Aviation Underwriters, a managing general agent. PAU, headquartered in...
Georgia Lawmakers Approve Lower Uninsured Motorist Coverage for Ride Sharing
Mar 28 2023 // The Georgia General Assembly on Monday approved a bill that would require lower minimum amounts of uninsured motorist coverage for ride-sharing and taxi companies. But a measure that would mandate premium discounts for...
Georgia Lawmakers Flip the Script on Use-and-File for Auto Rate Increases
Mar 27 2023 // Georgia lawmakers have approved a bill that, if signed into law, would end the longstanding “use-and-file” mechanism on auto insurance rate filings in the state. The state Senate last week voted 49-2 in favor...
Georgia Firefighter Charged with Arson of His Own Home After Filing $700,000 Claim
Mar 16 2023 // One year after Georgia volunteer firefighter Todd Anthony said a kitchen fire burned down his house and he filed a $700,000 insurance claim, authorities have charged the man with arson. Anthony, 56, of Greensboro, was...
