Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Governor Wants to Pay off $150 Million State Workers’ Comp Backlog
Jan 24 2022 // Thanks to an unexpectedly large state budget surplus for 2021, Georgia’s governor wants to pay off a $150 million backlog of workers’ compensation benefits due to state employees. Gov. Brian Kemp’s budget...
Relation Acquires Georgia-based Allen, a Trucking Insurance Specialist
Jan 19 2022 // California-based Relation Insurance Services has reached across the country to acquire trucking industry specialist Allen Insurance Group, headquartered in Georgia. Based in Fort Valley, Georgia, Allen offers commercial...
People Moves: Southern Adds Garage Underwriter in Georgia
Jan 18 2022 // Southern Insurance Underwriters, a managing general agency based in Atlanta, has named Whitney Griffith new underwriter for garage insurance. Griffith, who will be in SIU’s Alpharetta, Georgia, office, has more than...
Two Wanted in Georgia After Creating Fake Insurance Company
Jan 13 2022 // Two women have been charged with insurance fraud in North Carolina after car crashes, and three men and a woman in Georgia are wanted for other types of fraud, including the creation of a fake insurance company. The...
In About-Face, Georgia Joins $26 Billion Opioid Settlement
Jan 10 2022 // The state of Georgia has decided to join a proposed $26 billion nationwide settlement resolving lawsuits alleging that three large drug distributors and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson fueled the deadly U.S. opioid...
Winter Storms Strike Kentucky, Georgia, Carolina, DC
Jan 3 2022 // Storms over the New Year’s Day weekend knocked out power, caused property damage, triggered flash flooding and snow and closed schools and government offices. In Kentucky, less than three weeks after tornadoes...
Georgia Man Wanted for Deliberately Damaging Roof During Inspection
Dec 21 2021 // Solicitation by roofers may be a problem in many states, but in Georgia, authorities are now searching for a man who offered to inspect a home’s roof after a storm then deliberately damaged more than 200...
Confie Acquires Velox Insurance to Expand in Georgia Market
Dec 14 2021 // Confie, a U.S. independent personal lines distributor, will acquire Velox Insurance as an affiliate to its nonstandard national brand, Freeway Insurance. The acquisition includes all 40 locations in Georgia, tripling...
OSHA Fines Georgia Grading Contractor $20,480 After Worker’s Death
Nov 30 2021 // If federal workplace safety requirements had been followed, a 24-year-old Georgia worker would not have been killed in a front-end loader accident in May, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. OSHA...
Georgia, North Carolina Move to Beef up Benefits for First Responders
Nov 30 2021 // Two Southern states have taken steps to provide improved benefits for first responders who suffer from mental conditions and from cancers that may be linked to workplace hazards. In North Carolina, lawmakers approved a...
Georgia High Court Leaves Truck Insurer on the Hook for Accident
Nov 24 2021 // If the owner of a trucking company drives one of his company’s trucks to a friend’s house for free repairs, is that considered a business use of the truck, or personal use? The Georgia Supreme Court effectively...
Warrants Issued for Woman After False Claims Filed in Georgia
Nov 23 2021 // Georgia authorities are searching for a Virginia woman wanted for insurance fraud after she allegedly filed false claims on personal property. Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King said in a bulletin that warrants had...
Georgia Man Wanted for Submitting Fake Police Report on Insurance Claim
Nov 16 2021 // Georgia authorities are on the lookout for a man who they say submitted false insurance claims for $42,000 in personal property that was never stolen. Arrest warrants have been issued for Tyrone Bernard Briscoe, 35, of...
Insurers for High Crime Areas on Notice after Georgia Court Affirms $43M Verdict
Nov 12 2021 // A Georgia appeals court has upheld a $43 million premises liability verdict against the CVS Pharmacy chain, ruling that the company failed to take security measures to prevent the shooting of a patron in 2012. The case is...
Venbrook Acquires Georgia E&S MGA
Nov 10 2021 // Venbrook Group, an independent insurance distribution and services firm, has acquired Alpharetta Underwriters, a specialty managing general agent that offers excess and surplus coverage for the construction...
Kaiser Workers Set to Strike in Georgia This Week
Nov 3 2021 // Health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Georgia have voted to strike over Kaiser’s changes in pay and benefits. The United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1996 voted over the last week to authorize...
Orion180 Expands Home Insurtech Model Into Georgia, South Carolina
Nov 3 2021 // Orion 180, a homeowners’ insurtech company, has expanded into Georgia and will soon move into South Carolina, the company said this week. Orion, based in Melbourne, Florida, uses technology to allow homeowners to...
Purchase of Insurance Does Not Waive Sovereign Immunity, Georgia Court Finds
Oct 29 2021 // The city of Alpharetta, Georgia, did not waive its sovereign immunity when it obtained an insurance policy, an appeals court said Thursday, two years after a man drowned in a city pool. In Sharma vs. City of Alpharetta,...
Georgia to Hold Hearing on Insurance Rule Changes
Oct 28 2021 // The Georgia insurance commissioner is proposing a wide range of rule changes for insurance and fire safety. A hearing will be held Nov. 22, and written comments can be submitted by Nov. 15, the office said in a...
Georgia Court Says No Double Dip on Auto Policies After Accident
Oct 27 2021 // The injured party in an automobile collision cannot double-dip on insurance coverage simply because she calls the payment from the other driver’s policy “punitive damages,” a Georgia appeals court has...
