Latest Georgia Headlines
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Georgia Investment Manager Charged with Siphoning $6M from GEICO
Aug 14 2024 // A Georgia grand jury has indicted an investment manager, charging that he diverted almost $6 million from GEICO Insurance for his own use. Dwayne Peterson Davis, 54, of Atlanta, was a business partner with GEICO in a...
Staged Auto Accident Leads to Murder, Conviction in Georgia
Aug 12 2024 // First, he orchestrated a staged auto accident in Georgia. Then he murdered a co-conspirator in 2019 in a disagreement over payment from insurance proceeds related to the faked crash. Today, Norman Uriah Simmonds Jr., 45,...
Sign of the Times: With Debby, Georgia Neighborhood Floods Twice Since 2016
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...
King Insurance Partners Acquires Lincoln Group in Georgia
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...
Hurricane Debby Brings Six Deaths, Widespread Flood Losses in Florida, Georgia, SC
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...
Georgia Woman Charged with Insurance Fraud After Claimed Injuries
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...
From the Plaintiffs’ View: Unintended Consequences of SB 426 on Georgia Insurance
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...
J&J MGA Acquires Georgia-Based Strickland General Agency
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...
ALKEME Acquires Georgia’s Morris & Templeton Agency
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...
Georgia Appeals Court Questions Insolvency Pool’s Subrogation in Comp Cases
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...
Georgia Governor Reappoints Bahl to Workers’ Comp Board
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...
OSHA Fines Georgia Sawmill $267,300 After Death of Worker
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...
NY Plane Crash Kills 5 Members of Georgia Family, Including Former Insurance Analyst
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,...
Fire That Destroyed Historic Georgia Home Found to Be Arson
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....
Hub Acquires Skinner & Co. in Georgia
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....
PointeNorth Acquires McCrary-Daniels in Georgia, its Fifth Expansion This Year
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...
Georgia Statute of Limitations Not Automatically Tolled in Negligent Security Cases
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...
B&B Adds Georgia-based Public Entities Team in Latest Acquisition
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...
Georgia County Must Pay for Transgender Deputy’s Surgery, Appeals Court Says
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...
Georgia AG Says Savannah Overstepped on Ordinance Banning Guns in Unlocked Cars
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...
