Latest Georgia Headlines
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Authorities on Alert After South Georgia Church Break-Ins
Aug 27 2015 // Law officers are searching for suspects who burglarized two Georgia churches. WTOC-TV reports that the break-ins are believed to have happened August 22 at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Alston and Tabernacle of...
11 Georgia Residents Charged With Staging Car Accidents
Aug 25 2015 // On August 24, investigators from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ Fraud division, with assistance from Bibb County Sherriff David Davis and his deputies, arrested six Macon, Ga., residents on charges of...
3 Georgia Residents Charged With Insurance Fraud
Aug 21 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ office issued a warrant last week for three Treutlen County residents on charges related to insurance fraud. Theresa Dyer, 59, was charged with one count of insurance...
Study: In 1st Year, 2 Florida Laws Reduced Amount of Opioids Prescribed
Aug 19 2015 // Two Florida laws, enacted to fight prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed the first year the laws were in place, a new study...
PIA of Georgia Elects New President
Aug 12 2015 // Dwight Taylor Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Dwight L. Taylor, to serve as president of the nation’s sixth largest affiliate at their annual meeting held in Savannah,...
Prosecutors Want Life Sentence in Georgia Peanut Exec Salmonella Case
Aug 10 2015 // Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a...
Georgia-Based INSUREtrust Adds Josaphs, Dollar to Cyber Team
Aug 7 2015 // INSUREtrust in Atlanta, Ga., has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team. Vince Josaphs Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs’ has 15 years of...
Regions Insurance Acquires Georgia-Based The A.I. Group
Aug 5 2015 // Regions Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Regions Insurance Group, Inc. and an affiliate of Regions Bank, has acquired The A.I. Group, Inc., with offices in Greater Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. The A.I. Group provides...
Olson to Lead the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia as CEO
Jul 31 2015 // Betsy K. Olson was appointed chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia after a unanimous vote of its Board of Directors on July 29, 2015. Olson will take the reins on September 1. “Betsy...
Breckenridge Insurance Services Adds Regional Vice President Patricia Berry and Two Vice President Brokers
Jul 20 2015 // Pictured left to right: Patricia Berry, Chris Holmes, Paul Hamilton Atlanta, GA, July 20, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has added three brokers with...
People – Southeast
Jul 20 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has made a series of senior appointments to its business. Hiram Marrero has been appointed national partner of Willis’s South Region. He will be responsible...
GEICO Expands Ridesharing Coverage to Georgia
Jul 20 2015 // GEICO has continued the expansion of its new auto insurance product for drivers of transportation network companies (TNC) with the addition of Georgia. GEICO offers ridesharing coverage through GEICO Commercial for less...
Georgia City Proposes Overtime Pay Settlement with Firefighters
Jul 17 2015 // Augusta, Ga., commissioners are proposing a settlement with firefighters who have sued the city saying they’re owed overtime pay. The Augusta Chronicle reports commissioners voted to offer $58,455 to the group of...
Georgia City Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit From Ex-Deputy Coroner
Jul 15 2015 // The City of Augusta, Ga., has settled a whistleblower suit against a former deputy coroner who said he was retaliated against for reporting that the coroner was stealing money and property from dead people. The Augusta...
Georgia Hopes to Establish State as Captive-Friendly with Revised Law
Jul 14 2015 // Companies looking to form captives in Georgia can now do so with more favorable conditions since the passage of several business-friendly amendments to the Georgia captive insurance law, which became effective July 1. The...
Drone Supporters Clash with Georgia Over Capitol Airspace Ban
Jul 14 2015 // Drone enthusiasts are calling a ban on the unmanned vehicles within five miles of Georgia’s Capitol an overreach of authority by state officials, while agency officials argue the change is necessary and follows...
Georgia Hopes to Establish State as Captive-Friendly with Newly-Revised Law Lowering Taxes, Capital Requirements
Jul 6 2015 // Companies looking to form captives in Georgia can now do so with more favorable conditions since the passage of several business-friendly amendments to the Georgia captive insurance law, which became effective July 1. The...
Siegel Elected as President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia
Jul 2 2015 // Andy N. Siegel, president of Siegel Insurance, Inc., a Trusted Choice insurance agency in Atlanta, was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) on June 13, during the...
Georgia Chiropractor Indicted On 12 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Jun 25 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that a Bibb County Grand Jury indicted Roswell chiropractor Victor L. Dees for 12 counts of insurance fraud based off an investigation conducted by the Department of...
Dogs Assist Investigators in Sniffing out Georgia Arson Cases
Jun 23 2015 // Iggie is one of the most important tools in Columbus, Ga.’s fight against arson, and he’s only two years old. Iggie is a yellow lab trained to detect fire accelerants such as gasoline and other materials...
