Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Georgia Law Requires Safety Features on Golf Carts
Dec 29 2011 // Golf cart owners in Georgia will soon have stricter requirements to follow if they plan to drive their carts on roadways. A new law taking effect Jan. 1 creates a separate classification of personal transportation vehicles...
Air Force Building in Georgia Clears the Air for Workplace Safety
Dec 22 2011 // A year ago, Building 169 at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia was the epicenter of the base’s troubles with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An inspection of the building by OSHA investigators found...
Appalachian Underwriters Receives New Endorsement in Georgia
Nov 30 2011 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) will be the exclusively endorsed workers’ compensation provider for the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia. This organization includes 660 member agencies. AUI will utilize...
Judge Orders Georgia Tornado-Damaged Hotel Demolished
Nov 29 2011 // A city judge in the northwest Georgia town of Ringgold has ordered a tornado-ravaged hotel to be torn down. Judge Gene Lowery said in a hearing last week that the Baymont Inn & Suites is an eyesore and must be...
Georgia Jury Awards $9.85 Million in Child’s Drowning
Nov 23 2011 // A Gwinnett County jury has awarded $9.85 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by parents of a 2-year-old who died from drowning in a daycare facility in Buford. The child’s parents, Kemi Green and...
Georgia to Get Earthquake Monitors
Nov 22 2011 // Researchers in a nationwide study of earthquakes will soon place instruments beneath the Georgia red clay and in other eastern states as they seek to learn more about what causes them and where they might...
Georgia Factory Worker Sues After Being Fired for Refusal to Wear ‘666’
Nov 21 2011 // A Georgia factory worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired after he refused to wear a `666′ sticker he feared would doom him to eternal damnation. Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from Pliant Corp., a...
Contractors, Agents Fight to Stay Afloat in Distressed Construction Market
Nov 21 2011 // Some Signs Point to Better Times Ahead, Experts Say The construction market is showing hints of improvement, if only slightly, according to insurance specialists for this market. The contractor class has been one of the...
Georgia to Phase-In Medical Loss Ratio
Nov 21 2011 // Health insurers in Georgia have been granted a waiver to a new federal requirement that they spend certain minimums on patient care and quality. Georgia is the eighth state to get such an exemption from what is known as...
Georgia Allowed to Phase-In Healthcare Law’s Medical Loss Ratio
Nov 9 2011 // Health insurers in Georgia have been granted a waiver to a new federal requirement that they spend certain minimums on patient care and quality. U.S. officials on Tuesday announced that Georgia is the eighth state to get...
Georgia Gator Case
Nov 7 2011 // A divided Georgia Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a case involving a woman found dead in a lagoon that was home to an eight-foot alligator in a subdivision near Savannah. Heirs of 83-year-old Gwyneth...
Business Moves
Nov 7 2011 // The Doctors Co., FPIC Insurance Medical liability insurer The Doctors Co. has completed its previously-announced acquisition of FPIC Insurance Group Inc., a major provider of health care liability insurance in Florida,...
Florida, Georgia Agree on Catastrophe Cooperation Plan
Nov 2 2011 // Florida and Georgia have renewed their partnership to provide services in the event a catastrophe compromises their ability to respond to a disaster. First drafted in 2009, the updated plan is designed to ensure a...
Georgia Court to Weigh Alligator Claim Against Homeowners Association
Oct 21 2011 // A divided Georgia Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a case involving a woman found dead in a lagoon that was home to an eight-foot alligator in a subdivision near Savannah. Heirs of 83-year-old Gwyneth...
Georgia Walkway Settlement
Oct 17 2011 // An attorney for workers who sued over the collapse of an elevated walkway under construction in the treetops at the Atlanta Botanical Garden said settlements totaling more than $15 million have been reached in the case. A...
Cyber Threats to Expect in Coming Year
Oct 11 2011 // The year ahead will feature new and sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over the control of online information that threaten to compromise content and erode public trust and...
Construction Workers Settle in Collapse of Georgia Walkway
Oct 6 2011 // An attorney for workers who sued over the collapse of an elevated walkway under construction in the treetops at the Atlanta Botanical Garden said settlements totaling more than $15 million have been reached in the case. A...
Ex-NBA Player Loses Discrimination Claim Against Georgia Bar
Sep 19 2011 // A federal jury on Friday found that an upscale Atlanta restaurant did not violate the civil rights of an ex-NBA All Star and a friend who claimed they were expelled from the bar because they were black. A panel of nine...
People
Sep 19 2011 // York, Penn.-based Glatfelter Insurance Group has formed Glatfelter Program Managers, a new strategic business unit dedicated to its program business. Arthur Seifert, most recently with Southwest Insurance Partners Inc. and...
Home Insurers in Georgia Want to Hike Rates
Sep 19 2011 // A year after most Georgia insurers increased homeowners premiums by 9 to 23 percent, a new wave of increase requests is pending. State Farm, Georgia’s largest writer of homeowners policies, is seeking a 7 percent...
