Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Teacher Not Liable for Student Injury, Rules State’s High Court
Jul 19 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court says a Forsyth County teacher can’t be held liable for a student’s injury during a bottle rocket experiment. The court ruled recently in a 4-3 decision that South Forsyth Middle School...
Georgia Couples Who Own Land in Florida Sue BP
Jul 15 2010 // Two Atlanta couples are suing BP PLC for damages as a result of the Gulf oil spill. The class-action lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia, seeks compensation for loss of income, property value and...
Georgia Insurance Chief Oxendine Appeared in Video for Campaign Donor
Jul 14 2010 // An Atlanta TV station is reporting that State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine appeared in a video promoting a hospice business whose top corporate officer can be linked to $57,000 in campaign donations. According to a...
Georgia Tech Student Sues Over Fall from ‘Ramblin’ Wreck’
Jul 13 2010 // A Georgia Tech student is suing the school and a Cobb County metal fabricator after he suffered injuries when a hand rail broke and he fell off Tech’s iconic car, the Ramblin’ Wreck. Nicholas Brown’s...
Imperial Sugar to Pay $4 Million Fine for Deadly Georgia Blast
Jul 9 2010 // Imperial Sugar has agreed to pay more than $4 million in fines for safety violations at its Georgia refinery where a dust explosion killed 14 workers in 2008, federal regulators said. The settlement with the U.S....
Georgia Court Finds Teacher Not Liable for Student Injury
Jul 6 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court says a Forsyth County teacher can’t be held liable for a student’s injury during a bottle rocket experiment. The court ruled last week in a 4-3 decision that South Forsyth Middle...
Brown & Brown Acquires Eberhart & Co. of Georgia
Jul 6 2010 // Florida-based agency Brown & Brown has acquired Eberhart & Company Insurors, Inc.of Roswell, Georgia. With revenues of approximately $1 million, Eberhart has served the insurance needs of individuals and businesses...
Declarations
Jul 5 2010 // BP Claims Law “I think the best way to look at it is the way Congress looked at 9/11 cases. Would your claim be applicable under state and, in this case, maritime law? If the state would recognize it, then I will...
Breckenridge IS Acquires Georgia’s Overby-Seawell
Jun 24 2010 // Breckenridge IS, Inc., a specialty underwriter and program management company based in Cleveland, has acquired Overby-Seawell Co., a Kennesaw, Georgia-based specialty financial services insurance broker to...
Hearings on Insurance Donations to Georgia’s Oxendine Cancelled
Jun 22 2010 // A Fulton County Superior Court judge has halted a scheduled hearing next week by the State Ethics Commission on State Mutual Insurance Company’s $120,000 political contributions to John Oxendine, current insurance...
Primary Nears for Republicans Running for Georgia Insurance Post
Jun 18 2010 // A crowded field of candidates is battling it out to become the state’s next insurance commissioner, with several vowing to fight the new federal health care law. Nine Republicans and one Democrat have entered the...
Preacher’s Son, Accomplice Plead Guilty in Georgia Church Arson
Jun 16 2010 // Two of three men charged with arson in a 2005 fire that destroyed a church pleaded guilty in Barrow County Superior Court in Georgia. Maurice Arnold and Bruce Edward Smith pleaded guilty. Prosecutors say the Rev. Quincy...
Georgia Preacher, Son Face Church Arson Charge
Jun 9 2010 // A Georgia preacher and his son accused of burning down their church to claim an insurance check are scheduled to appear in Barrow County Superior Court. Quincy Arnold of Lawrenceville, the 50-year-old pastor of the former...
Georgia to Allow Failed Insurers’ Clients to Buy Into Insolvency Pool
Jun 9 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a bill allowing employers whose previous workers compensation carrier goes out of business to pay into the insolvency pool to cover injured workers’ claims. The law has...
Ratings Recap: Builders Group, FMH Group, MAG Mutual, Nationwide (Fla.)
Jun 7 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a-” of Builders Insurance Group and its...
Georgia Bans Texting While Driving; Targets Teens
Jun 7 2010 // Put down the cell phone and step away from the car. Georgia drivers soon will be banned from texting, checking e-mail or using the Internet behind the wheel and teens will be prohibited from using their cell phones at all...
Adults in Pickup Trucks Must Now Wear Seat Belts in Georgia
Jun 4 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is preparing to sign legislation requiring adults riding in pickup trucks to wear seat belts. Perdue was scheduled to go to Dalton, Ga., to sign the measure Thursday afternoon. The legislation had...
Timing of Georgia Insurance Chief’s Ethics Probe Stirs Controversy
Jun 3 2010 // An ethics activist is defending the State Ethics Commission’s decision to schedule a hearing involving GOP gubernatorial candidate and state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine less than a month before the crowded...
Georgia’s Insurance Chief Oxendine Faces Ethics Hearing Before Primary
Jun 1 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine is scheduled to go before the state ethics commission less than a month before a crowded primary contest in which he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Stefan...
3 Arrested for Georgia Insurance Agent’s Death in Louisiana
May 6 2010 // Three people have been arrested in the death of a Georgia insurance agent who was killed during an early morning holdup at a Waffle House restaurant in Baton Rouge, La. Sgt. Don Kelly says 21-year-old Antonius Jones of...
