Latest Georgia Headlines
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Hudgens Wins Georgia Insurance Commissioner Runoff
Aug 11 2010 // The runoff election for the Republican candidate for the state Insurance Commissioner of Georgia has been won by State Sen. Ralph T. Hudgens. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Hudgens had 55 percent of the vote,...
Georgia’s Atlantic American Reports Increased Income
Aug 10 2010 // Atlantic American Corporation has reported net income of $76 thousand, or nil per diluted share, for the three month period ended June 30, 2010, compared to net income of $12 thousand, or a loss of $0.01 per diluted share,...
Georgia Insurance Commissioner Decided Tomorrow
Aug 9 2010 // Voters in Georgia go to the polls tomorrow for a runoff election in which they will vote for one of two Republican candidates for state insurance commissioner. The two, Maria Sheffield and Ralph T. Hudgens, survived a...
Republican Candidates for Georgia Insurance Post Face August Runoff
Aug 2 2010 // State Sen. Ralph Hudgens garnered about 21 percent of the vote while Atlanta attorney Maria Sheffield grabbed about 20 percent, setting the stage for an Aug. 20 runoff in the Republican race for Georgia insurance...
Two Accused of Faking $1 Million in Aflac Claims in Georgia
Jul 27 2010 // Two people have been indicted on charges they stole nearly $1 million from insurer Aflac Inc. by filing false insurance claims from 2007 to 2009. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that federal prosecutors are accusing...
Republicans for Georgia Insurance Post Face Runoff; Oxendine Loses
Jul 21 2010 // State Sen. Ralph Hudgens garnered about 21 percent of the vote while Atlanta attorney Maria Sheffield grabbed about 20 percent, setting the stage for an Aug. 20 runoff in the Republican race for Georgia insurance...
Business Moves
Jul 19 2010 // NetComp NetComp Insurance, a newly-formed program manager based in Columbia, S.C., has opened its online program (www.netcompinsurance.com) for small to-mid size workers’ compensation business to all independent...
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...
