Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Credit Scoring Bill Passes Georgia Senate
Apr 21 2003 // The Georgia Senate unanimously approved legislation allowing insurers to use credit-based insurance scores in underwriting and rating homeowners and auto insurance coverage, according to the American Insurance Association...
Amendment May Slow Down Ga. Vehicle Database Bill
Apr 18 2003 // Insurers and legislators who have collaborated on a bill designed to fine-tune Georgia’s motor vehicle insurance database are hoping that an unrelated amendment will not spoil chances of the bill’s eventual...
NAII Says Issues Linger in Georgia as Legislature Winds Down
Apr 8 2003 // As the budget-dominated first year of a two-year Georgia legislative session winds down, a handful of insurance-related bills still remain to be settled, according to the National Association of Independent Insurers...
Firm Told to Stop Selling Med Mal Liability in Ga.
Apr 4 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine ordered First Actual American Insurance Company to stop marketing medical malpractice liability in his state. Oxendine said the company is not licensed or authorized to sell...
AlphaStar to Sell Subs to Georgia’s AIM
Mar 27 2003 // Bermuda-based AlphaStar Insurance Group Limited reported it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell three subsidiaries to an affiliate of American Insurance Managers Inc. (AIM) of Atlanta, Ga. The subsidiaries...
Georgia’s Perdue Fires Insurance Consumer Advocate
Mar 17 2003 // Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s firing of the state’s insurance consumer advocate is a step in the right direction toward streamlining the insurance process and reestablishing the insurance commissioner’s...
Kronin Joins Georgia State’s RMI Department
Mar 14 2003 // The Department of Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business announced the appointment of Kevin T. Cronin, J.D., as a Professor of Legal Studies. Recognized for his...
Oxendine Expresses Concerns About Ga. Insurance Market
Feb 27 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine recently spoke out on the need for judicial reform as a way to encourage insurers to compete for business in the state. According to the National Association of Independent...
Scoring Bill Passes Georgia House Subcommittee
Feb 25 2003 // A House bill limiting insurers from using credit-based insurance scores as the sole criterion in rating and underwriting recently passed the Georgia House Insurance Subcommittee, according to the National Association of...
Georgia Senate Introduces Civil Justice Reform Bill
Feb 13 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) said that over 20 Georgia senators are sponsoring a bipartisan civil justice reform act designed to address the high cost of health care and patient...
Oxendine Helps Georgians Retrieve $18.7 Million in Claims
Jan 15 2003 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced that the Consumer Services Division of the Georgia Department of Insurance helped tens of thousands of Georgia consumers settle insurance company disputes in 2002,...
Alliance to Coordinate Input on Mold Coverage in Ga.
Jan 10 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers said Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has asked the group to coordinate an insurance industry effort to develop language that will be used to spell out coverage for mold in...
Atlanta Insurance Lawyer Appointed to Ga. Equal Opportunity Board
Nov 8 2002 // Attorney Lewis E. Hassett, chair of the Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution Group at Atlanta-based Morris Manning & Martin LLP, was appointed by Georgia Governor Roy Barnes to the Board of Commissioners of...
Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Selects Direcway Satellite System
Oct 31 2002 // Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (GFB), based in Atlanta, will deploy Hughes Network Sytems’ (HNS) DIRECWAY(R) satellite solution for network services. Signal Mountain will be the service provider. With...
National Insurance Task Force to Offer Training in Ga.
Oct 4 2002 // The NeighborWorks® National Insurance Task Force announced it is offering the Certified Community Insurance Counselor Training Program on October 25, 2002, in Decatur, Ga. There is no charge for the training program. The...
Insurity Renews Licensing Agreement With Georgia Casualty
Aug 29 2002 // Insurity(SM), a ChoicePoint® company, has renewed a licensing agreement with Georgia Casualty and Surety Company for policy administration products and services. Under the agreement, Insurity will convert Georgia...
Brown & Brown Makes Asset Acquisition of Cooper, Brown & Currie
Jul 15 2002 // Jim W. Henderson, Executive Vice President of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Frank A. Brown, Jr., President of Cooper, Brown & Currie, Inc., of Rome, Georgia, announced the asset acquisition of Cooper, Brown &...
Ga. Agents Convicted of Fraud Have Licenses Revoked
Jun 25 2002 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has revoked the licenses of two Savannah insurance agents convicted of fraud. William Knight III and Varnedoe Hancock were indicted on fraud charges after Hancock allegedly sold...
GA Commish in Med-Mal Standoff With St. Paul
Jun 25 2001 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has taken issue with the St. Paul Companies over their intentions to non-renew some of the medical malpractice policies in the state. Oxendine slapped the Minnesota-based...
ING Investigated by Georgia For Racial Pricing
Dec 15 2000 // Georgia Insurance regulators are heading up a multistate investigation of ING subsidiary Life Insurance Co. of Georgia, after finding evidence the company had systematically charged higher, race-based premiums to...
