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#1 Ga. Funeral Home Sent Parents Their Deceased Son’s Brain by Mistake, Lawsuit Says
Jul 28 2025 // Two funeral homes allegedly gave grieving parents their deceased son’s brain in a box, which began to smell, leaked into their car and got on the father’s hands when he moved it, according to an updated lawsuit...
#2 Grieving Families Say Georgia Island Dock Collapse Tragedy Was Preventable
Oct 24 2024 // JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Regina Brinson heard a crack before the metal walkway gave way beneath her feet, plunging her into the water beneath the state-operated ferry dock on Georgia’s Sapelo Island. As strong...
#3 Will Georgia Gov. Kemp’s Move to Curb Lawsuits Keep Insurance Rates From Rising?
Feb 3 2025 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday reiterated his simple pitch for lawsuit limits: They’ll halt rising insurance costs. The reality, though, is more complicated. Changes could reduce liability insurance costs for...
#4 Allstate to Pay About $500K on Georgia Claim Highlighted in Hearing, Senator Says
Aug 6 2025 // Three months after a U.S. senator chastized Allstate for its response to a Georgia woman’s storm claim, Allstate has paid more than 10 times its initial payout on the claim, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said...
#5 Georgia Commercial Lender Owner Charged With $140M Ponzi Scheme
Jul 11 2025 // NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140 million, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed Thursday. The civil lawsuit by the U.S....
#6 A Deep Dive: Recommendations on Georgia’s Rising Premiums, Loss Ratios
Jun 9 2025 // Homeowners’ insurance premiums in Georgia cost less than in other states. Neither affordability nor availability have been major concerns in a state with hundreds of licensed insurers. But things changed in 2023-2024...
#7 Georgia Lawmakers Push to Ban Automated Speeding-Ticket Cameras
Mar 6 2025 // (AP) — Outside Beacon Hill Middle School in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, like along hundreds of roadsides across Georgia, the unblinking eye of a camera tickets drivers who speed through a school zone. Supporters say...
#8 Georgia Tort Reform Law Means New Hurdles for Injured People and Attorneys
May 23 2025 // On April 21, 2025, Georgia lawmakers enacted sweeping tort reform through Senate Bills 68 and 69, signaling a significant recalibration of the state’s civil litigation framework. While proponents claim these reforms...
#9 At Least 7 Dead After Ferry Dock Gangway Collapsed on Georgia Island
Oct 21 2024 // SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities said at least seven people were killed Saturday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the...
#10 Georgia Lawmakers Gearing Up for New Tort Reform Push
Jan 10 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — After years of stalled efforts to limit civil lawsuits, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Republican lawmakers are doubling down with a new push. Supporters, most prominently business groups, call the state a...
#11 Insurance Groups Celebrate Signing of Georgia Tort Reform Laws
Apr 24 2025 // Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s political organization took to social media to tout his success in limiting lawsuits in a way Georgians could understand. “Thank you” its ad proclaimed, with the words blocked...
#12 Baptist College in Georgia Places President on Leave as it Probes Sex Abuse Claims
Jun 10 2025 // A Baptist college in northeast Georgia has placed its president on leave while it investigates whether he ignored claims that a former administrator was abusing students. Trustees at Truett McConnell University in...
#13 Battery Firm Pulls Plug on $2.6 Billion Plant in Georgia
Feb 11 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — A clean energy company is abandoning a plan to build a giant electric battery factory in Atlanta’s suburbs after it shifted to buy a solar panel plant in Texas. Freyr Battery told officials in Newnan...
#14 With Unrevealed Previous Injury, Later Claim Cannot be Denied, Georgia Court Says
Mar 4 2025 // Defending workers’ compensation claims from employees who have not disclosed previous injuries may have just become a little more complicated for employers and insurance carriers in Georgia. The Georgia Court of...
#15 Georgia Lawmakers Approve Major Tort Reform, Overhaul of Legal System
Mar 24 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s measure to limit lawsuits in Georgia received House approval Thursday, poising the state’s litigation landscape for a controversial overhaul after a lengthy...
#16 Woman Sues Georgia Fertility Clinic, Saying She Gave Birth to Another Woman’s Baby
Feb 21 2025 // SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Krystena Murray became pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization two years ago, and said she was unaware until she gave birth that the fertility clinic had made a fateful mistake. In December...
#17 Two Georgia Men Denied Bond After Charged With Large Cache of Homemade Bombs
Jul 30 2025 // Two Georgia men, denied bond, are in jail awaiting court action after they were charged with possessing a large amount of homemade explosive devices. The Georgia Office of Insurance Commissioner and State Fire...
#18 Georgia Parents and Teen Indicted in Fatal Drunk Driving Crash
Dec 6 2024 // DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia couple has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after authorities say they let their daughter and her friends drink alcohol before they got in a fatal car crash that left one of them...
#19 Jury Awards $2.25M to Georgia Couple in Suit Over Autopsy Images of Baby
Jun 23 2025 // A jury has awarded a Georgia couple $2.25 million in their lawsuit accusing a pathologist of posting graphic videos of an autopsy of their decapitated baby. A Fulton County jury returned the verdict against Dr. Jackson...
#20 Shelter Order Lifted for 90,000 Georgia Residents After Chemical Plant Fire
Oct 2 2024 // Authorities on Monday night ended a shelter-in-place order for more than 90,000 people east of Atlanta following a weekend chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark smoke into the Georgia sky and led to...
