Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alliant Americas Taps Young to Continue Southeast Growth
Jan 27 2017 // Ted Young has joined Alliant as senior vice president within the company’s Alliant Americas middle market division. The Georgia-based Young will facilitate Alliant’s continued expansion throughout the Southeast...
Florida-Based American Integrity Insurance Group Adds Brown as CFO
Jan 27 2017 // American Integrity has selected Cory Brown as its chief financial officer. He will lead the company’s accounting team and be an integral part of its executive leadership team, based in Tampa, Fla. Brown has nearly...
Mississippi, Georgia Commissioners Call on Industry to Assist Residents Affected by Tornadoes
Jan 26 2017 // Insurance commissioners in Mississippi and Georgia, two of several Southeast states hit over the weekend by devestating tornadoes that damaged thousands of homes and caused millions of dollars in insured losses, are...
Judge Rules Snapchat Immune from Georgia Distracted Driver Crash Claim
Jan 25 2017 // A judge has dismissed claims against Snapchat that blamed the social media company’s “speed filter” for a highway crash. The judge said the Communications Decency Act provides the social media company...
39 Possible Tornadoes Devastate Southeast, Leave 19 Dead
Jan 24 2017 // Chuck Stafford was watching the Atlanta Falcons rout the Green Bay Packers for the NFC title when bad weather suddenly began to pound his mobile home in southern Georgia. Stafford, 74, had just gotten to head to the...
Death Toll Climbs From Weekend Tornadoes Across Southeast
Jan 23 2017 // A weekend of deadly weather in the Southeast killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, authorities said Sunday morning, while residents along the Georgia-Florida line braced for more intense, fast-moving storms...
Jury Awards $15M to Survivor of Georgia Crash That Killed 5
Jan 23 2017 // Nearly two years after a Louisiana truck driver caused a seven-car crash killing five Georgia Southern University nursing students, a jury has awarded a survivor $15 million in a civil suit. The Atlanta...
Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. Opens First Office in Georgia
Jan 19 2017 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has opened a new claims office in Conyers, Ga., according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief executive officer of the third-party administrator. Overseeing the operations in the...
Georgia Estimates $30M in Insured Losses from Early January Storm
Jan 19 2017 // A violent storm that hit southwest Georgia at the start of the year, killing at least one person, is estimated to have caused $30 million in insured losses, according to the state’s insurance office. Insurance...
Normandy Insurance Expands Workers’ Compensation Coverage to Georgia
Jan 10 2017 // Florida-based workers’ compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. has expanded its coverage into Georgia, bringing the total number of states it offers coverage to two. The company also writes coverage in...
Violent Storm in Southwest Georgia Kills 1, Damages 1,000 Homes
Jan 5 2017 // Fire officials say a woman has died after a violent storm struck southwest Georgia. Albany Fire Chief Ron Rowe said Tuesday that more than 1,000 homes were damaged when a storm about a mile wide swept through the area...
Police in Savannah, Georgia Urge Vigilance After Rise of Business Burglaries in 2016
Jan 4 2017 // Police records show business owners in Savannah, Ga., reported a significant increase in burglaries during 2016. Crime reports by Savannah-Chatham County police show 347 commercial burglaries were reported between last...
NFIP Payouts to Matthew Victims Top $162M
Dec 19 2016 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more than $162 million to victims in the five-state area hit by Hurricane Matthew–Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Federal Emergency...
Southeast Watching, Waiting for Rain to Ease Severe Drought
Dec 13 2016 // Recent showers and storms have slightly eased the South’s severe drought, but experts say it wasn’t enough to make up for months of dry conditions before the rain finally fell. Nearly the entire region remains...
Schoerner Joins Southern Insurance Underwriters in Georgia
Dec 13 2016 // Southern Insurance Underwriters, Inc. (SIU) announced that John M. Schoerner has joined the company as the Professional Lines Practice manager and will lead the company expansion of errors & omissions, architects &...
Georgia-Based ConAgra to Finalize $11.2M Settlement Over Tainted Peanut Butter
Dec 12 2016 // Food giant ConAgra faces a court hearing to finalize an $11.2 million settlement – including the largest criminal fine ever in a U.S. food safety case – to resolve federal charges in a salmonella outbreak that sickened...
New Army Cyber Command Headquarters to Open in Georgia
Dec 9 2016 // Military officials at Fort Gordon in east Georgia have broken ground for the future headquarters of the U.S. Army’s cyber operations. Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commanding general of U.S. Army Cyber Command and Second...
Worldwide Facilities Acquires Trinity Underwriting Managers of Georgia
Dec 6 2016 // Worldwide Facilities, a national wholesale insurance brokerage and managing general agency, has acquired Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), an underwriting manager and wholesale insurance broker specializing in...
NFIP Payouts to Matthew Victims Top $162M
Dec 5 2016 // The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more than $162 million to victims in the five-state area hit by Hurricane Matthew—Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Federal Emergency...
Storms Across Southeast to Help Fight Wildfires, But Risk Still Remains
Nov 30 2016 // Storms roaring across the South appeared to be taking aim at some of the largest wildfires burning across the region, which could finally help firefighters in their efforts to subdue the blazes, authorities said...
