Latest Georgia Headlines
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Former Peanut Exec Gets 28 Years for Georgia Plant Salmonella Outbreak
Sep 23 2015 // A former peanut company executive was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak, the stiffest punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. The outbreak in...
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to 23 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Sep 16 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that Bibb County, Georgia, resident William Emerson Scruggs, 54, pleaded guilty to 23 counts of insurance fraud. Bibb County Superior Court sentenced Scruggs to three...
Immigrants in Georgia Sue Over Driver’s Licenses
Sep 10 2015 // A group of immigrants whose legal residency is disputed sued Georgia’s state government August 31 for refusing to issue them driver’s licenses. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the federal lawsuit...
Georgia Tackles Changing Behavior of Repeat DUI Offenders
Sep 9 2015 // In courtrooms around the country, judges are teaming up with prosecutors, defense attorneys, parole officers and substance abuse counselors to make long-term changes in the behavior of people with multiple arrests for...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
People – Southeast
Sep 7 2015 // Georgia-based INSUREtrust has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team. Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs has 15 years of insurance experience,...
Apartment Building Explosion in Georgia Under Investigation
Sep 2 2015 // Firefighters are investigating a blaze at a Marietta, Ga., apartment complex that was reportedly rattled by an explosion August 31. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that firefighters arrived at the Crestmont...
Authorities on Alert After South Georgia Church Break-Ins
Aug 27 2015 // Law officers are searching for suspects who burglarized two Georgia churches. WTOC-TV reports that the break-ins are believed to have happened August 22 at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Alston and Tabernacle of...
11 Georgia Residents Charged With Staging Car Accidents
Aug 25 2015 // On August 24, investigators from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ Fraud division, with assistance from Bibb County Sherriff David Davis and his deputies, arrested six Macon, Ga., residents on charges of...
3 Georgia Residents Charged With Insurance Fraud
Aug 21 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ office issued a warrant last week for three Treutlen County residents on charges related to insurance fraud. Theresa Dyer, 59, was charged with one count of insurance...
Study: In 1st Year, 2 Florida Laws Reduced Amount of Opioids Prescribed
Aug 19 2015 // Two Florida laws, enacted to fight prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed the first year the laws were in place, a new study...
PIA of Georgia Elects New President
Aug 12 2015 // Dwight Taylor Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Dwight L. Taylor, to serve as president of the nation’s sixth largest affiliate at their annual meeting held in Savannah,...
Prosecutors Want Life Sentence in Georgia Peanut Exec Salmonella Case
Aug 10 2015 // Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a...
Georgia-Based INSUREtrust Adds Josaphs, Dollar to Cyber Team
Aug 7 2015 // INSUREtrust in Atlanta, Ga., has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team. Vince Josaphs Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs’ has 15 years of...
Regions Insurance Acquires Georgia-Based The A.I. Group
Aug 5 2015 // Regions Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Regions Insurance Group, Inc. and an affiliate of Regions Bank, has acquired The A.I. Group, Inc., with offices in Greater Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. The A.I. Group provides...
Olson to Lead the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia as CEO
Jul 31 2015 // Betsy K. Olson was appointed chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia after a unanimous vote of its Board of Directors on July 29, 2015. Olson will take the reins on September 1. “Betsy...
Breckenridge Insurance Services Adds Regional Vice President Patricia Berry and Two Vice President Brokers
Jul 20 2015 // Pictured left to right: Patricia Berry, Chris Holmes, Paul Hamilton Atlanta, GA, July 20, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has added three brokers with...
People – Southeast
Jul 20 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has made a series of senior appointments to its business. Hiram Marrero has been appointed national partner of Willis’s South Region. He will be responsible...
GEICO Expands Ridesharing Coverage to Georgia
Jul 20 2015 // GEICO has continued the expansion of its new auto insurance product for drivers of transportation network companies (TNC) with the addition of Georgia. GEICO offers ridesharing coverage through GEICO Commercial for less...
Georgia City Proposes Overtime Pay Settlement with Firefighters
Jul 17 2015 // Augusta, Ga., commissioners are proposing a settlement with firefighters who have sued the city saying they’re owed overtime pay. The Augusta Chronicle reports commissioners voted to offer $58,455 to the group of...
