Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia to Allow Failed Insurers’ Clients to Buy Into Insolvency Pool
Jun 9 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a bill allowing employers whose previous workers compensation carrier goes out of business to pay into the insolvency pool to cover injured workers’ claims. The law has...
Ratings Recap: Builders Group, FMH Group, MAG Mutual, Nationwide (Fla.)
Jun 7 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a-” of Builders Insurance Group and its...
Georgia Bans Texting While Driving; Targets Teens
Jun 7 2010 // Put down the cell phone and step away from the car. Georgia drivers soon will be banned from texting, checking e-mail or using the Internet behind the wheel and teens will be prohibited from using their cell phones at all...
Adults in Pickup Trucks Must Now Wear Seat Belts in Georgia
Jun 4 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is preparing to sign legislation requiring adults riding in pickup trucks to wear seat belts. Perdue was scheduled to go to Dalton, Ga., to sign the measure Thursday afternoon. The legislation had...
Timing of Georgia Insurance Chief’s Ethics Probe Stirs Controversy
Jun 3 2010 // An ethics activist is defending the State Ethics Commission’s decision to schedule a hearing involving GOP gubernatorial candidate and state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine less than a month before the crowded...
Georgia’s Insurance Chief Oxendine Faces Ethics Hearing Before Primary
Jun 1 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine is scheduled to go before the state ethics commission less than a month before a crowded primary contest in which he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Stefan...
3 Arrested for Georgia Insurance Agent’s Death in Louisiana
May 6 2010 // Three people have been arrested in the death of a Georgia insurance agent who was killed during an early morning holdup at a Waffle House restaurant in Baton Rouge, La. Sgt. Don Kelly says 21-year-old Antonius Jones of...
Georgia Close to Opening State Insolvency Pool for Workers’ Claims
May 3 2010 // Georgia lawmakers have voted to allow employers whose injured employees lost medical benefits when a major workers compensation carrier went under to buy into the state insolvency fund. Sponsored by Rep. Carl Rogers,...
Georgia Mennonite Community May Be Able to Self-Insure
Apr 23 2010 // A small community of Mennonites in south Georgia is close to winning the right to insure itself rather than using auto plans required by the state. A bill allowing the 100-member community to self-insure rather than buy...
Georgia Firms Could Buy Into Insolvency Pool for Workers’ Claims
Apr 22 2010 // Georgia lawmakers have voted to allow employers whose injured employees lost medical benefits when a major workers compensation carrier went under to buy into the state insolvency fund. Sponsored by Rep. Carl Rogers,...
Georgia Joins Lawsuit Against Healthcare Overhaul
Apr 14 2010 // Georgia is joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, Florida’s attorney general said Tuesday. Bill McCollum, who is seeking...
Georgia Opts Out of Temporary Health Insurance High Risk Pool
Apr 13 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that he will not participate in the first phase of recently enacted federal health care legislation that calls for the implementation of a temporary high risk insurance...
People
Apr 5 2010 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 18 funded and 10 unfunded consumer liaison representatives for 2010. Seven of the funded consumer representatives participated in the program in...
Georgia Medical Awards Cap Ruled Unconstitutional
Apr 5 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has struck down a cap on medical malpractice awards imposed in 2005 as part of a package of legislative tort reforms. The state’s high court said the law limiting noneconomic damages in...
FEMA Charges Georgia Man with Multiple False Claims
Mar 29 2010 // Desima James would seem to be the unluckiest man in America. In 2005 and 2006 alone, he suffered through three devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes, a tornado in Indiana and flooding in New Hampshire. Or so he told the...
Georgia Senate Revives Pickup Truck Seat Belt Bill
Mar 26 2010 // The Georgia Senate this week revived and approved a proposal that would force pickup truck drivers to wear their seat belts. The bill passed with a vote of 45-2. Bill sponsor Sen. Don Thomas, a physician and Republican...
Alabama Counties Face Binge Drinking Problem
Mar 23 2010 // Jay Patel stands behind the counter at his Discount Liquors store here on Lake Weiss, waiting as a customer tries to decide just how much Jack Daniels he can afford. “Not that one,” the young man says as Patel...
Georgia ER Liability Shield Upheld
Mar 22 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state’s 2005 tort reform legislation that limits the liability of emergency room medical care providers. The 4-3 ruling turned aside complaints that the law is...
Georgia Supreme Court Rules Medical Awards Cap Unconstitutional
Mar 22 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has struck a cap on medical malpractice awards imposed in 2005 as part of a package of legislative tort reforms. The state’s high court said the law limiting noneconomic damages in medical...
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Emergency Room Tort Reform Law
Mar 15 2010 // The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the state’s 2005 tort reform legislation that limits the liability of emergency room medical care providers. The 4-3 ruling turned aside complaints that the law is...
