Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Governor Seeks Limits on Biotech Lawsuits to Attract Firms
Jan 28 2009 // Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is proposing tort reform legislation intended to protect Georgia-based biotech companies from product liability claims. The proposed legislation would provide that Federal Drug Administration...
Court Finds Georgia Coaches Immune from Suit Over Player’s Death
Jan 26 2009 // Three suburban Atlanta football coaches cannot be sued for alleged violations of the constitutional rights of a 15-year-old who died after a preseason practice in the summer of 2006, a federal appeals court ruled last...
GEICO Lowers Georgia Auto Rates
Jan 23 2009 // GEICO reports that it is reducing auto insurance rates in Georgia by 2.3 percent on average. The rating plan is already in effect for new policies and will be effective Feb. 8 for renewal policies. GEICO is currently the...
Georgia Collected $22 Million in Claims Disputes in 2008
Jan 23 2009 // Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said his office helped thousands of Georgia consumers settle disputes with their insurance companies in 2008, returning $22 million in insurance claims to policyholders “Many...
Kellogg Recalls 16 Products Due to Salmonella Risk
Jan 20 2009 // Kellogg Co. has recalled 16 products containing peanut butter due to possible salmonella contamination, adding new urgency to the nationwide outbreak as federal officials confirmed contamination at a Georgia facility that...
How Georgia CEO Thompson Turned the Worst into the Best
Jan 11 2009 // One Employee’s Embezzlement Brought Others at Thomco Together and Taught This CEO About Leadership A little more than 10 years ago, Greg Thompson, founder and CEO of the Georgia-based insurance services firm Thomco...
States Rate Poorly on Consumer Insurance Information on Web
Jan 11 2009 // A national consumer group says state insurance departments vary in the quality of the information they provide consumers online, with differences in the usefulness of information such as the rates and practices of...
Georgia: No Single Formula for Insurers Handling Diminished Value Claims
Dec 9 2008 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has issued a directive informing automobile insurance companies in Georgia about the proper handling of diminished value claims. Oxendine ordered all auto insurance companies...
Georgia to Pay $1 Million to Settle Hospital Death Claim
Dec 2 2008 // Georgia will pay a million-dollar settlement over the death of 59-year-old Michael Ernest Webb, a Vietnam veteran from Gwinnett County who was a patient at one of the state-run psychiatric hospitals. The Department of...
Georgia Offers Reward for Leads in Church Arson
Nov 26 2008 // The state of Georgia is offering a $10,000 reward for information that will lead to an arrest and conviction in an arson case in Clarkston where a baptist church was heavily damaged last Sunday night. The blaze gutted the...
Safeco, Montgomery Insurance Unveil Southeast Regional Operations
Nov 25 2008 // The effects on the Southeast of Liberty Mutual’s acquisition of Safeco Insurance became clearer as the insurer announced its regional line-up of companies and personnel. Montgomery Insurance and Safeco are part of...
Arthur J. Gallagher Buys Georgia’s Continental Special Risks
Nov 25 2008 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s subsidiary, Risk Placement Services, Inc., reported that it has acquired Continental Special Risks, Inc., in Roswell, Georgia. Terms of the transaction were not...
Shots Fired at Georgia Insurance Company’s Building
Nov 14 2008 // A company spokeswoman says no one was injured when shots were fired into the 10th and 11th floors of health and disability insurer Aflac’s tower in Columbus, Georgia. Laura Kane said two shots, coming from the east...
Atlanta Business Magazine Ranks Ebix in Top 10
Oct 29 2008 // Atlanta Business Magazine ranked Ebix Inc., among the Top Ten Growing Companies in Atlanta during a recent ceremony at the Atlanta Historical Center. Ebix, an international supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to...
Update: Georgia Insurer, Association Resolve Proxy Dispute
Oct 22 2008 // Atlanta-based Builders Insurance Group and the Home Builders Association of Georgia agreed to resolve and conclude HBAG’s proxy contest and other outstanding issues between the parties. Earlier this year when...
Southern Drought Creeping Northward to West Virginia
Oct 20 2008 // Extreme drought conditions, the second-worst possible, have now spread into Kentucky, and severe conditions have returned to West Virginia and southwest Virginia, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. “The last...
Declarations
Oct 20 2008 // Consumer Beware “So often these entities will pop back up with a new name and take advantage of a new group of consumers. This is why we urge consumers to contact us before purchasing coverage to be sure the entity...
Alabama-based ProAssurance Expands Legal Professional Liability Business
Oct 16 2008 // ProAssurance Corp., headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is expanding its legal professional liability business by purchasing the Georgia Lawyers Insurance Co. ProAssurance is also establishing new relationships with...
Former Georgia Insurance Exec, Regents Chairman Files for Bankruptcy
Oct 15 2008 // A millionaire philanthropist from Augusta, Ga. who once led the University System Board of Regents filed for bankruptcy. Tim Shelnut Sr. filed in June for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. He listed $9.18 million in assets and $6.49...
Georgia Drought Persists Despite Rains from Hurricanes
Oct 14 2008 // The banks of Georgia’s Lake Lanier look about the same as last year: Closed boat ramps, parched soil and lonely islands peeking above the surface that should be covered by a dozen feet of water. Epic drought forced...
