Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Atlanta Fire Department Faces Insurance Rating Amid Budget Cuts
Mar 9 2009 // The insurance industry is engaging in an on-site evaluation of Atlanta’s fire protection system for the first time in three decades, a process that could add millions of dollars to premiums. It is too early to tell...
Estimate of Damage From Georgia Tornadoes Upped to $35 Million
Feb 25 2009 // The damage estimate from last week’s tornadoes is now more than $35 million based on new observations in southwest Georgia by the state insurance commissioner. Commissioner John Oxendine said after a tour that at...
Atlanta Fire Department Faces Insurance Rating Amid Budget Cuts
Feb 23 2009 // The insurance industry is engaging in an on-site evaluation of Atlanta’s fire protection system for the first time in three decades, a process that could add millions of dollars to premiums. It is too early to tell...
Ex-Georgia Pastor, Son Face Arson, Insurance Fraud Charges
Feb 13 2009 // A former Barrow County pastor and his son have been charged with arson for setting fire to a church three years ago. Barrow County sheriff’s deputies arrested 49-year-old Quincy Arnold of Lawrenceville Tuesday....
Georgia Senate Panel Advances Food Safety Measure
Feb 13 2009 // A sweeping new food safety measure proposed in the wake of the salmonella outbreak easily passed its first key legislative hurdle this week as Georgia lawmakers sought to reassure antsy residents. The Senate Agriculture...
Georgia Senate Panel Considers Changes to Food Safety Rules
Feb 11 2009 // State lawmakers are considering new food safety rules in Georgia, where a peanut plant has been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people nationwide. The Senate Agriculture Committee is to...
Wills/HRH Executive McCurry Joins Georgia’s Seacrest Partners
Feb 3 2009 // Seacrest Partners, Inc., a Savannah-based insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, reported that J. Cliff McCurry has joined the firm as vice chairman. McCurry will oversee business development activities...
Salmonella Outbreak Exposes Gaps in Peanut Product Inspection Process
Jan 30 2009 // Food regulators didn’t consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation’s top peanut-producing state...
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...
