Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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Nov 19 2006 // Newcomer Sink, veteran Oxendine elected key insurance players A veteran Republican Georgian commissioner and a Democratic novice Florida financial chief promise to play key roles in insurance issues in the Southeast in the...
News Currents
Nov 19 2006 // Judicial races in Southeast, nation prove contentious, costly Business groups spend heavily but come up short in a number of judicial contests The midterm 2006 judicial elections saw judicial campaign contribution and...
Reelection the Order of the Day in Georgia for Oxendine
Nov 9 2006 // In the end, Republican incumbent John Oxendine took home the prize in the race for Georgia Insurance Commissioner and will serve a fourth consecutive four-year term. By close of business Wednesday, with 98 percent of the...
Georgia Issues Annuity Regulations
Nov 7 2006 // The Georgia insurance commission has adoped new regulations that promise to protect consumers who buy annuity products. Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said an insurer or agent must have reasonable grounds for...
Sparks Fly in Ga. Supreme Court Race
Nov 7 2006 // By the time the half-hour debate between the candidates for Georgia’s Supreme Court jolted to an end, there were no handshakes, not even the briefest smile between Justice Carol Hunstein and challenger Mike...
Blue Cross of Georgia Ordered to Implement Corrective Action
Oct 26 2006 // By allegedly refusing to offer quotes for group health coverage to certain small business, as required under the Georgia insurance code and using sales agents that were not properly appointed, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of...
Ga. race for commissioner
Oct 23 2006 // Exec ‘gooses’ N.C. agents Advice from Zurich’s Thomas Fla. governor’s race Hurricane fund proposed
Dear Ga. Parents: unsafe teen drivers nabbed
Oct 23 2006 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has launched a program to send letters to the parents of teen drivers who receive traffic citations or warnings from state troopers. The letters are to include the date and reason the teenager was...
Georgia commissioner candidates clash over money, incumbents’ record
Oct 23 2006 // The midterm race for Georgia Insurance Commissioner pits a veteran politician against an attorney in his first foray into politics. Each candidate has an ‘x’ in his three-syllabled surname – but...
Georgia to Send Teens’ Traffic Violation Notices to Parents
Oct 11 2006 // Letters would be sent to the parents of teen drivers who receive traffic citations or warnings from Georgia troopers under a new program Gov. Sonny Perdue announced. The letters would include the date and reason the...
Georgia Slashes Unemployment Insurance Tax
Oct 10 2006 // Georgia is implementing a $100 million unemployment insurance tax cut that will affect most of the state’s 200,000 employers, state labor officials said. The tax cut will begin in January, according to state Labor...
Fla., Ga. Regulators Warn Consumers of Multi-state Scam
Sep 28 2006 // A bogus letter telling recipients they have won a contest with a chance to win big money is at the center of fraudulent activity being perpetrated in multiple states. The letter is on forged MAG Mutual Insurance Co....
Georgia threatens Safeway
Sep 25 2006 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has fined Safeway Insurance Co. of Georgia $500,000 and given the insurer an ultimatum. Oxendine told the insurer it must: radically adjust its claims practices over the next...
Ga. Firefighters Accused of Arson
Sep 10 2006 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine said arrest warrants have been issued for four volunteer firefighters and three junior firefighters in Rabun County for allegedly setting a fire in...
Georgia Commissioner Threatens to Eject Safeway Insurance
Sep 7 2006 // An historic ejection of an insurance company from Georgia is at hand if the insurer does not comply with state-mandated rules and radically adjust its claims practices over the next two years. Georgia Insurance...
Montgomery Insurance Rolls Out Streamlined Commercial Pricing
Sep 1 2006 // Appointed agents of Montgomery Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, can now get faster and more precise quotes with the implementation this month of the Commercial IQ SmartRisk underwriting and pricing system for...
Ga. Apartment Complex Pays $2.25M In Drowning of Toddler
Aug 24 2006 // The owners of a DeKalb County, Georgia apartment complex have reached at $2.25 million settlement with the family of a 2-year-old boy who died in a 2003 drowning in the complex pool. Jonathan Flores was three days shy of...
Georgia’s Britt/Paulk Says It’s Looking to Acquire Brokers
Aug 22 2006 // Britt / Paulk Insurance Agency, Inc., a privately held program administrator in Carrollton, Georgia, , has announced plans for growth through acquisition. Britt / Paulk has engaged LMC Capital LLC, an insurance investment...
WellPoint Names New Charitable Foundation President
Aug 21 2006 // Indianapolis-based WellPoint, Inc. recently announced that Caroline “Caz” Matthews, currently president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, has been named president of the WellPoint Foundation. She will lead...
Insurer to Refund $1M to Ga. Policyholders
Aug 18 2006 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced he has ordered a Kansas insurance company to return $1,016,518 in overcharges to 159 Georgia customers. Oxendine said Universal Underwriters Insurance Company will...
