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#1 Insurers Fighting $345M Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording at Issue
Sep 22 2025 // In one of the grimmest, longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent...
#2 Georgia Man Indicted After Fishing Tournament Boat Crash That Killed 3 in Alabama
Oct 7 2025 // A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others. Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted...
#3 Georgia Man Charged Again in Selling Fake Workers’ Comp Insurance Certificates
Sep 17 2025 // A Georgia man has been arrested for at least the second time in four years, charged with posing as an insurance agent and selling fake workers’ compensation policies. Fernando Jose Cuellar Membreno, 54, was arrested...
#4 Georgia Church Leaders Charged With Buying Homes With False Documents
Sep 15 2025 // Leaders of a Georgia-based church with congregations in five states have been charged by federal prosecutors with swindling millions of dollars in veterans benefits from parishioners serving in the military. An indictment...
#5 Georgia Man Indicted a Year After Arrest for Posing as Insurance Agent
Oct 6 2025 // More than a year after he was charged, a Georgia businessman known as “Dr. Taxes” has been indicted for posing as an insurance agent and swiping hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation...
#6 Dogs Kill Toddler at Unlicensed Georgia Daycare Center
Oct 10 2025 // A 2-year-old boy in south Georgia was attacked by two Rottweiler dogs and died at an unlicensed daycare center while the owner napped, according to police. Stacy Wheeler Cobb, the 48-year-old owner who held the daycare at...
#7 Georgia High Court Sides with Slave Descendants on Island Zoning Changes
Oct 3 2025 // Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed...
#8 Georgia Judge Won’t Award Attorney Fees to Governments in Rivian Lawsuit
Sep 15 2025 // A judge has rejected an attempt by the state of Georgia and a local development agency to force people who unsuccessfully sued to block an electric vehicle plant to pay the government’s legal fees. State government...
#9 New Chapter: Jensen Named CEO of Georgia-Based Southern Trust Insurance
Oct 1 2025 // Southern Trust Insurance, a 57-year-old boutique property-casualty insurer with headquarters in Macon, Georgia, has appointed Douglas Jensen president and chief executive officer. Jensen, with more than 30 years in...
#10 Georgia Farmers Should Get $531M in Helene Aid But the Deal’s Not Done Yet
Oct 3 2025 // The wait continues for Georgia farmers who need more aid after Hurricane Helene, even as state and federal officials in other states announce agreements. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Georgia Agriculture...
#11 Insurers Fighting $345 Million Georgia School Abuse Award, With Policy Wording Again at Issue
Oct 6 2025 // In one of the longest-running and most-litigated episodes of alleged child sexual abuse at a private school, the key question in a case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals is whether insurers’ recent policies...
