Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Six Years After Deadly Police Chase, Georgia High Court Limits Insurer’s Obligation
Feb 17 2022 // The headlines in 2016 provoked an outcry across Georgia: A man stole a car near the Atlanta airport, fled from police in a high-speed chase, then crashed into another vehicle, killing a woman and her two grandchildren. Six...
Georgia Theft Ring Taking Entire Moving Vans and Their Belongings
Feb 14 2022 // Georgia authorities are investigating what may be an Atlanta-based theft ring that has stolen more than two dozen moving trucks, swiping families’ entire belongings in the process. Some of the victims were en route...
Three Vie for Georgia Insurance Post: Trial Attorney, Insurance Agent, Former Cop
Feb 10 2022 // Although the election is still months away, the race for Georgia insurance commissioner already is a campaign of firsts — and some strong rhetoric aimed at insurance companies and regulators. Janice Laws Robinson, an...
Alabama Woman Wanted in Georgia Insurance Fraud Case
Feb 7 2022 // A Georgia judge has issued an arrest warrant for an Alabama woman who may have forged documents to receive more than three months of insurance benefits after a 2019 car crash. Tessa Blakely, 40, of Fort Mitchell, Alabama,...
Reuters Special Report: J&J’s Secret Plan to Limit Payouts to Cancer Claimants
Feb 7 2022 // Johnson & Johnson created a plan last year to limit the financial bleeding from billions of dollars in jury awards to plaintiffs who alleged the company’s Baby Powder and other talc products caused deadly...
Business Moves
Feb 7 2022 // National Marsh McLennan, Affinity Agency Association Member Benefits Advisors, a national affinity-based membership and marketing insurance agency, has agreed to acquire the associations business of Mercer, a business of...
Georgia Lawmakers Moving to Extend 2nd-Injury Fund for Another 2 Years
Feb 4 2022 // Like their counterparts in several other states, Georgia lawmakers have been trying to wind down the state’s second-injury fund, the workers’ compensation program designed to cover benefits for workers with...
Oakbridge Acquires Another Georgia Agency
Feb 3 2022 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency, a large regional independent agency, announced its further expansion into Georgia with the acquisition of Jenkins, Skipworth & Associates in Alpharetta. JSA, an independent insurance agency...
Georgia Committee Chair Wants More Study on PTSD Workers’ Comp Bill
Jan 27 2022 // Supporters spoke passionately Wednesday about the need for workers’ compensation insurance to cover mental health treatment for first responders, but the chair of a Georgia House committee decided to send the bill to...
OakBridge Continues Regional Expansion with McNeal Agency in Georgia
Jan 26 2022 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency, a large regional agency in the Southeast, announced that it has acquired McNeal Sports & Wilson Risk Advisers, an independent agency in Waycross, Georgia. Oakbridge CEO Robbie Smith said the...
Georgia Commission Continues to Pursue Ethics Charge Against Oxendine
Jan 25 2022 // The Georgia Ethics Commission will continue to pursue campaign-fund allegations against a former state insurance commissioner, despite a judge’s October ruling that the agency had waited too long. In a case that has...
Georgia Governor Wants to Pay off $150 Million State Workers’ Comp Backlog
Jan 24 2022 // Thanks to an unexpectedly large state budget surplus for 2021, Georgia’s governor wants to pay off a $150 million backlog of workers’ compensation benefits due to state employees. Gov. Brian Kemp’s budget...
Relation Acquires Georgia-based Allen, a Trucking Insurance Specialist
Jan 19 2022 // California-based Relation Insurance Services has reached across the country to acquire trucking industry specialist Allen Insurance Group, headquartered in Georgia. Based in Fort Valley, Georgia, Allen offers commercial...
People Moves: Southern Adds Garage Underwriter in Georgia
Jan 18 2022 // Southern Insurance Underwriters, a managing general agency based in Atlanta, has named Whitney Griffith new underwriter for garage insurance. Griffith, who will be in SIU’s Alpharetta, Georgia, office, has more than...
Two Wanted in Georgia After Creating Fake Insurance Company
Jan 13 2022 // Two women have been charged with insurance fraud in North Carolina after car crashes, and three men and a woman in Georgia are wanted for other types of fraud, including the creation of a fake insurance company. The...
In About-Face, Georgia Joins $26 Billion Opioid Settlement
Jan 10 2022 // The state of Georgia has decided to join a proposed $26 billion nationwide settlement resolving lawsuits alleging that three large drug distributors and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson fueled the deadly U.S. opioid...
Winter Storms Strike Kentucky, Georgia, Carolina, DC
Jan 3 2022 // Storms over the New Year’s Day weekend knocked out power, caused property damage, triggered flash flooding and snow and closed schools and government offices. In Kentucky, less than three weeks after tornadoes...
Georgia Man Wanted for Deliberately Damaging Roof During Inspection
Dec 21 2021 // Solicitation by roofers may be a problem in many states, but in Georgia, authorities are now searching for a man who offered to inspect a home’s roof after a storm then deliberately damaged more than 200...
Confie Acquires Velox Insurance to Expand in Georgia Market
Dec 14 2021 // Confie, a U.S. independent personal lines distributor, will acquire Velox Insurance as an affiliate to its nonstandard national brand, Freeway Insurance. The acquisition includes all 40 locations in Georgia, tripling...
OSHA Fines Georgia Grading Contractor $20,480 After Worker’s Death
Nov 30 2021 // If federal workplace safety requirements had been followed, a 24-year-old Georgia worker would not have been killed in a front-end loader accident in May, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. OSHA...
