Latest Georgia Headlines
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Worley Claims Services Acquires Audit Services Incorporated of Georgia
Feb 6 2018 // Worley Claims Services, LLC, a provider of claims services in North America, has acquired Audit Services Incorporated (ASI), a claim estimate writing and review supplier for the property and auto insurance markets based in...
Georgia Climatologist Says 2017 Was State’s Warmest Year Ever
Feb 5 2018 // A new report shows that 2017 was the warmest year on record for Georgia. The annual average statewide temperature for 2017 was tied with 2016 for the warmest on record, with 65.8 degrees (18.8 Celsius) as the average mean...
Explosion at Pecan Storage Silo in Georgia Damages Nearby Businesses
Feb 2 2018 // A silo used to store pecan hulls exploded Wednesday in rural south Georgia, shattering windows in businesses blocks away. Workers reported buildings shook just before 1 p.m. when the silo exploded outside the offices of...
1 Child Killed, 5 Injured in Georgia School Bus Crash
Feb 1 2018 // Authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a school bus she was riding in overturned in Georgia. Five other people were injured in the crash Monday afternoon. Warner Robins Assistant Police Chief John Wagner tells...
Georgia Climatologist Says 2017 Was State’s Warmest Year Ever
Jan 30 2018 // A new report shows that 2017 was the warmest year on record for Georgia. The annual average statewide temperature for 2017 was tied with 2016 for the warmest on record with 65.8 degrees (18.8 Celsius) as the average mean...
Mother of “The Walking Dead” Stuntman Killed on Georgia Set Files Wrongful Death Suit
Jan 29 2018 // The mother of a stuntman who fell to his death on the set of “The Walking Dead” in Georgia has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets...
InsuranceHub Acquires Insley Insurance of Georgia
Jan 24 2018 // InsuranceHub, a technology-driven insurance agency with more than 15,000 clients nationwide, has acquired Insley Insurance of Dacula, Ga. The acquisition became official in January 2018. Insley Insurance was founded by...
Regions Insurance Taps Breedlove to Lead Property & Casualty Operations from Georgia
Jan 23 2018 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has named Mike Breedlove executive vice president of Property & Casualty Operations. Breedlove will be responsible for leading the company’s property &...
The MEMIC Group Promotes Cavallaro to Production Underwriter Based in Georgia
Jan 19 2018 // To support growth within the Georgia market, workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has announced the promotion of Ben Cavallaro to the position of production underwriter. A native of Portland, Maine, and...
Image System Promises to Identify Unsafe Traffic Intersections Before Accidents Happen
Jan 19 2018 // Could a traffic agency identify a potentially dangerous road intersection without first witnessing a collision? Three Kennesaw State University researchers and the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) are attempting...
JenCap Holdings to Acquire Genesee General of Georgia
Jan 18 2018 // JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH), a specialty insurance business, has agreed to acquire privately-held Genesee General, a managing general agency, program administrator and wholesale insurance broker based in Alpharetta, Ga. The...
Freezing Rain Causes 30 Cars to Crash on Georgia Interstate
Jan 10 2018 // A crash involving more than 30 cars closed the northbound lanes of an interstate in north Georgia as light freezing rain fell across wide swaths of Georgia and Alabama on Monday. No serious injuries were reported in the...
Film Company Fined For Death of ‘The Walking Dead’ Stuntman in Georgia
Jan 8 2018 // A film company faces a citation and fine after a stuntman for “The Walking Dead” fell to his death last year during filming on the hit show’s Georgia set, federal authorities said Friday. John Bernecker,...
Epic Winter Storm Brings Car Wrecks, Broken Water Mains, Power Outages to Southeast
Jan 5 2018 // A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in nearly three decades. The same system...
400 Delta Flights Scrapped After Atlanta Airport Outage Chaos
Dec 18 2017 // Delta Air Lines Inc. and other carriers worked to get thousands of stranded passengers onto planes after a major electrical disruption in Atlanta crippled service at the world’s busiest hub, extending flight...
Former Hartford Underwriter Reese Joins Pioneer Underwriters’ Georgia Team
Dec 13 2017 // Pioneer Underwriters has appointed Kellie Reese as an underwriter in its recently launched E&S Property operation. She will report to Dave Phillips, based in Alpharetta, Ga. Reese has almost 30 years of experience as a...
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Sexual Orientation Job Bias Case
Dec 12 2017 // The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a chance to decide whether the main federal job-bias law bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The nation’s highest court on Monday rejected an appeal by Jameka...
Heavy Snow Causes Problems Across the Southeast
Dec 11 2017 // An unusually heavy December snowfall across much of the Deep South tapered off Saturday, but icy road conditions left problems and thousands remained without electricity throughout the region. Forecasters warned that...
5-Year-Old Killed, 21 Kids Injured in Georgia School Bus Crash
Dec 8 2017 // A school bus driver on her early pick-up route lost control on a dirt road and smashed into a tree Tuesday, killing a 5-year-old girl and sending 21 other children to hospitals. The crash happened on a foggy morning just...
Georgia To Expand Cybersecurity Training Center
Dec 6 2017 // The next phase of a multimillion-dollar cybersecurity training center taking shape in downtown Augusta is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal recently announced an additional $35 million...
