Latest Georgia Headlines
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New Study Aims to Help Georgia Motorists Avoid Deer Collisions
Oct 29 2015 // University of Georgia researchers have a new study out that could tell motorists the most likely times for collisions with deer in different parts of the state. The research assessed available deer breeding information...
Georgia Man on Motorized Wheelchair Cited for DUI
Oct 27 2015 // A Conyers, Ga., man has been accused of DUI and public drunkenness while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a grocery store. Multiple media outlets are reporting that 48-year-old Danny W. Mitchell was cited at a...
Data Call Deadline Approaching for Property Insurers in Georgia
Oct 21 2015 // Personal and commercial property insurers in the State of Georgia have until Oct. 30 to respond to a Data Call from the Georgia Insurance Department. The bulletin for the data call, issued in August, states the information...
Fire at Georgia Apartment Complex Leaves 40 Homeless
Oct 20 2015 // Almost 40 people are looking for a new place to live after an overnight fire destroyed part of an apartment complex in Columbus, Georgia. Authorities say the Lullwater Apartments caught fire around 1 a.m. Monday. No one is...
Georgia-Based PointeNorth Insurance Group Merges With Debra LaVelle, Inc.
Oct 14 2015 // PointeNorth Insurance Group (PNIG) in Atlanta has merged with Debra LaVelle, Inc. of Canton, Ga., an independent insurance agency specializing in employee benefits. With this partnership, PNIG’s benefits operation is...
Former Georgia Peanut Managers Get Prison Time for Salmonella Outbreak
Oct 7 2015 // Two former managers of a Georgia peanut plant were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a deadly salmonella outbreak, though the men received far less time behind bars than the ex-boss they helped convict. A U.S....
Former Mayor of Georgia Town Pleads Guilty to 12 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Sep 28 2015 // Former Milledgeville, Ga., Mayor Richard Bentley has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of insurance fraud. Multiple media outlets report that Bentley was sentenced in Baldwin County Superior Court to 10 years probation, given a...
Former Peanut Exec Gets 28 Years for Georgia Plant Salmonella Outbreak
Sep 23 2015 // A former peanut company executive was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak, the stiffest punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. The outbreak in...
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to 23 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Sep 16 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced that Bibb County, Georgia, resident William Emerson Scruggs, 54, pleaded guilty to 23 counts of insurance fraud. Bibb County Superior Court sentenced Scruggs to three...
Immigrants in Georgia Sue Over Driver’s Licenses
Sep 10 2015 // A group of immigrants whose legal residency is disputed sued Georgia’s state government August 31 for refusing to issue them driver’s licenses. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the federal lawsuit...
Georgia Tackles Changing Behavior of Repeat DUI Offenders
Sep 9 2015 // In courtrooms around the country, judges are teaming up with prosecutors, defense attorneys, parole officers and substance abuse counselors to make long-term changes in the behavior of people with multiple arrests for...
Pending Mergers Will Harm Health Insurance Competition: AMA
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition. According...
People – Southeast
Sep 7 2015 // Georgia-based INSUREtrust has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team. Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs has 15 years of insurance experience,...
Apartment Building Explosion in Georgia Under Investigation
Sep 2 2015 // Firefighters are investigating a blaze at a Marietta, Ga., apartment complex that was reportedly rattled by an explosion August 31. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that firefighters arrived at the Crestmont...
Authorities on Alert After South Georgia Church Break-Ins
Aug 27 2015 // Law officers are searching for suspects who burglarized two Georgia churches. WTOC-TV reports that the break-ins are believed to have happened August 22 at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Alston and Tabernacle of...
11 Georgia Residents Charged With Staging Car Accidents
Aug 25 2015 // On August 24, investigators from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ Fraud division, with assistance from Bibb County Sherriff David Davis and his deputies, arrested six Macon, Ga., residents on charges of...
3 Georgia Residents Charged With Insurance Fraud
Aug 21 2015 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens’ office issued a warrant last week for three Treutlen County residents on charges related to insurance fraud. Theresa Dyer, 59, was charged with one count of insurance...
Study: In 1st Year, 2 Florida Laws Reduced Amount of Opioids Prescribed
Aug 19 2015 // Two Florida laws, enacted to fight prescription drug abuse and misuse in that state, led to a small but significant decrease in the amount of opioids prescribed the first year the laws were in place, a new study...
PIA of Georgia Elects New President
Aug 12 2015 // Dwight Taylor Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Dwight L. Taylor, to serve as president of the nation’s sixth largest affiliate at their annual meeting held in Savannah,...
Prosecutors Want Life Sentence in Georgia Peanut Exec Salmonella Case
Aug 10 2015 // Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called “unprecedented” for a...
