Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Insurance Broker’s Bookkeeper Charged With Stealing $1 MIllion
Jan 25 2010 // A 63-year-old former bookkeeper at a Dalton, Georgia insurance brokerage is facing federal charges she embezzled more than $1 million from her employer. Prosecutors say Carolyn Lynn Cherry of Chatsworth forged her...
Georgia Goes After SEUS CEO Fain
Jan 24 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has begun a criminal investigation into the business practices of M. Clark Fain, III, the former chief executive officer of Southeastern U.S. Insurance, Inc. (SEUS), a...
Georgia Insurance Chief Taps Bank with Ties for Governor Race Funds
Jan 20 2010 // Two leading Republican candidates for governor in Georgia have already turned to hefty lines of bank credit to help pump up their campaign finances months before the primary in July. State Insurance Commissioner John...
Georgia Estimates Snow, Ice Storm to Cost Insurers $25 Million
Jan 14 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that insured losses in North Georgia from the recent snow and ice storm are estimated to be about $25 million. The estimate includes damage to cars as well as homes and...
Georgia Insurance Chief Oxendine Top Fundraiser in Governor Race
Jan 11 2010 // Last Friday was a dollar deadline in the race for Georgia governor as the crowded field of candidates faced a key hurdle: demonstrating they can raise enough cash to go the distance. With several candidates still not...
Georgia Opens Probe of SEUS Insurance CEO Over Accounting
Jan 5 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine’s office has begun a criminal investigation into the business practices of M. Clark Fain, III, the former chief executive officer of Southeastern U.S. Insurance, Inc....
Ex-Georgia Football Player to Appeal Dismissal of Insurance Lawsuit
Jan 4 2010 // A former University of Georgia football player is asking a judge to reconsider his decision to dismiss a lawsuit that claimed the school’s athletic department failed to secure him a $500,000 insurance policy. Decory...
Andrews Joins Georgia’s J. Smith Lanier Agency
Jan 4 2010 // West Point, Ga.-based independent insurance brokerage J. Smith Lanier & Co. has hired Michael Andrews as director of Information Technology. Andrews has operated as an independent information technology consultant...
Ex-Georgia Player’s Injury Insurance Lawsuit Dismissed
Dec 31 2009 // A judge has dismissed a former University of Georgia football player’s lawsuit against the university’s athletic association and one of its former employees. Junior cornerback Decory Bryant’s football...
Texas Imperial Sugar Settles Property Claim for 2008 Georgia Explosion
Dec 29 2009 // Sugarland, Texas-based Imperial Sugar Co. has settled the property insurance claim for the February 2008 industrial explosion at its Port Wentworth, Georgia refinery for an aggregate of $345 million. A final $45 million...
Georgia Father, Son Agents Charged with Defrauding Goodwill, Insurer
Dec 21 2009 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine said two Macon insurance agents — a father and son– have been arrested after being charged with keeping premiums paid to them for auto and business liability...
Georgia Insurance Chief Oxendine Defends Trips
Dec 18 2009 // WSB-TV reported that a lawsuit claims Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine — a Republican candidate for governor — took trips on the tab of a campaign contributor who asked for help in an insurance dispute. The...
Georgia Officials Cite Eating While Driving In Fatal Collision
Dec 7 2009 // Officials in Forsyth County, Georgia say a 48-year-old woman who was killed in a highway collision may have lost control of he car because she was eating. Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Shelton says Rhonda D. McGinnis of...
Lawn Mower Is Not a Motor Vehicle, Georgia Court Rules
Nov 25 2009 // A riding lawn mower may have four wheels, a powerful engine and can cost as much as a used car. If it’s stolen, however, the Georgia Supreme Court concluded that it’s not a motor vehicle. The 4-3 decision...
Georgia Chief Offers Tips on How to Safely Deep Fry Turkey
Nov 24 2009 // Deep frying is an increasingly popular way to cook a turkey, but it’s not without its dangers. Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine urges Georgians to be careful when deep frying the holiday bird. He offers some...
Fire Official Urges Georgia Churches to Be on Arson Watch
Nov 20 2009 // Georgia’s top fire official is urging churches to bolster security after two metro Atlanta churches were set on fire. Georgia Insurance and Fire Safety Commissioner John Oxendine said officials are investigating...
Georgia Parking Garage Collapse Blamed on Improper Bolt
Nov 16 2009 // A letter sent to the customers of a parking deck that collapsed last summer blames a bolt for the accident. David Tyndall, whose company leases spaces in the Centergy parking garage, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Business Moves
Nov 15 2009 // Aon, Carpenter Moore Global insurance broker Aon Corp. has agreed to acquire Carpenter Moore Insurance Services, Inc., a provider of executive liability risk management services and a wholly owned subsidiary of The NASDAQ...
Business Moves
Nov 15 2009 // BB&T, Oswald Trippe Raleigh, North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services, the nation’s seventh largest insurance broker, said it has expanded its southwest Florida operation with the acquisition of Oswald...
Flooded Georgia Homeowners Seek Buyouts from Cobb County
Nov 15 2009 // Many Cobb County homeowners in Georgia say they’d like the county to buy their flood-damaged homes, but a county official says it’s impossible to accommodate all of them. About 300 people gathered at a...
