Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Credit Suisse to Appeal Bermuda Court Ruling Against Georgia’s Ex-Prime Minister
Jun 26 2023 // A Bermuda appeals court on Friday largely dismissed Credit Suisse’s appeal in an ongoing case involving the Swiss bank’s local life insurance arm and Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina...
Georgia Shop Owner Who Paid Worker 91,500 Oily Pennies Ordered to Pay $40,000 More
Jun 22 2023 // The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK Walker Autoworks...
Sublimit Left Out of Policy, But Liberty Mutual Firm Avoids Huge Payout Anyway
Jun 20 2023 // What happens when an insurance carrier, its underwriter, a broker and the insured all forget to make sure a sublimit endorsement on wind-driven rain losses is included in a multimillion dollar property policy? In the case...
Tornadoes, Strong Winds Caused Property Damage Across South
Jun 19 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Florida to Georgia late last week. The National Weather...
Storms Across Southeast Damage Buildings, Toss Cars, Topple Trees
Jun 16 2023 // Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms crossed the South from Texas to Georgia. The National Weather Service issued numerous tornado...
The Load: Georgians Prepare for New 88,000-lb. Weight Limits on Trucks
Jun 11 2023 // Georgia cities and counties, along with trucking and auto insurance companies, are preparing for the impact of a new law that raises the weight limit of tractor-trailers hauling agricultural and timber products in the...
Former Aflac Employee Charged as Ringleader of Georgia Fraud Scheme
Jun 5 2023 // A former Aflac Insurance employee, described as the leader of a fraud ring in Georgia, has been charged in connection with submitting dozens of false claims to the supplemental insurance provider. Amber Miles, 32, filed 52...
Business Moves
Jun 5 2023 // Midwest G&G Independent Insurance, Robbins Insurance Group G&G Independent Insurance has acquired Branson, Missouri-based Robbins Insurance Group. G&G has been serving the insurance needs of clients in Missouri...
3M, DuPont to Pay $100 Million to End Georgia Lawsuit Over Polluted Drinking Water
Jun 2 2023 // 3M Co., DuPont de Nemours Inc. and other makers of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to resolve a Georgia city’s lawsuit claiming the chemicals polluted its...
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Professors’ Challenge to Allowing Guns on Campus
Jun 1 2023 // Georgia’s highest court this week upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by five college professors challenging the removal of public colleges and universities from a list of “school...
Lightning May Not Have Struck at All: Georgia Man Wanted for False Insurance Claims
May 30 2023 // Authorities were searching this week for a Georgia man who falsely claimed a lightning strike caused more than $18,000 in damage to his property, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King said in a bulletin. Salvatore...
Georgia Workers at Largest School Bus Maker, Blue Bird, Vote to Unionize
May 19 2023 // Workers in Georgia at one of the nation’s largest school bus manufacturers have voted to unionize. Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United Steelworkers union by a vote of 697-435, according...
OSHA Cites Georgia Wood Treating, Maintenance Firm for Arsenic Exposure
May 18 2023 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Georgia wood-treating company and its maintenance firm for exposing workers to high levels of arsenic, actions that could result in as much as $180,000 in...
Driver Falls Asleep, 18-wheeler Hits Federal Courthouse in Georgia
May 15 2023 // A federal courthouse in Georgia was damaged when the driver of a tractor trailer fell asleep and the truck hit the building last week. The crash into the J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse in Dublin happened at about 12:30...
Georgia Commissioner Wants Consumers to Stay Away from ‘Dirt-Cheap Insurance’
May 11 2023 // Georgia’s insurance commissioner is warning consumers to steer clear of Dirt-Cheap Insurance, an unlicensed outfit that he said has sold fraudulent policies in the state. Three people associated with Dirt-Cheap,...
Hylant Expands with Acquisition of Aegis Insurance in Georgia
May 11 2023 // Hylant, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerages, announced it has acquired Aegis Insurance Services Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia, a broker and agency specializing in the moving and storage industry. Aegis,...
Brown & Brown Buys Brownlee Agency in Georgia
May 10 2023 // Brown & Brown has acquired Georgia-based Brownlee Agency, one of the oldest insurance agencies on Florida’s east coast. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, the companies said in a news release. Founded in 1974...
Georgia Couple Wins $135.5M for Land Damaged by Runoff from Solar Farm
May 5 2023 // A federal jury has awarded a Georgia couple $135.5 million for damages to their property by a Tennessee-based solar company and its contractor. The award against Silicon Ranch Corp. and its contractor, IEA Inc., was...
‘Insufficient Support’ Blamed for Collapse of Georgia Courthouse Under Renovation
May 4 2023 // Construction crews had placed “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the 124-year-old federal courthouse in Savannah, according to the government agency...
Georgia Sheriff’s Chief of Staff Charged with Insurance Fraud in ‘Hit-and-Run’ Claim
May 1 2023 // The chief of staff for an Atlanta-area sheriff has been charged with insurance fraud after an investigation found that he had lied about the circumstances of an accident. Braxton Tyree Cotton, 41, a major in the Cobb...
