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Federal Funds Issued To Help Pay Ga. Wildfire Costs

Aug 28 2007 // The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency authorized $6.1 million in federal funds to reimburse local and state costs incurred while fighting numerous wildfires in southeast Georgia...

Lawyer: Case Against Ga. Sheriff Over Firings Is Settled

Aug 10 2007 // An attorney representing a group of deputies who sued after they were fired when a new sheriff took office in Clayton County says the case has been settled. Harlan Miller, attorney for the employees, said the settlement...

ConAgra to Reopen Georgia Plant Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Aug 8 2007 // ConAgra Foods Inc. said Monday it plans this month to reopen the plant in Georgia where thousands of jars of peanut butter linked to a U.S. outbreak of salmonella were filled. The Omaha-based company said it was planning...

Ga. Receives $40 Million in Homeland Security Grants

Jul 31 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue announced the award of $40 million in federal homeland security grants to Georgia for allocation to eligible communities around the state. “With the assistance of our federal partners, we continue...

Ga. Doctor Pleads Guilty in $5 Million Health Care Fraud

Jul 23 2007 // A Savannah doctor pled guilty to participating in a $5 million scheme to defraud Georgia health care insurance programs. Rafael G. Razuri, who was an owner of Southside Medical and Rehabilitation Center, pled guilty to...

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Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...

Georgia Fourth in CNBC Rankings of Best States to Do Business

Jul 18 2007 // In three major business rankings recently released, Georgia landed in the top five among states in areas such as best states to do business, entrepreneurship rate and nonemployer business growth. “By maintaining a...

Oxendine: Arson Unlikely in Ga. Church Fire

Jul 10 2007 // Arson is unlikely in a northwest Georgia church fire that broke out early on July 6 – Georgia’s third church fire in less than two weeks, investigators said. Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John...

Eastern Alliance Now Writing Workers’ Comp in Va., N.C., S.C. and Ga.

Jun 21 2007 // Eastern Alliance Insurance Co. reports it has received regulatory approval to write workers’ compensation business in the four southeastern states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The company...

Ga. Town Bucks Fireworks Ban, Plans Display Despite Drought

Jun 20 2007 // The annual Fourth of July fireworks display in Roswell, Ga., will proceed as planned – barring a return of extremely dry conditions – the fire chief told the city council Monday night. “It’s raining...

Main Street America Reveals New Rating Program in Georgia

Jun 15 2007 // The Main Street America Group unveiled a new rating program designed to provide greater pricing flexibility for the super regional property-casualty carrier’s new Personal Auto policies. Personal Auto MVP...

Georgia Gov. Authorizes Funding to Improve Highway Safety

Jun 14 2007 // In the name of automobile safety and traffic flow issues, Gov. Sonny Perdue announced the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded a $192 million contract for the long-anticipated reconstruction of the Interstate...

Ga. Drought Damaging Crops, Jacking Up Irrigation Expenses

Jun 8 2007 // The sky above Randy Scarbor’s south Georgia cantaloupe fields was overcast, but the clouds were from massive wildfires to the east. May 2007 set records for dry conditions in Georgia. Across the main crop-producing...

Ratings Roundup: Jefferson; Southern Guaranty; Professionals Direct

Jun 6 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of “A” (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a+” to New York-based Jefferson Insurance Company. The outlook is stable, in line with that...

Ga. Governor Requests Presidential Emergency Declaration

Jun 5 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue sent a letter to the president requesting an emergency declaration for all 21 Georgia counties impacted by the continual widespread threat of drought and wildfires that has consumed more than 490,000...

BB&T Insurance Buying Georgia’s Reese Agency

May 30 2007 // BB&T Insurance Services said it plans to expand its metro Atlanta operation with the acquisition of Reese Insurance Associates Inc. of Riverdale, Ga. Reese provides both commercial and personal property and casualty...

Ga. Gov. Releases $7 Million to Fight Southeast Georgia Wildfires

May 22 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue issued an executive order that allocates $7 million in unspent state funds to fight the wildfires in southeast Georgia. The fires have burned over 130,000 acres in Georgia. “These additional funds...

Wildfires take major toll in Georgia, Florida

May 21 2007 // Officials closed a 35-mile stretch of Interstate 75 from the Georgia-Florida state line to Lake City, Fla., as well as a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 10, from U.S. 90 to U.S. 129, as a gigantic wildfire approached them...

Spring wildfires, floods wreak havoc from coast to coast

May 21 2007 // Nature’s fury made life miserable from one end of the United States to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires near both coasts and the Canadian border and by major flooding in the Midwest. And...

Wildfires take major toll