Latest Georgia Headlines
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Georgia Senate Panel Wants Businesses Shielded from COVID-19 Suits
Jun 17 2020 // A Georgia Senate committee wants to protect businesses, governments, property owners and emergency personnel from being sued if someone claims they contracted COVID-19 because of them. The Senate Public Safety Committee...
Smith Elected President of Independent Insurance Association of Georgia
Jun 16 2020 // The Independent Insurance Association of Georgia (IIAG) has elected Ash L. Smith as president. Smith is an executive vice president of Blanchard & Calhoun Insurance Agency in Augusta, Ga., working in the risk...
Georgia Eases Virus Rules to Allow Sports, Conventions
Jun 15 2020 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is lifting more health-related restrictions that stemmed from COVID-19, allowing spectator sports and live performance venues to reopen and conventions to resume on July 1, subject to some...
Georgia Nursing Home Cited for Delayed Reporting of Virus-Infected Workers
Jun 1 2020 // The federal agency that oversees workplace safety said Friday that it had issued its first citation in the U.S. related to the coronavirus outbreak: against a Georgia nursing home that delayed reporting the hospitalization...
Georgia Man Accused of Defrauding Employer Over COVID-19
May 27 2020 // A Georgia man faces charges after authorities say he lied to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Santwon Antonio Davis, 34, is charged with defrauding his employer, the U.S. attorney’s office in...
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against State of Georgia in Copyright Dispute
May 18 2020 // The Supreme Court ruled last month against the state of Georgia in a copyright lawsuit over annotations to its legal code, finding they cannot be copyrighted. The 5-4 ruling splintered the court along unusual lines and...
Buckle Adds Delivery Coverage During Pandemic for Georgia Rideshare Drivers
May 18 2020 // Buckle, a technology-driven financial services company, has been granted temporary approval to add insurance coverage to its rideshare driver members’ policies for the delivery of food, household supplies, and other...
After Criticism, Georgia to Require Road Test of Teen Drivers After All
May 15 2020 // Psych! Thousands of teens in Georgia who got their driver’s licenses without having to take a road test during the coronavirus pandemic will now be required to take one after all. Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive...
More Restrictions Eased in Georgia; AG Asks Congress for Business Lawsuit Protections
May 14 2020 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp eased a few restrictions Tuesday on businesses and child care operations, but said he was keeping most current rules until at least the end of May. The Republican governor reiterated that he...
Texas’ Paramount GA Launches Online Platform for Transportation Risks
May 12 2020 // Tyler, Texas-based Paramount General Agency, a licensed program administrator with a focus on the long-haul trucking industry, has launched an online platform offering a multi-line suite of insurance products for its...
Georgia Allows Teen Drivers to Bypass Road Test During Pandemic
May 11 2020 // Thousands of teens in Georgia don’t have to take a road test to get their driver’s licenses during the coronavirus pandemic, under an executive order signed by the governor. Teens between the ages of 16 and 18...
Growing Virus Outbreak in Northeast Georgia Causes Concern
May 8 2020 // Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia. Kemp has moved aggressively to allow businesses to reopen even though infections are on the rise in some...
Federal Aid Denied to Georgia County for Damage from April Tornado
May 8 2020 // A county in Georgia will not receive any federal relief funds after a tornado that swept through the South in April destroyed dozens of homes in the area, authorities said. Murray County Commissioner Greg Hogan told news...
Few New Restrictions as Georgia’s Shelter-at-Home Order Ends
May 4 2020 // Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will allow his statewide shelter-in-place order to expire at midnight Thursday but is extending his emergency powers to June 12 and telling the elderly and medically fragile to stay at home until...
Effective May 1st, 2020 Berkley Luxury Group will be writing upscale real estate condos, co-ops, rental properties and Class A office buildings in the state of Georgia.
May 4 2020 // Rutherford, NJ, May 4, 2020 Berkley Luxury Group, a Berkley company offers nationwide insurance solutions with two divisions, Berkley Luxury Real Estate Specialists and Berkley Fine Dining Specialists. The name is designed...
Georgia Coronavirus Deaths Top 1,000 Amid Reopening Effort
Apr 30 2020 // Georgia officials reported Tuesday the coronavirus has killed more than 1,000 people statewide as some local officials urged people to continue isolating at home in spite of the governor’s aggressive efforts to...
Kemp Tours Storm-Damaged Towns in South Georgia
Apr 27 2020 // Gov. Brian Kemp traveled Friday to towns in south Georgia where severe storms recently damaged several homes and businesses. Kemp flew to Pelham to assess damage in that community and the surrounding area, according to a...
Trump ‘Disagreed Strongly’ with Georgia Gov.’s Plan to Reopen State
Apr 24 2020 // President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to...
More States Making Plans to Lift Coronavirus Restrictions
Apr 23 2020 // More states in the U.S. South and Midwest signaled readiness on Wednesday to reopen their economies in hopes the worst of the coronavirus pandemic had passed, but California’s governor held firm to sweeping...
Georgia Gambles on Reopening Business Amid Pandemic
Apr 23 2020 // A handful of mostly southern U.S. states will begin loosening economic restrictions this week in the midst of a still virulent pandemic, providing a live-fire test of whether America’s communities can start to reopen...
