Latest Georgia Headlines
All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ga. Releases $3 Million For Local Storm Response
Mar 9 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue released $3 million from the state’s emergency discretionary fund to cover past and future expenses incurred by local governments in responding to last week’s severe weather. Preliminary...
Georgia’s Oxendine Defends Main Street Agents in Compensation Battle
Mar 5 2007 // Exclusive Video Interview Oxendine: Insuring Coast Against Wind, Big Insurers Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who was recently elected to his fourth four-year term, thinks Main Street insurance agents are...
Custard Insurance Adjusters Promotes Two in Ga.
Feb 23 2007 // Custard Insurance Adjusters Inc. promoted Robert Soby to chairman of the board and chief executive officer and Rick Linville to president. While Soby and Linville have led CIA in most facets of operations and sales for...
Multi-State Natural Disaster Insurance Plan Gets Cool Reception
Feb 22 2007 // Insurance officials in Florida, where a spate of hurricanes have set the industry into turmoil, pitched the idea recently of multistate insurance pools for natural disasters to their colleagues from across the...
Ga. Proposal Would Require Prior State Approval of Med-Mal Rates
Feb 14 2007 // House Republicans introduced a measure that requires Georgia’s top insurance official to sign off on each medical malpractice rate hike, saying they’re unconvinced that new state laws aimed at suppressing...
The Commissioners: John Oxendine
Feb 12 2007 // Oxendine defends Main Street independent insurance agents Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, who was recently elected to his fourth four-year term, spoke with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega Wells at the...
St. Paul Travelers retreats on Ga. commissions
Feb 12 2007 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced that St. Paul Travelers Insurance Companies has changed what he alleges was the company’s prejudicial agent commissions on homeowners policies in...
One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
Georgia – John Oxendine
Feb 11 2007 // Commissioner John Oxendine hopes to set Georgia’s coast apart from its neighboring coastal states, and says he is wrestling with some insurers that are trying to put “big insurance loads” on the...
Georgia Lawmaker Wants to Ban Genetic Profiling by Insurers, Employers
Feb 6 2007 // Georgia state Rep. Ed Setzler says he’s seen a glimpse into the future — and he doesn’t like all he sees. The Acworth Republican has introduced a bill aimed at outlawing genetic profiling in Georgia by...
St. Paul Travelers Retreats on Ga. Commissions; Hearing Called Off
Feb 5 2007 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced that St. Paul Travelers Insurance Companies has changed what he alleges was the company’s prejudicial agent commissions on homeowners policies in...
Driver’s Ed Now Required, Georgia Teens Line Up for Classes
Jan 30 2007 // Driver’s education programs across Georgia are experiencing traffic jams of their own because of a new state law requiring 16-year-olds to undergo behind-the-wheel training before getting a license. The statute,...
Georgia Chief Vows Hearing into Commission Cuts by St. Paul Travelers
Jan 22 2007 // St. Paul Travelers has reduced commissions paid to insurance agents on homeowners policies sold in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Glynn, Liberty, and McIntosh Counties, according to Georgia Insurance Commissioner John...
Report: U.S. Rails with Hazardous Materials Vulnerable to Terrorists
Jan 18 2007 // Train lines that carry hazardous shipments have little or no police presence and shoddy security that makes them easy targets for terrorists, according to a newspaper investigation. During a several-month, nationwide...
Warm winter helps Georgia lower fire death
Jan 8 2007 // Georgia could see fewer than 100 fire deaths this year — the lowest toll in nearly a decade, thanks to warm weather, according to the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office. “Most of our fatal...
Warm winter helps Georgia lower fire death toll even in most vulnerable, colder counties
Jan 7 2007 // Georgia could see fewer than 100 fire deaths this year – the lowest toll in nearly a decade, thanks to warm weather, according to the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office. “Most of our fatal...
Ga.-Based Auto Writer AssuranceAmerica Expands to Louisiana
Dec 29 2006 // AssuranceAmerica Corp., an Atlanta based insurance holding company, has written its first auto insurance policy in Louisiana. The company now writes in six states including Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama and...
Ga. Commissioner Urges Fireworks Safety for New Year Celebration
Dec 28 2006 // Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine and the National Association of State Fire Marshals urges parents to protect their children – and themselves – from the dangers of fireworks during the...
Warm Winter Weather Helps Georgia Lower Fire Death Toll
Dec 20 2006 // Georgia could see fewer than 100 fire deaths this year — the lowest toll in nearly a decade — thanks to warm weather that is expected to last for rest of the year, according to statistics from the state Insurance and...
People and Places
Dec 11 2006 // The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-area marketing and communications firm, is augmenting its branding and public affairs capabilities with the promotion of one executive and addition of another, according to...
