Georgia News

Imperial Sugar to Pay $4 Million Fine for Deadly Georgia Blast

Imperial Sugar has agreed to pay more than $4 million in fines for safety violations at its Georgia refinery where a dust explosion killed 14 workers in 2008, federal regulators said. The settlement with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health …

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Georgia Court Finds Teacher Not Liable for Student Injury

The Georgia Supreme Court says a Forsyth County teacher can’t be held liable for a student’s injury during a bottle rocket experiment. The court ruled last week in a 4-3 decision that South Forsyth Middle School teacher Patricia Grammens is …

Brown & Brown Acquires Meridian Group of New York

Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired Meridian Group of New York, Inc. Meridian Group, with annual revenues of approximately $1.3 million, provides life, health, and other employee benefits products and services to individuals, businesses, public entities, non-profit organizations, …

Brown & Brown Acquires Eberhart & Co. of Georgia

Florida-based agency Brown & Brown has acquired Eberhart & Company Insurors, Inc.of Roswell, Georgia. With revenues of approximately $1 million, Eberhart has served the insurance needs of individuals and businesses in the Atlanta metropolitan area since 1969. Eberhart principals Ralph …

Business Moves

Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph James & Associates Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Joseph James & Associates of Dublin, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1989, Joseph …

Declarations

BP Claims Law “I think the best way to look at it is the way Congress looked at 9/11 cases. Would your claim be applicable under state and, in this case, maritime law? If the state would recognize it, then …

West Faces High Wildfire Potential

Arizona Wildfire Incurs $1.8 Million in Claims An Arizona wildfire that has burned 15,075 acres and incurred $6.9 million in claims to date might be the first example of the fire risks the Western United States are facing in 2010. …

New Markets

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Brown & Brown Acquires South Carolina’s Commonwealth Insurance

Insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired Commonwealth Insurance Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1996 by Todd R. Tyler, Commonwealth Insurance Group, with annual revenues of approximately $2.6 million, provides commercial property/casualty, group employee benefits, and workplace …