Georgia News

Swett & Crawford Adds Godde to Professional Liability Team in Atlanta

Gregg Godde is bringing his experience in the placement of directors and officers liability insurance for the healthcare, management liability and other professional services sectors to the Atlanta office of wholesale broker Swett & Crawford and its Professional Services Group. …

Foremost Insurance Offers New Auto Program in Georgia

Foremost Insurance Group has made its new DistinctChoice auto insurance program available in Georgia. The program features increased limits and deductible options, broad eligibility and popular discounts including a multi-policy discount for those with policies within the group of Farmers, …

Georgia Bans 2 Organizations’ ‘Insurance’ Sales

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine has ordered two organizations allegedly acting as unlicensed insurers to stop selling insurance-like products. The two groups are The Butler Aid Society and God First Missionary Membership Association and Floral Club, both located in …

Swett & Crawford Launches Transportation Unit in the Midwest

Atlanta, Ga.-based wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford, has formed a Midwest transportation team to be integrated into the firm’s national Transportation Practice Group. The team will be lead by Doug Falls, sales leader and branch manager of S&C’s Minneapolis …

Georgia Insurance Merger Firm M&A Wins Award Against Former Employee

Insurance industry merger consultant Merger & Acquisition Services, Inc. (M&A) reports that it has been awarded a $1.76 million judgment against a former officer of the company who kept M&A customer information and other property that he used to compete …

Florida, Georgia Insurance Chiefs Renew Catastrophe Cooperation Plan

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine have renewed a partnership agreement to ensure continuity of operations in the event of a catastrophe that causes significant disruption to either state’s insurance regulatory operation. Under the agreement, …

NetRate Systems Delivers Commercial Lines Rating System to Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc.

Okemos, MI., August 4 2009 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI) is pleased to announce implementation of the NetRate Commercial Lines Rating System at Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc., of Pooler, GA. Trinity Underwriting Managers will utilize the NetRate software to …

Unsafe Truck, Bus Operators Told to Shut Down Are Still on Roads

Hundreds of tractor-trailer and bus companies ordered to shut down because of federal safety violations ranging from suspended licenses to possible drug use have stayed on the road by using different names, investigators say. The study by the Government Accountability …

States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers

Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists. They got their producer licenses in states …

People

Will Weston, vice president and principal of Blanchard & Calhoun Insurance Agency in Augusta, was elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) during the association’s recent annual meeting. Weston has been a member of IIAG’s Executive …