Policyholders in Georgia with State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. can look forward to a decrease in their rates by an average of 2.2 percent starting on November 21, 2011. State Farm is the leading car insurance company in Georgia. It will be saving its customers in the state a total of $23.2 million per year. The Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s office explained that the reduction in rates…

Though insurers in Georgia had already increased premiums for homeowners insurance by 9 to 23 percent last year, many are already making requests to obtain permission for another increase. The largest homeowner policy writer in Georgia, State Farm, is asking for an increase of 7 percent next year. According to state officials, this would be in addition to the 20 percent increase that it already put into place at the…

Beginning July 1st, insurers in Georgia will be able to sell health insurance policies available across state lines. Other states have been considering similar laws but Georgia is the first to pass such a law. The issue of inter-state insurance policies has been hotly debated for some time now. Critics of the law argue that it will put consumers at risk as most out of state insurance policies that will…