Business Insurance in Georgia

Insurance Regulator

Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire

Georgia’s elected Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner licenses and regulates insurance companies and insurance professionals, investigates insurance fraud, and oversees consumer complaint services. The Office’s state license lookup covers agents, agencies, and companies. ^1,2,3

• Regulator website
• License lookup
• File a complaint
• Phone: (800) 656-2298

Surplus-Lines Tax and Stamping Office

Reported tax rate: 4% of total premium when Georgia is the home state Georgia charges 4% on the total premium written and received by a surplus-lines broker when Georgia is the insured’s home state. Current fee treatment is not described here because the Department’s latest fee bulletin could not be retrieved as readable text; ask your broker for the policy-declaration and tax breakdown. This record does not state a Georgia-specific guaranty-fund conclusion. ⁴

Coverage Guides

• General Liability Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia’s 2022 amendment extended several-only apportionment to actions against one or more persons, for cases filed after the amendment took effect.

• Directors and Officers (D&O) Insurance in Georgia

  Review Georgia’s new business-court claim venue option and the amended charter rules for insured directors and officers.

• Technology E&O Insurance in Georgia

  Compare technology E&O and cyber terms for Georgia technology vendors, including vendors handling confidential data.

• Cyber Liability Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia’s 2024 state-published code names information brokers and government data collectors for resident notice; banking rules add same-time Department notices for licensees.

• Media liability in Georgia

  Georgia’s early-dismissal procedure for public-issue speech can affect how a media claim moves through litigation.

• Georgia employment practices: a narrow state-law route and broader federal rules

  What Georgia employers should know about the state Fair Employment Practices Act, federal overlap, and questions to take to an employment practices liability broker.

• Fiduciary Liability Insurance in Georgia

  Review Georgia retirement-program and payroll duties alongside the employer’s plan-sponsor responsibilities.

• Georgia Hired and Non-Owned Auto Coverage

  Georgia’s rental handoff and vehicle-proof rules can affect employees using rented cars for work.

• Professional Liability (E&O) Insurance in Georgia

  Check Georgia's E&O limits and policy form options for private professionals who review plans or inspect projects for local authorities.

• Workers’ Compensation Insurance in Georgia

  Check Georgia’s three-person threshold, the officer-counting rule, and contractor exposure to uninsured subcontractors.

• Georgia BOP: Price Property and Income Around Severe Storm Exposure

  Use Georgia’s storm history to compare what a BOP quote says about your building, contents, liability and interruption period—and what needs a separate policy.

• Georgia Umbrella and Excess Liability Guide

  Compare Georgia contractor licensing floors with the much higher limits some state contracts set for demolition, implosion, medical services, and other work.

• Georgia Medical Malpractice Insurance Guide

  Compare Georgia medical malpractice quotes with the state’s separate insurer and physician reporting duties in view.

• Representations and Warranties Insurance in Georgia

  Check Georgia contract claim deadlines against negotiated representation survival, policy notice dates, and any home-state surplus-lines tax.

• Kidnap and Ransom Insurance in Georgia

  See how Georgia's surplus-lines rules, disclosures, and placement options affect a business buying kidnap and ransom coverage.

• Georgia Crime Insurance Guide

  Use Georgia’s check-handling and electronic-payment rules to identify employee-theft, forgery, and social-engineering wording to compare in a commercial crime quote.

• Commercial Auto Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia sets 25/50/25 road liability minimums and requires drivers to show proof when operating a vehicle owned by someone else.

• Cargo Insurance in Georgia

  See how Georgia intrastate household-mover cargo filings and claim procedures affect the gap between carrier responsibility and your goods' value.

• Liquor liability insurance in Georgia

  Georgia limits alcohol-provider claims to defined service and driving circumstances.

• Key Person Insurance in Georgia

  Learn how Georgia insurable-interest rules, employee consent, and life guaranty limits affect a business-owned key person policy.

• Product liability in Georgia

  Georgia product-liability guide for manufacturers, sellers and businesses that use products in the state.

• Commercial Property Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner’s business guide describes a coastal wind-only Georgia Underwriting Association option when another insurer excludes wind, and warns that basic commercial property coverage may omit code-upgrade costs.

• Garage Liability Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia used motor vehicle and parts dealers need a certificate with prescribed liability limits; each business location has separate licensing duties.

• Inland Marine Insurance in Georgia

  Georgia’s insurance commissioner names contractors’ equipment and property held by others as inland-marine examples; a state equipment lease puts shipment risk on the supplier until acceptance.

• Georgia Public Works Bid Bonds

  Georgia public works bidders should first identify whether the project is procured by the state or a local government.

• Builders Risk in Georgia

  Use Georgia's flood maps and local permit file to plan where the structure, materials and equipment will sit during construction.

• Georgia Equipment Breakdown Insurance Guide

  Plan equipment-breakdown quotes around Georgia’s boiler inspection schedule, controls testing, and repair approvals before restarting regulated equipment.

• Georgia Management Liability Insurance

  Compare Georgia employment-law exposure and company indemnification duties with D&O and EPL policy terms.

• Product Recall Insurance in Georgia

  See what Georgia agriculture officials tell manufacturers to do after a positive test and how retailers handle returned product.

• Fidelity Coverage for Georgia Community Association Managers

  Georgia brokers handling community-association funds face a narrow fidelity rule with a $60,000 threshold, association-level documentation and a formula tied to funds controlled.

• Intellectual Property Insurance in Georgia

  Compare Georgia rules that affect trade-secret controls, employee inventions, and public disclosures when you evaluate IP insurance.

• Check Georgia’s insolvency-pool treatment against the policy class

  Georgia excludes financial-guaranty and surety insurance from its insolvency pool. Ask the broker to identify the policy’s actual form and classification before relying on state insolvency protection.

• Venture Capital Asset Protection Insurance in Georgia

  Check how Georgia adviser rules and fund entity structure affect a venture capital manager’s insurance review.

• Digital-asset insurance questions for Georgia kiosk businesses

  Georgia’s kiosk rules make operator, location and transaction roles important when you insure a digital-asset business.

• Telehealth Insurance in Georgia

  See which Georgia telehealth rules apply to your clinicians, from physician-board examination and emergency instructions to written telemental-health consent.

• Employee Health Benefits in Georgia

  Compare Georgia’s employer contribution, group-plan and individual-plan options, including the new Georgia Access For Business model.

• Georgia trucking insurance: match authority, filings and cargo

  Georgia trucking insurance decisions start with the work you do and the authority you hold. Georgia separates public-liability filings from cargo evidence and vehicle registration.

Sources

1. Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire. Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire; Official homepage; regulator role, elected commissioner, complaint and license lookup links. Accessed 2026-09-28.
2. Agents, Agencies and Licensing. Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire; Official state license lookup for agents, agencies, and companies. Accessed 2026-09-28.
3. Report Complaints & Fraud. Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire; Consumer Services complaint instructions and official complaint portal. Accessed 2026-09-28.
4. Non-Admitted Insurance: Premium Tax FAQs. Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire; 4% applies to total broker-written and received premium when GA is home state. Accessed 2026-09-28.
5. Licenses. At-Bay; Current producer introduction and state table; At-Bay Insurance Services LLC; P&C and surplus-lines identifiers. Accessed 2026-09-21.
6. Licenses and Carriers. Coalition; Licenses and Carriers, re-read 22 September 2026: Insurance Licenses table for Coalition Insurance Solutions, Inc., national producer number 18419475, with producer and surplus-lines numbers for all 50 states and DC including California 0L76155, Georgia 196479, Texas 2199630 and 2205589, Pennsylvania 815731 and 817452, Colorado 539028 and Wisconsin 3000108852. Insurance Carriers table naming, with NAIC numbers, Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company 36420, Arch Specialty Insurance Company 21199, Ascot Specialty Insurance Company 45055, Ascot Insurance Company 23752, Aspen Specialty Insurance Company 10717, Chaucer Insurance Company DAC, Coalition Insurance Company 29530, Fireman's Fund Indemnity Corporation 11380, Fortegra Specialty Insurance Company 16823, Lloyd's of London, MSIG Specialty Insurance USA Inc. 34886, MS Transverse Specialty Insurance Company 41807, Steadfast Insurance Company 26387, Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company 16275 and Zurich American Insurance Company 16535. Accessed 2026-09-22.
7. Insurance Producer Licenses. Corgi Insurance; Current complete Insurance Producer Licenses table for Corgi Insurance Services, Inc.; 50 rows covering 49 states and DC (DC 3003091619); no New Mexico row; no NPN or as-of date shown. Accessed 2026-09-28.
8. About Hiscox US Insurance. Hiscox; Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. NAIC 10200 as Chicago, IL domiciled insurer admitted or licensed in all 50 states and D.C.; Hiscox Inc. as general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder for Syndicates 33 and 3624; surplus-lines placements through licensed surplus-lines brokers; A.M. Best rating statement. Accessed 2026-09-16.
9. Licenses. ERGO NEXT Insurance; Current entity-by-state license table reopened 28 September 2026: 50 rows under Next First Insurance Agency, Inc., including Washington, DC; New York rows instead list Next Insurance Services PC-1423070 and AP Intego BR-1198885. Accessed 2026-09-28.
10. Insurance Licenses by State. TechInsurance; Current state table; identifies TechInsurance as a division of Specialty Program Group LLC d/b/a SPG Insurance Solutions; lists DC 3000041536 and labels Rhode Island “Individual licenses,” without an agency license number. Accessed 2026-09-28.
11. Licenses. Vouch; Effective 16 January 2025: Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, NPN 19926463; P&C table (50 states and DC); surplus-lines table includes Idaho 870820; footnote says Georgia and Idaho do not issue agency-level surplus-lines licenses; Idaho retained as producer-only due to conflict. Accessed 2026-09-15.