Governor and Key Lawmakers Took Free Hunting Trips with SEUS Chief

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chiefmike@workcompcentral.comGeorgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and top state Republican lawmakers took all-expense paid trips to a quail-hunting retreat operated by failed workers' compensation carrier Southeastern U.S. Insurance Co. at a time when SEUS was writing coverage for workers in a state-run jobs program, according to a television news report and information obtained by WorkCompCentral.Perdue, who spearheaded a series of ethics reforms in Georgia in 2003, and three of the four lawmakers highlighted in a news report by Fox 5 News in Atlanta Tuesday flew ...