Commissioner seeks to fix Oxendine insurance waiver

State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said Monday he will push legislation to keep insurance commissioners from doing what John Oxendine did last month as he left office: granting themselves insurance licenses without taking mandatory tests. Hudgens, who succeeded Oxendine as insurance commissioner, wrote the new legislation after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday that Oxendine issued himself several insurance agent and adjuster licenses the day before his term ended.