http://www.insurancejournal.com Property casualty insurance news from Insurance Journal en-us Copyright 2009 Wells Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:22:48 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/img/insurance-journal-property-casualty-magazine-logo_88x31.gif http://www.insurancejournal.com 88 31 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/25/105580.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/25/105580.htm Despite the complexities of the nation's worst economic downturn in decades, some Louisiana-based companies are showing surprising growth. The state recently has seen its count of homegrown ... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:22:48 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/24/105544.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/24/105544.htm Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says homeowners whose properties are contaminated with defective Chinese drywall and who have been covered for more than three years by their ... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:41:52 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/24/105539.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/24/105539.htm Monte Stringer, executive vice president with U.S. Risk Inc. in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. for the coming year. Stringer and other new officers ... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:25:02 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/23/105521.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/23/105521.htm A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:58:55 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/23/105519.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/23/105519.htm The Texas Supreme Court says it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:52:32 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/20/105483.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/20/105483.htm Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $760,070 dividend to the Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group. TGI has earned $2,643,037 in workers' compensation dividends since 2005. Group ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:58:06 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/20/105481.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/20/105481.htm Jefferson Parish's embattled chief administrative officer, Tim Whitmer, is retiring as federal investigators began subpoenaing records of his private company's insurance work with government ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:49:32 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/19/105459.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/19/105459.htm A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet MRGO was a substantial cause for the ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:11 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/19/105455.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/19/105455.htm In 2005, when Cory Brooke, a partner of TCOR Insurance Management in Beeville, Texas, traveled to Nicaragua with other insurance executives as a volunteer for non-profit Bridges to Community, he ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:05:00 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105428.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105428.htm U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon of Louisiana has introduced federal legislation that would prevent insurance companies from cancelling or failing to renew homeowners' policies as the ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:22:19 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105418.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105418.htm AbleCo Insurance, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has added Suzanne Gilbert and Robbie Morris.  Gilbert joins AbleCo Insurance as personal lines sales director and Morris as commercial lines ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:22:41 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105416.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/18/105416.htm Waco, Texas-based National Lloyds Insurance Company has introduced the Presidential Homeowners Program, targeting owner/primary residence properties in Texas. According to the company's ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:16:31 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/17/105397.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/17/105397.htm A federal judge has denied a request by Cintas Corp. for summary judgment in a 2007 wrongful death lawsuit in Tulsa, Okla., a ruling that paves the way for a jury to hear the case against the ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:48:34 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/17/105391.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/17/105391.htm The Texas Department of Insurance has ordered State Farm Lloyd's (SFL) to refund a total of $310 million to policyholders after finding that the insurer had overcharged customers beginning in ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:21:55 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/16/105364.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2009/11/16/105364.htm A Marksville, La., agent and her agency have been issued cease and desist orders, summary suspensions and fine notices for allegedly allowing an employee to conduct the business of insurance ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:47:52 -0600