Yearly Archives: 2001

HIGHLANDS’ S&P RATING LOWERED

Standard & Poor’s has lowered its financial strength ratings on all members of the Highlands Insurance Group, to double-‘Bpi’ from...

iwix.net CEASES OPERATIONS

iwix.net, an Internet specialty insurance marketplace, will close effective April 30 due to its inability to secure additional funding. The...

CROP RIP-OFF’

A North Texas independent crop adjuster has pleaded guilty to one charge of presenting false claims to the U.S. Department...

SAI TO LEAVE TEXAS

SAI Plus, LLC, of Rockville, Md., has agreed today to stop its unlicensed health insurance business in Texas and to...

FORE!

Local associations around Texas have planned their annual golf outing fundraisers. The 2001 Insurance Women of Austin Golf tournament has...

KATY AGENCY ACQUIRED

Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Vaught Insurance Services in Katy, Texas. The company...

LAW AND ORDER

New residential property insurance amendatory endorsements adding $5,000 in “law and ordinance” coverage to standard homeowners and dwelling policy forms...

Swan Song

By
This is my swan song to you. In just a few days I’ll begin a new job with a new...

Living Through the Dot-Com Shakeout

By Jack Graham
Either through personal experience or observation, we all know that during the second half of 2000, Wall Street pummeled the...