Homeowners insurance rates have risen by average of 8 percent nationwide in 2002 due to an extraordinary number of catastrophes,...
Monthly Archives: July 2002
A federal bankruptcy court ruled that Dallas businessman Aharon Chen and A.C. Painting Inc., his now-bankrupt company, defrauded more than...
Indicating it is seeking a 16 percent rate increase for auto policies in Louisiana, State Farm Insurance Co. has stopped...
District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal sentenced Houston attorney Bernardo Eureste to three years probation for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges,...
Professionals seeking to attain Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation now have a new option. A Certified Risk Managers (CRM) course...
Following an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Postal...
For the past 25 years, our Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets has been published each January and July....
Insureds and cedants have sued their insurance agents, insurance brokers, reinsurance intermediaries or reinsurance brokers when their insurance carrier or...
On May 23, 2002, the Texas Supreme Court issued its opinion in Mid-Century Insurance Company of Texas v. Boyte, a...
Swett & Crawford chairman David Hartoch has seen a number of changes in the excess and surplus industry during his...