After fighting more than 100 arson fires last year alone, Pine Bluff’s fire department hopes ideas from a new committee may help stop the blazes. “If you burn your neighborhood down, where are you going to live?” asked Sandra Richards, …
National Insurance Partners Inc. (NIP) announced that Holly Balmer has joined the company’s San Antonio team as benefit analyst. Balmer’s responsibilities will revolve around her extensive experience in employee benefits and group life insurance. She has provided expertise to numerous …
Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon named former State Representative Shirley Bowler of Harahan to take over the vacant position of deputy commissioner of the Office of Management and Finance in the Department of Insurance. Bowler’s appointment is effective on …
The minimum amount of automobile liability insurance Texas drivers are required to carry for bodily injury/property damage will increase on April 1 from the current $20,000/$40,000/$15,000 (“20/40/15”) coverage to “25/50/25” coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Texas law …
Insurance Journal is on the search for the nation’s leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Now, agencies have three ways to qualify: Top Overall Independent Agencies, Top Commercial …
Lyle D. Rhodebeck was recently named director of operational effectiveness of the State Auto Insurance Companies and was elected vice president by the Boards of Directors of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co., State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Co., State …
BrickStreet Insurance’s profit from running West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program more than doubled in its second year of business, but those heady days could be ending. In July, the company will face competition from other insurers for the first time. …
Authorities are concerned flooding could become a problem in the coming weeks as the Mississippi River neared flood stage in Natchez, Miss., Sunday. Flood stage near Natchez is 48 feet above gauge zero. At 47 feet, water will begin to …
Residents’ trust in their community’s new levee was justified Saturday as the earthen wall protected their town from the Meramec River, bloated by heavy rain that caused flooding across the Midwest. The Meramec crested about midday at 37.8 feet, its …
A new study on tort reform by a business-backed institute “proves tort reform does not work,” according to the association for the nation’s trial lawyers. American Association for Justice CEO Jon Haber, representing trial lawyers, said the state rankings recently …
