Yearly Archives: 2008

Hope is Not an Agency Plan

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Despite current market conditions, as I travel from state to state, I find the goal of almost every independent agent...

Austin, Texas-based insurance education provider, The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, selected Kathleen G. Speer as director of...

It Figures

2,000 Nearly 2,000 storm victims had been rescued in Galveston, Texas, in the course of nearly 500 missions as of...

Disaster Fatigue

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After President George W. Bush surveyed the damage along the Texas Gulf Coast just days after Hurricane Ike rammed its...

Agents Weigh in on Gustav

In response to e-mailed inquiries from Insurance Journal, a number of Louisiana-based insurance operations reported they had prepared for Hurricane...

Business Moves

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Wm. W. George & Associates Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Dallas-based retail insurance...

Damage Costs Mount From Gustav

As Hurricane Ike loomed in the Gulf of Mexico, insurers and officials in Gulf Coast states were still tallying damage...