Texas Mutual, AgriComp Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has launched a new workers’ compensation purchasing group for the agriculture industry, AgriComp. Any licensed Texas agent can submit qualifying clients for consideration. AgriComp is open to qualifying seed merchants, cotton farming gins, …
New York-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has hired Robert H. Easton as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer. Easton most recently served as deputy superintendent and general counsel for the New York State Department of Insurance. …
Big Rig Giveaway “I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, an Oklahoma truck driver, said he entered Great American Insurance Group’s “Big Rig Giveaway,” for the first time in 2010 after learning …
Homeowners who are dependent on Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort will see rates increasing by an average 7 percent statewide. Rate increases — as well as decreases — will vary widely, especially in southeastern Louisiana where Louisiana Citizens Property …
McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT), recently named Fred Pecina and Jeremy Sandusky partners in the agency. Pecina is based in the firm’s Ft. Worth office, and Sandusky works in MHBT’s Dallas office. Pecina, previously the director of employee benefits …
Health Care Reform Opens Doors for New Exposures and Markets Those in the business of providing liability coverage to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, may have just found themselves in a perfect storm of opportunity. Health care reform …
Fraud bills are blooming like azalea bushes around the East this spring, and statehouses are rife with upside potential for substantive new fraud laws in 2010. This counters the recent logic that many state lawmakers are too busy trying to …
Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall. Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that President Obama board Air Force …
In the current economy, the pressure is really on. It’s not enough to just sell the product — you want your sales people to be best equipped to build the relationships that will differentiate themselves, and therefore the brand. To …
Central Insurance Companies of Van Wert, Ohio, announced the retirements of Michael E. Thompson and George J. Gress. Additionally, Central promoted Jana L. Ringwald to vice president of Commercial Underwriting for its Central Mutual and All America subsidiaries, and Patrick …
