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Declarations

Sep 1 2008 // Swimming in the Buff “You always find out who’s been swimming naked when the tide goes out. We found out that Wall Street has been kind of a nudist beach.” —Warren Buffett, who has been named the...

Business Moves

Sep 1 2008 // Apex Global, Benefit Partners Apex Global Partners Inc. acquired Benefit Partners and subsidiaries BP Life and Health Insurance Agency, Benefit Partners Financial Services, BP Risk Partners Insurance Agency and...

Mississippi College Gets OK for Post-Katrina Projects

Aug 25 2008 // The Mississippi College Board gave the University of Southern Mississippi approval to spend $27.5 million to rebuild its Gulf Coast campuses devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago. The money will be a combination...

State Ranking In Number of Events

Aug 21 2008 // F5 Tornado damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, May 25, 2008. Tornado damage, Windsor, Colo. Prior to 1990, the average number of tornadoes per year in the Continental US was 772. In the period from 1990 through 2007, the average...

Cindy Downs

Aug 21 2008 // Dallas-based wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent Towerstone Inc. has added four new members to its team. Cindy Downs was added as a senior underwriter in the firm’s MGA unit. Downs formerly was a...

– Decatur Street, New Orleans

Aug 21 2008 // The U.S. Census bureau ranked New Orleans as the fastest growing city in the nation last year, but populations in other South Central cities also are on the rise. In Texas, Houston added the most people between July 1,...

The Old Switcheroo

Aug 21 2008 // Declarations “[W]ith Oklahoma City having a higher metropolitan population, I thought it would have been the other way around.” – Officer Craig Murray of the Tulsa Police Department. A recent report...

Underwriter Reinsurance Co. Ordered to Stop Selling Insurance in Okla.

Aug 19 2008 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland has ordered Underwriter Reinsurance Co., also known as The Underwriter Group, to refrain from selling unlicensed, unauthorized insurance in her state. The Oklahoma Insurance...

On a Roll, Oklahoma Expected to Add Jobs This Year

Aug 8 2008 // Oklahoma added 22,500 jobs last year as the energy sector fueled an employment growth rate of 1.4 percent, sixth highest among all states, according to a newly released report. “We’re growing 1 percent faster...

America First Insurance Opens New Oklahoma Regional Office

Aug 6 2008 // Richardson, Texas-based America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced it has opened a regional office in Oklahoma City. With approximately $70 million in combined personal and...

Report: Donations to Okla. Political Organization May be Illegal

Aug 5 2008 // An organization controlled by Oklahoma attorneys who specialize in workers’ compensation cases has raised almost $1 million for political purposes mostly from injured workers who sometimes do not know they have...

Nev. Court Rules Workers’ Comp OK in Some Suicide Cases

Jul 28 2008 // In a precedent-setting case, the Nevada Supreme Court held last Thursday that worker comp benefits can go to families of people who kill themselves if an industrial accident broke down their “rational mental...

Midwest States High on List for Numbers of Tornadoes

Jul 21 2008 // While a rural area to the northeast of Denver, Colo., tops the nation when it comes to metropolitan areas most prone to tornadoes, Texas leads the states in the average total number of tornadoes per year in the continental...

Okla. City to Add Telephones as Tools for Tornado Warnings

Jul 18 2008 // In addition to blaring sirens and screeching weather-radio alerts, residents in Glenpool, Okla., will now have another way of learning about approaching tornadoes: they will get a telephone call. The City Council has...

Oklahoma Leads Nation in Weather-Safe Dome Shaped Buildings

Jul 16 2008 // If dome-shaped buildings that can withstand all kinds of destructive forces are the wave of the future, Oklahoma is leading the nation. Two dome-topped school buildings under construction in Dibble, Okla., are expected to...

Oklahoma Governor Appoints 4 to Workers’ Compensation Court

Jul 9 2008 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed four people to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court. The three new members of the court are Robert Lake Grove of Oklahoma City, William R. Foster of Norman and Eric W....

Tulsa Has More Traffic Accidents Than Oklahoma City, Insurer Says

Jul 9 2008 // A report by an automobile insurer concludes that Oklahoma City drivers are less likely than Tulsa drivers to be involved in traffic collisions. “Its kind of weird,” Lt. Roger Bratcher of the Oklahoma City...

Jul 7 2008 // People McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) added Jim Anderson as senior vice president in the Dallas-based firm’s property/casualty group. Anderson will oversee the production and account management of...

Find a Silver Lining in the Soft Market

Jul 7 2008 // Strategies From ‘Best Practices’ Agencies Searching for ways to survive and thrive in the soft market cycle? Cultivate untapped customer markets; proactively service renewals; use technology for efficiency and...

Okla. Agents Group Leader ‘Pleased’ With Legislative Session

Jul 7 2008 // Dan Ramsey, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, says the recently convened 2008 state legislative session was a good one as far as the association is concerned. Out of 4,000 bills considered...