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People – South Central
May 2 2016 // LevelFirst, a wholesale insurance broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., appointed Rhonda Fomby as vice president. Fomby assumes the responsibility of underwriting new business opportunities with the...
My New Markets
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Business Moves
May 2 2016 // Alliant, Andre-Romberg Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz,...
Texas Mutual Awards $600K in College Education Grants
Apr 29 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has awarded a combined $600,000 in grants to College of the Mainland in Texas City, Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, El Paso Community College, Kilgore College, Midland College and...
Climate Change and The Conservative Republican
Apr 28 2016 // If you’re a conservative Republican, there’s a decent chance that you believe in climate change. Compared with two years ago that is. Don’t tell this to Rush Limbaugh or presidential hopeful Donald Trump....
Texas Roofer Fined $80K for Repeated Workplace Hazards
Apr 28 2016 // Federal safety regulators have levied $80,280 in penalties against Quick Roofing LLC for repeatedly exposing workers to falls, ladder hazards and eye injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said...
Texas, Louisiana Residents Sue Toledo Bend Dam Operator Over Flooding
Apr 28 2016 // Nearly 240 Texas and Louisiana residents have sued the Sabine River Authority over March flooding that inundated hundreds of homes and closed Interstate 10. Communities in Southeast Texas and Louisiana were flooded by up...
FEMA: $30M in Disaster Assistance Going to Texas Following March Storms
Apr 27 2016 // More than $29.9 million in federal and state aid to date is helping the residents of 13 Texas counties recover from the severe storms, tornadoes and flooding in March, the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Central U.S. States Hit with Tornadoes, Strong Storms
Apr 27 2016 // A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on April 26, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said. The storm...
A.M. Best: Texas Hail Storm Damage Poised to Exceed 9-Year U.S. Average
Apr 26 2016 // A.M. Best says year-to-date 2016 results in Texas alone appear to have already met the nine-year average for hail storm damage in the United States. According to Best’s Briefing, titled, “Texas Hail Storm...
Allstate Racks Up Big March Losses from Southwestern Hailstorms
Apr 21 2016 // The Allstate Corp. this week announced estimated catastrophe losses for the month of March of $638 million pre-tax, and an estimated $827 million pre-tax for first quarter 2016, in the wake of severe hailstorms in the...
Travelers Profit Drops 17% in Q1 Due to Texas Storms
Apr 21 2016 // The Travelers Companies Inc. reported net income of $691 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2016, down 17 percent from $833 million in the prior year quarter. Operating income in the current quarter was $698 million...
OSHA: 3 in South Central States Killed when Riding Mowers Overturn
Apr 21 2016 // In the past month, three landscape company employees have died in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas when riding mowers or tractors overturned into water or a stream bed — equaling the total in the previous six years, a...
Ex-Insurance Agent in East Texas Sentenced to 3 Years for Fraud
Apr 21 2016 // A former insurance agent in East Texas must serve three years in prison for running a $5 million medical investment scam. Robert B. Hahn was sentenced in federal court in Tyler. The 64-year-old Tyler man in November...
San Antonio Storm Costliest Hail Event in Texas History
Apr 20 2016 // More than 110,000 vehicles and thousands of homes in Texas regions of north San Antonio and Bexar County were pelted by large hail in what will become the costliest hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Independent...
Report: Ammonium Nitrate Still Close to Schools, Houses in Texas
Apr 19 2016 // A newspaper analysis has found that while some safety steps have been taken across Texas following the deadly 2013 explosion at a plant in West, tons of the same kind of fertilizer that exploded there can still be found...
Randall, Smith Top Allstate’s List of Stormiest Texas Counties
Apr 18 2016 // Texas storms affected more Allstate insured homes in Randall county than any other part of the state over the past five years, while Smith county saw the highest frequency of lightning. Allstate tallied the top 25 Texas...
Texas Inundated as Storms Dump More than a Foot of Rain
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Crashes Increase on Texas Roads; Distracted Driving Part of the Problem
Apr 18 2016 // The number of vehicle crashes in Texas involving injuries and fatalities rose from 139,646 in 2011 to 155,844 in 2014, an increase of 12 percent. That unfortunate trend continued in 2015, the Insurance Council of Texas...
People – South Central
Apr 18 2016 // Craig Dunn has been selected to lead the Dallas office of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas. He succeeds Todd Teitell, who is retiring after having served as office president since 1997. Prior to being promoted to this role, Dunn...
