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Fireman: Trucker ‘Zombie’-Like After Fatal Bus Crash
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer. Staley had been heading north on...
Texas Cotton Farmers Say Farm Bill Provision Saves Crop Insurance
Oct 23 2014 // Texas cotton producers say they are pleased to learn the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reconsidered its decision about implementing a provision of the farm bill. The department’s announcement means its Risk...
Jury: Texas Company Should Pay $175M in Guardrail Case
Oct 23 2014 // A jury has decided that a Texas company should pay $175 million in a case involving the safety of thousands of guardrails on highways around the country. A whistleblower charged that the company changed the design of caps...
Atlantic Specialty Lines Hires Personal Lines Producer, Rob Hardway
Oct 23 2014 // Austin, TX, October 23, 2014– Atlantic Specialty Lines (ASL), a wholesale broker and specialty lines MGA offering a variety of property, casualty, auto, professional, and personal lines coverages, is continuing its...
All-Star Insurance Adds 2 Agents Gilmer, Texas
Oct 22 2014 // All-Star Insurance Group Inc., a full service independent insurance agency based in Gilmer, Texas, has added Joye Cooper and Jeniffer Kitchell as agents. Joye Cooper Cooper will maintain an office at All-Star Insurance...
New York Says It’s Ready for Ebola, but Many Health Workers Aren’t So Sure
Oct 22 2014 // Millicent Gist, a receptionist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was surprised to hear her facility was an officially designated hospital for people suspected of having Ebola in New York City. That’s...
Ebola Monitoring in Texas Expires for Some
Oct 21 2014 // About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said. Officials said 43 of 48...
Jury Finds Texas Windstorm Insurer Adequately Paid City for Ike Claims
Oct 21 2014 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort in coastal areas announced that a judgment has been entered in its favor in a lawsuit brought by League City in Southeast Texas. The judgment signed on Oct. 16, 2014, by...
Update on Ebola in U.S.: New CDC Protocols, Rapid Response Team, Czar
Oct 21 2014 // The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from...
McCunniff Joins Texas-Based Bailey Insurance & Risk Management
Oct 20 2014 // Mark McCunniff has joined Bailey Insurance & Risk Management in Waco, Texas, as a commercial lines producer. Mark McCunniff McCunniff received his Risk Management & Insurance degree from Baylor University and spent...
‘More Stringent’ Ebola Safety Guidelines In the Works; Travel Ban Debated
Oct 20 2014 // The safety protocol used by healthcare workers to treat Ebola patients in Dallas wasn’t adequate because it didn’t require that all skin be covered, said Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute...
Judge: Louisiana Law Applies
Oct 20 2014 // Texas Brine asserted in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, that “Liberty filed in Texas despite the fact that the sinkhole occurred in Louisiana, and all the other claimants and claims are in Louisiana. Texas...
Texas Brine, Liberty Insurance at Odds Over $50M Louisiana Sinkhole Claim
Oct 20 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge, La., has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company. Texas Brine LLC...
The Pitfalls of Rejecting a Defense Under Texas ‘Same Facts’ Test
Oct 17 2014 // Texas law recognizes that an insurer’s reservation of rights can create a potential conflict of interest. Northern County Mut. Ins. Co. v. Davalos, 140 S.W.3d 685 (Tex. 2004). Although there is a potential for...
Existing Protocols for Ebola Questioned
Oct 17 2014 // As Thomas Eric Duncan’s health deteriorated, nurses Amber Joy Vinson and Nina Pham were at the Ebola patient’s side. They wore protective gear including face shields, hazardous materials suits and protective...
Mississippi Businessmen Seek $7.9M from Texas Lawyers for BP Claim Referrals
Oct 17 2014 // Three Mississippi businessmen argue in a federal lawsuit that Texas attorneys owe them $7.9 million for steering to them thousands of people seeking to resolve claims against BP from the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Gulf Coast...
11 CAA Agencies Selected for ‘Best Practices’
Oct 16 2014 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced 11 of its agencies have been recognized as 2014 “Best Practices” agencies by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA...
Wind Insurer Settles Lawsuit with South Texas School District
Oct 16 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a southern school district, according to state district court records in Cameron County. The...
Atlantic Specialty Lines Hires 32-year Insurance Industry Veteran, Suzy Popplewell-Baird
Oct 16 2014 // Houston, TX, October 16, 2014– Atlantic Specialty Lines (ASL), a wholesale broker and specialty lines MGA offering a variety of property, casualty, auto, professional, and personal lines coverages, is announcing a...
Texas-Based Premium Finance Group to Be Sold to South Dakota’s MetaBank
Oct 15 2014 // Cecil Y. Ray Jr., chairman of AFS/IBEX and former chairman of The Rigg Group, has announced the sale of substantially all of the loan portfolio and related assets of Dallas-based AFS/IBEX Financial Services Inc. –...
