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Mississippi to Test Guardrails After Texas Jury Finding
Oct 30 2014 // State transportation officials are investigating where faulty guardrails have been installed along Mississippi roadways. Trinity Industries Inc. stopped shipments of its ET-Plus guardrails after Texas jury ordered to pay...
Heaven & Hail: Hail Insight and the Damage it Brings
Oct 30 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Hail Damage by the Numbers Damage from convective storms continues to capture the attention of both the public and insurers because of the increase in the number of...
Dollar Tree Stores Recently Fined $262K for Safety Hazards in Texas
Oct 29 2014 // National discount chain Dollar Tree Stores Inc., based in Texas, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for willfully and repeatedly exposing workers to serious...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Seeks Presenters for Safety Summit
Oct 29 2014 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking presenters for its 19th Annual Workplace Safety and Health Conference, the Texas Safety Summit, which will be held in Austin on May 19-21, 2015. The...
Texas to Hold Hearing on Windstorm Association Maximum Limits
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing to consider the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) petition related to the maximum limits of liability for windstorm and hail insurance...
Allen Named Insurance Fraud Prosecutor for Dallas County
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced Amy Allen as a fraud prosecutor who will work exclusively with criminal prosecutors in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to combat insurance fraud. Allen...
Scholarships Awarded to Texas Women in Insurance Group Members
Oct 27 2014 // The National Alliance presented five scholarships to Federation of Insurance Women of Texas Incorporated (FIWT) members at the organization’s 70th Annual Convention, held in Waco, Texas. The CIC and CISR scholarships...
All Risks Ltd. Adds Martino, Flake in Texas
Oct 27 2014 // Frank Martino and Rhonda Flake have joined based in Hunt Valley, Md.-based insurance wholesaler All Risks Ltd. in the firm’s South Central operations. Frank Martino Martino is a broker in Austin, Texas. He...
Ford Appointed to Texas FAIR Plan Governing Committee
Oct 24 2014 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance Julia Rathgeber appointed Christina Ford of Red Oak to the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Governing Committee. The commissioner also reappointed Georgia Neblett of Port...
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...
