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Best Agency to Work For: Midwest
Oct 4 2012 // This year six agencies in all received top honors as a Best Agency to Work For. The Best Agencies to Work For in 2012 include: Bryan Insurance Agency, Graham, Texas; Meyer & Cook Insurance, Walnut Grove, California;...
Best Agency to Work For: Overall
Oct 4 2012 // This year six agencies in all received top honors as a Best Agency to Work For. The Best Agencies to Work For in 2012 include: Bryan Insurance Agency, Graham, Texas; Meyer & Cook Insurance, Walnut Grove, California;...
Best Agency to Work For: West
Oct 4 2012 // This year six agencies in all received top honors as a Best Agency to Work For. The Best Agencies to Work For in 2012 include: Bryan Insurance Agency, Graham, Texas; Meyer & Cook Insurance, Walnut Grove, California;...
Texas’ 99 Cent Stores Fined $121K for Safety Violations
Oct 3 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Commerce, Calif.-based 99 Cent Only Stores Texas Inc. with 19 serious safety and health violations at the company’s Houston...
TWIA Study Recommends Lowering Agent Commissions
Oct 2 2012 // Among the top recommendations by a consulting firm hired by Texas insurance regulators to investigate and report on ways to restructure the state’s property insurer of last resort in coastal areas is to reduce the...
Sinkhole Hits Businesses, Home Values in Rural Louisiana
Oct 2 2012 // Dennis Landry’s bed and breakfast was in the middle of a record business year before a sinkhole prompted authorities to tell 150 households in the towns of Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou in Louisiana to evacuate. Soon...
Texas Mutual Adds Osmond as Claims Manager in Dallas
Sep 27 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has hired Timothy Osmond as claims manager in Dallas. Osmond will be responsible for management of a staff of 36 claims professionals in Texas...
Texas Brine Blames Tremors for Louisiana Sinkhole
Sep 26 2012 // Officials say tremors recorded in Louisiana’s Assumption Parish since late May could be why a brine cavern encased within the Napoleonville salt dome failed and caused a massive sinkhole. Texas Brine Co. spokesman...
Service to Retail Agencies Is Aim of Texas Wholesale Insurance Group
Sep 26 2012 // A group of Texas-based managing general agents/brokers has formed the Texas Wholesale Insurance Coalition (TWIC) with the goal of enhancing their markets, attracting Texas retail agency partners, and gaining economic...
Declarations – South Central
Sep 24 2012 // A Cause for Concern “A rate increase of this magnitude is troubling. This is the largest single rate increase filing from a major carrier that we have seen in years.” –Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel...
People – South Central
Sep 24 2012 // Louisiana-based Specialty Risk Associates Inc. promoted two and added employees in its Shreveport office. Kelly Babin assumed the position of controller. Babin, a Certified Public Accountant, joined Specialty Risk in 2010...
Business Moves – South Central
Sep 24 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Sunday and Associates Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Sunday and Associates Inc. of Sugarland, Texas. Established in 1982, Sunday and Associates...
Official: Texas Coastal Insurer Is Unsustainable
Sep 24 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is not sustainable and likely won’t be until the state spreads the costs of risks associated with major hurricane strikes beyond just Texans living in coastal areas, the...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
No Surprise, I-35 Tops List of Texas’ 100 Most Congested Roadways
Sep 21 2012 // A portion of Interstate 35 that traverses Fort Worth is the most congested roadway in Texas, according to the state Department of Transportation. Topping TxDOTs’ list of the state’s most congested roadways is a...
Iowa Judge: Texas Firm Must Pay Disabled Workers $1.4M
Sep 20 2012 // A Texas company that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour must pay the men $1.37 million in back wages, a federal judge has ruled. The judgment...
McCombs Risk Advisors Opens for Business in Austin, Texas
Sep 18 2012 // McCombs Risk Advisors LLC (MRA) announced its launch as a newly created Texas-based insurance services company. MRA, which will initially have offices in Austin and San Antonio, offers property and casualty brokerage and...
Official: Texas Coastal Insurer Is Unsustainable
Sep 14 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is not sustainable and likely won’t be until the state spreads the costs of risks associated with major hurricane strikes beyond just Texans living in coastal areas, the...
State Farm Lloyds Files Homeowners Rate Increase in Texas
Sep 13 2012 // State Farm Lloyds says it intends to increase homeowners rates in Texas by an average 20 percent. The company announced it has submitted a rate filing to the Texas Department of Insurance. The actual premium change for any...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three-Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
