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IJ Contributor to Chair Texas State Bar Insurance Law Section

Jun 27 2008 // Brian Martin, a partner in the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP, was installed as the 10th Chairman of the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Martin is a frequent contributor to Insurance...

Watkins Insurance Named a ‘Best Place to Work’ in Central Texas

Jun 26 2008 // Watkins Insurance Group, a large, full-service, locally owned independent insurance agency in Austin, has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in 2008.” The company will be recognized during a banquet on...

Sunset Commission to Hear Input on Texas Department of Insurance Review

Jun 24 2008 // The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission is holding a public hearing June 24 and 25 to gather comments on the Sunset Commissioner Staff Report recommendations on the continuing governance of the Texas Department of Insurance...

Texas AG Settles With Companies Over ID Theft Charges; Cites Another

Jun 24 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached an agreement with two Austin companies that resolves the state’s May 2007 enforcement action against EZMONEY L.P. and EZPAWN L.P. The affiliated companies were charged with...

Kaufman Elected President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas

Jun 23 2008 // Garry Kaufman, president of Galveston Insurance Associates, Galveston, Texas, was elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) for 2008-2009 during the 111th Annual Conference & Trade Show....

Risk Control Results in Texas Home Builder Group’s First Dividend

Jun 23 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $59,360 dividend to the Texas Home Builders (THB) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The group’s first dividend was based largely on its first-year premium volume...

AFS/IBEX Names New Marketing Managers for South Central Region

Jun 20 2008 // AFS/IBEX, which provides premium financing for the property and casualty insurance industry, announced new marketing managers for the South Central region. Linda Leos joined AFS/IBEX team in the company’s Dallas...

Nix Promoted to Vice President at Colemont – Texas

Jun 20 2008 // Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Hardy Nix to vice president in Colemont’s Texas office. Hardy specializes in hard-to-place casualty lines, specifically general liability and umbrellas for many classes,...

Womack Named Texas Agent Group’s Young Agent of the Year

Jun 19 2008 // Matt Womack, partner and principal with the Watkins Insurance Agency in Austin, was named the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ André Juneau Young Agent of the Year. The presentation was made by Patrick Kinney,...

Harris County Leads Texas in Number of Tornadoes

Jun 19 2008 // Harris County has had almost twice as many tornadoes reported than any other county in the state according to a recent survey conducted by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). Despite its location south of what is...

Officials: Texas Governor’s Mansion Fire Politically Motivated

Jun 18 2008 // Investigators believe someone angry with the government set the fire that severely damaged the Texas Governor’s Mansion on June 8, and they offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. State Fire...

Muesse Named ACSR of the Year by Texas Independent Agents Group

Jun 18 2008 // Kimberly Muesse, a senior account manager with the Lockton Companies in Katy, Texas, won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award at the trade...

Morriss Wins Texas Independent Agents’ Drex Foreman Award

Jun 17 2008 // Texarkana life-long independent insurance agent Don Morriss, was named winner of the highest award given by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) at the 111th Annual Conference & Trade Show. Morriss is...

Cline Wood Agency Names Boan Transportation Manager

Jun 17 2008 // Cline Wood Agency appointed Jeff Boan Transportation sales manager for the company’s southwest sales region — Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. In addition to leading Cline Wood’s Arlington, Texas,...

Texas Weather Portends Record Agriculture Losses

Jun 16 2008 // In more than four decades of farming, Texas cotton producer Rickey Bearden says he’s never seen an early growing season like this one. In the past month, the South Plains — the world’s largest contiguous...

Texas Begins Test of Driver Verification Program

Jun 16 2008 // A coalition of Texas state agencies on June 2 launched a 60-day test of TexasSure, a program aimed at reducing the number of uninsured drivers in the state. The program, also known as the Texas Financial Responsibility...

Texas Appeals Panel Affirms Wind Pool’s Right to Day in Court

Jun 16 2008 // Comparing the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to a platypus — a creature native to Australia that appears to be a cross between a duck and a beaver — a Texas appeals court said it’s not always clear...

Jun 16 2008 // People Dallas-based Colemont Insurance Brokers promoted Su Young to vice president in Colemont’s Texas office. Young joined Colemont in 2001 as part of the Texas financial services team and is located in Houston. She...

Weather Is a Big Deal in South Central States

Jun 16 2008 // Well before the June 1 start of hurricane season claims costs from weather related damages were on a steady climb across the South Central states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Late May, early June hailstorms...

Declarations

Jun 16 2008 // He’s No Devil “They say I’m the devil and I’ve been bought off. It’s absolutely not true.” —Oklahoma Rep. Ron Peterson, R-Broken Arrow, a former independent insurance agent, announcing...