Commissioner views agency as a resource for industry and consumers. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland has been at her current job less than six months, but new to the insurance industry she’s not. A former insurance agent with a specialty …
They didn’t go as far as hopping across the border and camping out in a Holiday Inn, but Democrats in the Oklahoma Senate recently took a page from the book of their counterparts in the 2003 Texas House when they …
Waldman Bros. may not be the oldest independent insurance agency in Texas, but with strong family ties and a desire for organic growth it may very well outlast some agencies with a longer history. Not that the firm is the …
The region of the country that encompasses Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas was the last in the U.S. to be developed by the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance, a partnering organization dedicated to networking among its independent insurance agency members. …
Have you ever seen a performance of a piece of “music,” I think it’s by the modern composer Philip Glass, in which a chamber group comes on stage, sits down, and begins to mime the work–going through the motions of …
Specialty Risk Associates, a managing general agency headquartered in Shreveport, La., has been on the move in the past several years–expanding beyond its Louisiana base into neighboring states–and has plans to increase its regional visibility even further in the coming …
I’m afraid to see my next auto insurance bill. My daughter “totaled” her car recently. Yes, it was her fault, and no, no one was seriously hurt, thankfully. She ran into the back of a pickup truck at a stoplight, …
In 2003 Texans voted for Proposition 12, which placed limits on jury awards in medical malpractice lawsuits. Currently, the U.S. Congress and the Oklahoma Legislature, among others, are considering similar tort reform measures. It took a while, but in recent …
Is the use of credit histories in insurance rating good, bad or indifferent? In general, insurers favor the practice. They say it makes for more accurate underwriting. Indeed, a number of studies, including an exhaustive one recently released by the …
Depending upon which side of the fence you stand, the excess and surplus insurance market is either too expensive and too unregulated, and therefore unreliable, or the right solution for a complicated risk at a difficult time. Sure it can …
