The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting applications for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board of directors after the makeup of the board was changed by the 84th Legislature. Under Senate Bill 900, the board will include: Three board members …
A settlement has been reached with the last remaining defendant in a 16-year-old lawsuit brought by the California Department of Insurance that arose out of the 1991 liquidation of Executive Life Insurance Co. The French company Artemis S.A. has agreed …
As part of New Hampshire’s effort to address the ongoing drug abuse problem, Gov. Maggie Hassan has signed a bill that will spare people from criminal prosecution in certain cases if they are reporting a drug overdose. Hassan is calling …
JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc. (JLT Specialty USA), a U.S. subsidiary of London-based Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc., hired Joe Taccetta as executive vice president. Taccetta will be based in New York where he will be part of the management …
Richard “Gordy” Bunch, founder, president and chief executive officer of The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) in The Woodlands, Texas, has been named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 for the Gulf Coast area. Bunch was announced as …
Having lost their latest war against President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, Republicans must decide how to wage battles that could fan the issue for the 2016 elections. Last month’s Supreme Court decision upholding the statute’s federal subsidies, which help …
While the safety of their private financial information is a big deal for a lot of people, when it comes to protecting it, many are actually pretty lax, a new survey says. According to the phone survey commissioned by MasterCard, …
Oswald Companies, based in Cleveland, Ohio, appointed Tim Walsh to the position of director of Construction Practice, Property & Casualty. He will be based at Oswald’s Detroit office and oversee the full construction practice in all of Oswald’s geographic markets. …
The Missouri Department of Insurance helped consumers who filed a complaint against their insurance company receive an additional $6.3 million in claim payments in the first half of 2015. Health insurance generated the most complaints in the first half of …
Craig Sparks, non-executive chairman of Union Standard, has been presented with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). Sparks is the eighteenth recipient of the award. The ICT presents the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award each …
