Texas / South Central News for July 2017
- Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office Website to Begin Redirect
- FEMA Says ‘No’ to Taking Back $2B in Katrina Funds from New Orleans
- Rogers Named IIAT’s Customer Service Representative of the Year
- California Commissioner Takes Aim at Oil, Coal Producing States
- Disaster Declaration OK’d for 16 Oklahoma Counties
- Texas Senate OKs Bill That Preempts Local Texting While Driving Rules
- Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Names New Board Members, Top Young Agent
- Former Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner Bordelon Joins Granite Public Affairs
- TCOR Management’s Dudney to Chair Texas Independent Insurance Agents Group
- Texas Bill Allows More Flexibility in Employee Health Benefit Plans
- Louisiana Continues to See Gains in Employment
- Team Work Ready Execs Sentenced in Federal Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
- Texas Seeks Applicants for Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Board
- Houston Manufacturer Sued for Race Discrimination
- Louisiana’s Centauri National Insurance Earns Demotech ‘A’ Rating
- Louisiana Plans Multiple Storm Mitigation Projects
- Houston’s Dean & Draper Promotes Smith to Leadership Team
- Morris Reappointed to Louisiana Workers’ Comp Advisory Council
- Fatal Arkansas Train Accident Prompts Hazard Rating Increase
- Louisiana Regulators Recover $4M for Insurance Policyholders
- Texas Bill Would Change Workers’ Comp Medical Causation Report Law
- Verisk: Texas 2nd in Number of Households at Risk for Wildfire
- TWFG Honors Top Producers
- Texas Lawmaker Seeks to Limit Austin’s Construction Site Worker Protections
- Officials Warn of Spike in Food-Borne Illness in Texas
- 10-Vehicle Wreck in West Texas Blamed on Dust Storm
- Credit Ratings of Texas’ State Farm Lloyds Upgraded
- Crystal & Company Names Price a Director, Specialty Products Group
- Thomas Joins Insgroup’s Employee Benefits Practice in Houston
- Railroad Sued by Injured Former Employee after Arkansas Wreck
- Contractor Cuts Texas Oil Pipeline; 1,200 Barrels of Crude Spilled
- Earthquakes Rumble Central Oklahoma
- Langlinais Joins Crystal & Company in Houston Risk Control Unit
- ICT Honors Haigood with Raymond Mauk Award
- House Joins Crystal & Company’s Energy Team in Houston
- Feds Fine Exxon $165K over Explosion, Worker Injuries Louisiana Oil Refinery
- Texas E&S Broker McClelland & Hine Promotes Barnes and Hine
- New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas
- Feds Sue Louisiana Candle Maker for Retaliation
- Nearly 1.9K Reports of Cybercrime in Arkansas in 2016: FBI
- Texas’ RHP General Agency Acquiring Homeowner Business from Sycamore Insurance
- Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Declares $90M Policyholder Dividend for 2016
- U.S. Risk Insurance Group Acquires IMS London American
- Former Texas Businessman Gets 7 Years for Scamming London Insurer
- Texas Peach Crops Affected by Mild Winter
- Louisiana Farmers Could be Helped by $10M Program for Flood Recovery
- 3 New Arkansas Counties Added to Disaster Aid List
- Arkansas Commissioner Kerr Approves 3 New Insurers in State
- Oklahoma Labor Chief: ‘F’ Grade for Safety Inaccurate
- Republican Lawmaker Mulready to Run for Oklahoma Insurance Post
- Texas Workers’ Comp Draft Rule Requires Preauthorization of Compounded Drugs
- Oklahoma AG Sues Prescription Opioid Drug Manufacturers
- Apartments Damaged, Trees Downed by Spin-Up Tornado in Arkansas
- Farmers Insurance to Pay $100K in 2015 Oklahoma State Homecoming Crash
- 2016 Texas Hail Losses Exceed $5B
- New Report: Oklahoma’s Rural Roads, Bridges Among Nation’s Worst