Texas / South Central News for April 2018
- Texas Crash Spurs Approval of Balloon Pilot Medical Exams in U.S. House
 - Arkansas Suspends Licenses of Agent, Agency in Insurance Fraud Investigation
 - Lubbock’s Butler Carson Tate Insurance Merges with Higginbotham
 - Retired Engineer Questions Plans to Relieve Houston-Area Bayou Flooding
 - Wagner to Lead P/C Operations for EPIC Insurance’s Southwest Region
 - Texas-Based Goosehead Insurance Going Public With IPO
 - Valero Refinery Fire in Texas Released Air Contaminants, Report Finds
 - Seeman Holtz Acquires Houston Agency’s Marine, Motorcycle Business
 - Louisiana Lawmakers Eye Stiffer Penalties for Pipeline Damage
 - Southwest Has Paid Millions in Safety Violation Fines, Faced Union Safety Complaints
 - Appeals Court Reverses New Orleans-Area Flooding, MRGO Ruling
 - Texas Attorney Gets 10-Year Sentence for Role in $26M Work Comp Fraud
 - Cause of $6K in Damage to Small Arkansas Airport? Coyotes.
 - Texas Windstorm Policy Assumption Program to Begin Soon
 - Tulsa County Democratic Party Chair to Run for Insurance Commissioner
 - Tuttle Named Operations Director for TDECU Insurance Agency
 - Lance Armstrong, US Government Settle Lawsuit for $5M
 - Sheriff: Arson a Possibility in Deadly Oklahoma Wildfire
 - Houston-Area Flood Control District: $155M Needed for Harvey Damage Study, Repairs
 - Firefighters Hope Better Weather Will Aid Oklahoma Wildfire Fight
 - Louisiana Man Admits Setting 9 Fires in Neighborhood, Gets 2 Years
 - Tractors Worth $50K Stolen from Scottie Pippen’s Arkansas Farm
 - Deadlines for Texas Windstorm Insurer Appraisal Demands Extended
 - Dean & Draper Acquires Houston’s Texas Printers Insurance
 - Louisiana Auditor: State Spent $5M on Sexual Harassment Lawsuits
 - Surveyors Confirm 2 More Tornadoes Hit Arkansas Over Weekend
 - Feds Say New Orleans Towing Firm Breached Discrimination Settlement Agreement
 - Still No Arrest 5 Years After Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
 - Arkansas Insurance Department Recovers $1.1M for Consumers in Q1
 - 2 Killed in Oklahoma Wildfires, Threat Continues
 - 9 Tornadoes Confirmed in Arkansas from Weekend Storms
 - IICF Southeast Division Awards $473K in Grants to Nonprofits in Texas, Region
 - Senefsky Joins IIAT as E&O Sales Executive
 - Study: Louisiana Medicaid Expansion Brought Jobs, $3.5B Impact
 - 4 Injured as Twister Roars Through Northwest Arkansas Town
 - Dozens of Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Square Miles in Oklahoma, Texas
 - Accused of $211K Insurance Fraud, Arkansas Suspect Surrenders
 - Texas County to Urge Flood Insurance Purchase via Billboards
 - Houston-Area Officials Say They Didn’t Know About Reservoir Flood Risks Pre-Harvey
 - Louisiana Bill Would Create Reinsurance Pool for Health Coverage
 - Oklahoma Orders More Cuts in Water Injection Amounts After Earthquakes
 - Yiannopoulos’ Louisiana State University Speech Canceled for Lack of Insurance
 - USI Southwest Finalizes Truck Insurance Program with Trisura Specialty
 - Insurance Wholesaler Socius Insurance Services Opens Dallas Branch
 - Smith Named Executive Director of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission
 - Texas Developers’ Use of Fill for Flood Resilience Scrutinized Post-Harvey
 - Arkansas Woman Arrested on Insurance Fraud, Arson, Theft Charges
 - Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Houston’s Integrity Transportation Insurance
 - Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner to Leave Post May 1
 - Houston-Area Residents Sue Engineering Firm Over Harvey Flooding
 - Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office Adds 3 New Board Members
 - $1.2B in Federal Flood Control Funds Going to Louisiana
 - Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Facing Dual Threats: Tornadoes, Wildfires
 - Study: Mississippi River Flood Control Work Likely Worsened Downstream Flooding
 - Koncaba Appointed to Texas Mutual Board; Swanson Reappointed
 - Owners Settle with Louisiana Sheriff, Deputy Over Killing of Dog
 - Seeman Holtz P&C Acquires Federal Employee Insurance Business in Oklahoma
 - City Council Approves Changes to Houston’s Floodplain Regulations
 - Bill to Lower Louisiana Drinking Age Shelved
 - Antifraud Group Adds Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner to Executive Committee
 - Research on Coastal Housing Shows Gaps in Natural Disaster Recovery Policies
 - Oil Platform Worker Pleads Guilty to Pollution Violation in Gulf Blast
 - Texas Bar to Pay $24K to Settle ‘Hot Pants’ Pregnancy Discrimination Suit
 - Texan Who Used ‘Affluenza’ Defense in Fatal Accident Released from Jail
 - Lawsuits over Arkema Chemical Disaster in Texas Add Up
 - Texas Landscaper Must Pay $400K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
 - Arkansas Judge: 6 Farmers Can Spray Controversial Chemical Dicamba
 - 3 Petrochemical Companies to Pay $11M for Waste Violations in Louisiana
 - Arkansas AG Files Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers for Roles in Epidemic
 - Louisiana Bill Raises Civil Penalties in Hazing Death Lawsuits
 
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