Texas / South Central News for July 2018
- Flood Insurance Uptake Rates Rise in Texas Following Harvey
 - Midlands Management Enters Oklahoma Marijuana Insurance Market
 - Alliant Adds Morris as Sr. VP, Employee Benefits, in New Orleans
 - Texas Countertop Maker Faces $318.6K in Fines for Workplace Hazards
 - Higginbotham, Sellers-Patterson Insurance Merge Operations in Tyler, Texas
 - LWC’s Office of Workers’ Comp Administration Adds Lee as Fraud Manager
 - Oklahoma Quake Lawsuit Against Oil Company Moves to Class-Action Status
 - Texas Seeks Input on Draft of Revisions to Catastrophe Data Call Standards
 - Texas Contractor Ordered to Pay $250K After Worker Fatality at Dallas Site
 - New Brightway Agency Opens in Baton Rouge
 - Petrobras Reaches $3.5M Settlement in Texas Refinery Emissions Case
 - Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Now Writing Accountants Professional Liability in Texas
 - Aspen MGA, Tower Hill Specialty Partner on Property Programs in Texas
 - Texas Strikes ReliaMax From Eligible Surplus Lines List
 - Texas Woman Gets 30 Years in Prison for Arson, Insurance Fraud
 - Auto Insurer Loses Appeal for Dismissal of Complaints in Louisiana Claims Dispute
 - Texas Sees 10.6% Growth in Surplus Lines Premium at Mid-Year
 - 12 Sent to Hospital After Carbon Monoxide Leak at San Antonio Hotel
 - Wildfires Burn in Texas as High Heat, Low Humidity Persist
 - Louisiana State Police Arrest 5 in Staged Crash Case
 - Texas Energy Services Firm to Pay $39K in North Dakota Racial Harassment Suit
 - AssuredPartners Acquires Hutson Insurance Group in Texas
 - Brown & Riding Adds Pike as Property Broker in Dallas
 - Texas Stamping Office: National E&S Insurance Premium Up 9.4% at Mid-Year
 - Baker Appointed Assistant VP at RHSB in Texas
 - Explosion, Fire at Oklahoma Disposal Well Injures 3
 - Arkansas Approves Rules with Opioid Prescription Limits
 - Brown & Brown Subsidiary Acquires Texas MGA and Arkansas Affiliate
 - Texas Insurers’ Trade Group Honors Gerik with Raymond Mauk Award
 - Arkansas Recovers $3.67M for Insurance Consumers in First Half of 2018
 - Explosions, Fire at Texas Gas, Cylinder Company Spur Evacuations but No Injuries
 - Risk Services’ Eppers Elected to Louisiana Agents & Brokers Group Board
 - Oklahoma Attorney General Assembles Team of Lawyers over Marijuana Rules
 - SCM Acquires Affirmative Risk Management in Arkansas
 - Oklahoma City Spending to Improve Traffic Issues, Prepping for Self-Driving Cars
 - Baylor in Texas Settles Suit with Woman Who Accused Players of Rape
 - New Orleans Won’t Have to Return $2B in Hurricane Katrina Grants
 - Southwest Louisiana Considering Bike-Sharing Programs
 - Conservative States Like Oklahoma Balk at Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana
 - Texas Mutual Announces 2 Workers’ Comp Fraud Convictions
 - Wrongly Named Suspect in Texas Police Shooting Files Lawsuit
 - Alliant Acquires CLS Partners in Texas
 - Registration Opens for IRMI Construction Risk Conference in Texas
 - Arkansas Company to Pay $38K in Gender Pay Discrimination Case
 - Is a Massive Tunnel System the Answer to Houston’s Flood Woes?
 - Shell Subsidiary to Pay $3.8M for 2016 Gulf Spill Off Louisiana Coast
 - Halliburton Sued by Feds for National Origin, Religious Discrimination
 - Texas Extends Use of Negotiated Experience Modifiers in Workers’ Comp
 - Report: Texas Failing to Enforce Flood Insurance Rules
 - Alliant Acquires Texas Employee Benefits Firm, CLS Partners
 - Oklahoma Sees Fewer but More Severe Earthquakes This Year
 - More Than $5B Headed to Texas for Flood Control Projects
 - Oklahoma High Court: Rebates Still Available to Workers’ Comp Carriers, Self Insurers
 - Blue Bell Creameries’ Directors to Face Investor Claims Over Listeria Outbreak
 - State Panel Urges Armed Presence in Arkansas Schools
 - Credit Ratings Assigned to Texas’ Service American Indemnity Co.
 - Dealing with It: Texas’ Never Ending Hail Problem
 - 20 Accused of Stealing Heavy Equipment Worth $765K in Texas
 - Louisiana’s Donelon Reminds Insurers of ‘Producer of Record’ Obligations
 - 3 New Property/Casualty Insurers OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
 - Texas’ Hotchkiss Insurance Programs Rebrands as Catapult Insurance Solutions
 - Houston Pharmacist Gets 5 Years in Work Comp/Chiropractor Scheme
 - Austin’s Employer Solutions Group Joins INSURICA
 - 2nd Worker Dies From Injuries in Texas Hospital Explosion
 - Texas Prosecutors Clear Karolyis in Sex Assault Suit; Nassar, Trainer Charged
 - Oklahoma Health Official Says State Is Ready for Medical Marijuana
 - A-MAX Auto Insurance Names Genest as VP of Sales and Operations
 
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