The Navigators Group Inc. has appointed Kevin P. Neumann as its Southwest regional vice president. Neumann will be located in Navigators’ Houston office and will lead the company’s direct insurance operations throughout the region. Neumann has 22 years of industry …
Attorneys for the state are set to defend Texas’ business tax. Claims that it violates the Texas Constitution are part of a case that began Oct. 24 in the Texas Supreme Court. A Boerne insurance adjustment firm, Allcat Claims Service …
More than 6,000 properties are sitting vacant in Arkansas because the owners are delinquent in paying their taxes. Little Rock television station KTHV reports that state Land Commissioner John Thurston says he wants to get those properties back on the …
The towering wall of billowing red dust roaring across the blue West Texas sky on Oct. 17 took Monroe Debusk back more than eight decades to the Dust Bowl years when he was growing up on his family’s cotton farm. …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is retaining his elected post. Donelon, a Republican from Metairie, sailed to re-election on Oct. 22. He defeated little-known Democrat Donald Hodge, who criticized Donelon for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations …
The first Mexican long-haul truck bound for the U.S. interior crossed at the international bridge at Laredo, Texas, Friday, carrying electronic equipment destined for suburban Dallas and fulfilling a controversial provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Business …
U.S. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., has announced more than $33.9 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to repair New Orleans’ damaged water system, Plaquemines Parish’s Venice Boat Harbor and Orleans …
North Little Rock, Ark., fire officials say a weekend fire at a storage unit facility has caused $1 million in damage to recreational vehicles and a boat and $35,000 to the building. Firefighters responded to the blaze on Northshore Drive …
Texas-based America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, has named Tiffany Reiner vice president, underwriting. With more than 15 years of commercial insurance experience, Reiner will have overall responsibility for America First Insurance’s corporate and regional underwriting …
Beginning Jan. 1, 2012, Oklahoma school teachers and state employees using HealthChoice for insurance benefits will be forced to fill their prescriptions through an out-of-state mail order pharmacy, according to state Sen. Patrick Anderson. The bureaucratic decision will result in …
