The auto insurer of last resort in Texas has filed rate increases for both private passenger and commercial auto coverage. The Texas Department of Insurance reported that the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association has filed rate increases of 4.9 percent …
Brightway Insurance has expanded its footprint in Louisiana with the opening of Brightway, The LeBlanc Agency, in Hammond. Brightway Insurance is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent stores throughout the country. Brightway, The LeBlanc …
Spring, Texas, along with more than two dozen cities in the state, will receive smoke alarms from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) courtesy of a program called We’re Out to Alarm Texas. Spring firefighters will distribute the 10-year lithium …
A Cherokee Nation official says medical marijuana won’t be legal on the Oklahoma-based tribe’s property even though the state’s voters approved use of the plant. The Cherokee Phoenix reports Cherokee Nation Assistant Attorney General Chrissi Nimmo says the tribe must …
Six of Louisiana’s coastal parishes will split more than $41 million to pay for projects aimed at fortifying communities against coastal land loss and rising seas. Ten projects in Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany and Terrebonne …
A proposed $6.95 million settlement has been filed to end a class-action lawsuit alleging Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy co-founders Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward conspired to rig bids on leases for land to explore for oil and natural gas in …
The National Hurricane Center is advising Louisiana and Texas, along with coastal areas of northern Mexico, to monitor a storm system in the Gulf of Mexico that has a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression. The NHS says …
San Antonio, Texas-based independent claims adjusting and third-party administration firms, IAS Claim Services, has appointed Walter Leddy as chief executive officer. Former CEO Larry Cochran will assume a new role as chairman of IAS. Leddy, a technology-enabled services veteran most …
It’s been nearly 10 years since Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, and government agencies are still working to complete recovery projects before a state-imposed deadline. Thursday marks a decade since Ike made landfall and swamped parts of the island city, leaving …
Texas State Rep. Ron Reynolds has turned himself in to authorities in Montgomery County to begin serving his year-long jail sentence. Reynolds, a Democrat from Missouri City, was convicted on misdemeanor charges for illegally soliciting clients for his personal injury …
