First United Bank in Durant, Oklahoma, has hired Howard McClure as the new president of Universal Insurance, a First United Company. McClure will be responsible for leading the First United Bank insurance teams throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Prior to joining …
Athens Administrators, a provider of third-party claims administration services, has acquired San Antonio, Texas-based 1-2-1 Claims Inc. 1-2-1 Claims Inc. is a licensed third-party administrator (TPA) company specializing in liability, self-insured workers’ compensation and non-subscriber benefit plan claims administration. The …
Three more oil producers pulled employees out of Tropical Storm Gordon’s path, and companies cut 9 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production on Tuesday as the storm churned toward an expected nighttime landfall. The storm, which …
Tropical Storm Gordon weakened after making landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border and lashing the U.S. Gulf Coast with high winds and heavy rain early on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Gordon is about 20 miles …
Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Cassie Brown has turned in the keys to a secure warehouse that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has used since 1992 to store injured employee claims. The 24,000-square-foot building that housed rows and rows of …
More than a year after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast, state environmental authorities have only just begun enforcement actions against a handful of companies deemed responsible for some of the most massive air and water pollution incidents reported …
Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore over the lower Mississippi Valley later on Tuesday or early Wednesday. Gordon, with top …
An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt’s foundation over the degradation of homes built in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The forthcoming lawsuit against Pitt’s Make It Right foundation will …
Amanda Tilford has joined Houston-based managing general agency, Myron Steves, to lead the company’s Claims operations. She will be responsible for operating the claims processing unit, including the timely and proper disposition of claims in accordance with bound coverage. She …
A massive dike to hold back storm-driven floods surging in from the Gulf of Mexico was first proposed after Hurricane Ike devastated the Houston-area coast a decade ago. Last year’s Hurricane Harvey disaster brought fresh enthusiasm for the languishing project …
