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AssuredPartners Acquires Hutson Insurance Group in Texas

AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired the Hutson Insurance Group located in Plano, Texas. The Hutson Insurance Group is a full-service insurance broker that has served the Plano and the North Texas marketplace for over twenty years under the leadership of Brian …

Brown & Riding Adds Pike as Property Broker in Dallas

Brown & Riding Insurance Services Inc. has hired Ryan Pike as a property broker in its Dallas office. Pike specializes in placing difficult manufacturing as well as Property and Inland Marine risks in the oil and gas sector. He in …

Texas Stamping Office: National E&S Insurance Premium Up 9.4% at Mid-Year

Excess and surplus lines (E&S) insurance premium recorded by the 15 managing service offices in the United States increased 9.4 percent as of the 2018 mid-year point, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reports. Total premium reported reached …

Baker Appointed Assistant VP at RHSB in Texas

Texas-based independent insurance brokerage firm, RHSB, has added Mike Baker as assistant vice president. He will be a part of the growing Commercial Property & Casualty sales practice. Baker has over a decade of experience assisting commercial clients with their …

Explosion, Fire at Oklahoma Disposal Well Injures 3

Central Oklahoma authorities say three people have been injured in an explosion and fire at a saltwater disposal well. Kingfisher County emergency management officials say the explosion occurred shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday at a saltwater disposal well south of …

Arkansas Approves Rules with Opioid Prescription Limits

An Arkansas panel has given final approval to regulations that will require doctors who prescribe high doses of opioid pain medication to follow guidelines meant to limit potential abuse, including exploring alternative treatments and limiting prescriptions. The Legislative Council’s Administrative …

Brown & Brown Subsidiary Acquires Texas MGA and Arkansas Affiliate

Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Loving and Etheredge Inc. d/b/a Texas Commercial Insurance Facilities (TCIF) and its affiliate, Arkansas Insurance Facilities Inc. (AIF). TCIF …

Texas Insurers’ Trade Group Honors Gerik with Raymond Mauk Award

The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has honored Mike Gerik, executive vice president at the Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., with the 2018 Raymond Mauk Leadership Award. ICT presented the Mauk Leadership Award to Gerik during its 26th Annual …

Arkansas Recovers $3.67M for Insurance Consumers in First Half of 2018

The Consumer Services Division (CSD) at the Arkansas Insurance Department has recovered $3,673,940 for Arkansas insurance customers in the first half of 2018, the agency reported. Recoveries are dollar amounts recovered for Arkansas consumers by CSD in excess of the …

Explosions, Fire at Texas Gas, Cylinder Company Spur Evacuations but No Injuries

Authorities say nobody has been hurt in several explosions and a fire at a gas and cylinders company in rural Central Texas. Austin County Sheriff Jack Brandes said the accident at Western International Gas & Cylinders was reported around 6 …

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