A manufacturing facility in Texas has been fined $58,000 by federal regulators for exposing workers to safety hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Progressive Inc. in Arlington with 15 safety violations for exposing …
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the state reached an all-time high of more than 1.7 million persons employed in May. Commission officials say Oklahoma’s jobless rate fell to 4.8 percent from 5 percent in April. Statistics show 85,120 people …
LevelFirst a diversified wholesale broker and managing general agency headquartered in Dallas, has opened an Austin, Texas, office. Vivian Plein has joined LevelFirst to lead the Austin office. Plein has more than 10 years of excess and surplus insurance production …
Texas regulators have fined Loya Insurance Co. $300,000 for what investigators call unfair and deceptive business practices. The Department of Insurance also says Loya failed to file accurate information on rates for its 210,000 drivers in Texas. The company has …
Insured losses from the massive hailstorm that struck the Dallas area on Wednesday could reach as much as $2 billion, making it one of the most costly storms of its type in U.S. history, an insurance organization said on Friday. …
Portions of Dallas along with surrounding cities were hit with large hail and high winds on June 13 causing damage to vehicles, homes and businesses. Baseball size hail was reported in east Dallas and Grand Prairie, while golf ball size …
American Underwriting Managers, a surplus lines MGA with offices in Southlake and San Antonio, Texas, has added Gay Aulenbacher, as vice-president, director of Marketing. Aulenbacher has served in the insurance agency and surplus lines business in Texas for her entire …
A former BP Plc engineer who is the first individual to face criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been scheduled to face a jury trial on Feb. 25, a U.S. federal judge decided. Kurt …
The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) signed four new member agencies in the South Central Region in May. May’s new South Central members are: Morrow Insurance Group of Texarkana, Texas; McPeak & Associates of Edmond, Okla.; Darren Perry Agency of …
More than 20,000 homes and businesses lost electricity after storms rolled through parts of Texas. Utility officials say the largest outage area Wednesday was near Houston, in north Harris and Montgomery counties. CenterPoint Energy reports more than 15,000 customers without …
