Texas News

People Bob Amado, president of Colemont’s Northern California offices, has retired, effective Jan. 1, 2006. Doris Barnett has been named...

E&S Market

The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this niche-based market, which has...

California Insurance Industry

I nsurers are cultivating California’s economy. In fact, the insurance industry benefits “the economic security of California and its citizens...

Emerging Risks

Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure, are basic components of an insurance...

Compensation overall

Last year was not a big year for raises in independent insurance agencies as salaries in many agencies across the...

News Currents

Coalition Against Insurance Fraud lists 2005’s worst insurance con artists Scalpel-wielding surgeons and klutzy grave robbers were among the eight...

News Currents

Court sides with Allstate in Rita evacuee expenses case A state district judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled Allstate will...

News Currents

Insurers seek bond measures for Texas catastrophe fund Taking a cue from the Scout motto “Be Prepared,” a group of...