Gary Fate and Sharla Martin of Hull & Company General Agency in Dallas are once again heading up the organization of 7UP’s Serving Up A Cure Celebrity Waiter Dinner, benefiting the Duchenne Dystrophy research efforts of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. …
InsurBanc, the federal savings bank developed by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) to serve agents and brokers, and their clients, won regulatory approval to expand its operations to 15 additional states—three on a full-service basis and …
Multiple rate hike requests from insurers and consumer concerns prompted Louisiana Governor Mike Foster to hire an advisor to assist him and the Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission (LIRC) in considering the rate requests. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that Foster …
A Travis County District Court found that a Houston company changed its name several times while trying to avoid prosecution for premium fraud, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. A.C. Lath & Plastering Inc., owned and operated by Martin Geserick …
Welcome to our 6th annual Program Directory issue, Volume I. The Insurance Journal has provided this guide for retail agents in Texas since 1996 in print and since 1998 online. The print edition is regional and published twice a year. …
It is said that Missouri is the “show me” state. If that’s true then most independent agents must be from Missouri because when it comes to technology solutions, agency owners and their producers and CSRs need to “see it to …
William Kronenberg III, founder and former CEO of ECS (Environmental Compliance Services), is slated to deliver the keynote address at the national summit meeting sponsored by the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The meeting is scheduled for October 21 – …
Now that the hard market has firmly set, it’s no secret that more and more standard property and casualty insurance carriers are seeking to stem losses by restricting coverage and revamping underwriting habits. As in previous periods of reduced capacity, …
Calling the medical fee guideline the most important element of the workers’ compensation legislation passed by the 77th Texas Legislature—House Bill 2600—Richard F. (Dick) Reynolds, executive director of the Texas Workers Compensation Commission (TWCC) told insurers to get involved in …
Insurance associations have been abuzz the past couple of weeks with regard to impending changes and new proposals to privacy regulations under Congress’ Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act (GLB). States have finalized details fulfilling one aspect of the GLB pertaining to …
