Eight Good Reasons to Get Your Database Efforts Underway The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an interactive e-mail — even talk of demographics …
Risk Management Strategies Based on Emulating Animals in the Jungle With such events as wildfires, the subprime mortgage fallout, and mergers and acquisitions, the corporate world can at times seem like a jungle. No one knows that better than author …
A recent test of the Texas Auto Insurance Verification Program (TexasSure) found that 25.5 percent of the vehicles stopped in the test area — Travis County and parts of nearby Hays and Williamson Counties — are uninsured. It is estimated …
Allstate and State Farm are raising their auto rates in Texas. State Farm filed with the Texas Department of Insurance increases of 2.4 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively, for its two auto insurance subsidiaries, State Farm Mutual and State Farm …
In early August 2008 the U.S. Department of Transportation extended for two years the cross border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the U.S. border commercial zones, and the …
Swimming in the Buff “You always find out who’s been swimming naked when the tide goes out. We found out that Wall Street has been kind of a nudist beach.” —Warren Buffett, who has been named the world’s richest man …
In a long running dispute between the Texas Department of Insurance and State Farm over homeowners insurance rates, the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin on Aug. 22 ruled that state regulators did not have the authority to issue a …
SLSOT Celebrates its 20th Anniversary This Year Phil Ballinger, executive director of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas, knows a lot about rhythm. He was a drummer with the Van Wilks Band long before he joined SLOT, and while …
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval has asked Louisiana’s commissioner of administration to review the validity of private attorneys’ contracts to represent the state attorney general in a case over the state’s Road Home hurricane recovery program. Duval said insurance company …
Swiss Re appointed Walter A. Bell chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corp. Bell, whose appointment with Swiss Re is effective Sept. 2, is currently insurance commissioner of the Alabama Department of Insurance, a position he has held since 2003. …
