The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) has added 10 more branch agencies in its home state of Texas. TWFG now operates with more than 200 branch offices in Texas along with its headquarters in The Woodlands, just north of Houston. It …
The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF), a state-created entity that provides auto insurance to motorists who can’t get private-market coverage, plans to move its headquarters from Annapolis to Baltimore. MAIF said this week that in recent years, through enhancements in …
A tornado touched down in a sparsely populated area of Laramie County in southeast Wyoming on Sunday, the National Weather Service has confirmed. NWS says the tornado touched down around 1 p.m. about 7 miles east of Carpenter. The agency …
Independent national wholesale broker All Risks Ltd. said it has acquired Alive Risk, a division of California-based NAS Insurance Services that specializes in entertainment, media, special events, film productions and sports accounts. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Alive …
Hoping to reduce distracted driving, Arizona transportation officials are promoting the state’s 14 highway rest areas as safe places to make phone calls, send texts and check email while traveling. According to the state Department of Transportation, new “Safe Phone …
A luxury house has been left teetering about 75 feet above a Central Texas lake since the cliff the home is built on began collapsing. WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth reported that the house has been condemned and the owners evacuated …
Fresno, Calif.’s fire chief says investigators believe serial arsonists are behind a series of blazes across the city over the past month. Chief Kerri Donis said Tuesday that fire and police investigators are studying 21 fires that have occurred since …
A federal investigation is underway into an accident that killed an employee at the MGM Grand hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. KLAS-TV reports the employee was unable to get out of the way of a moving maintenance cart on …
The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Pat Arthur, shareholder at MHBT in Dallas, to serve as chairman for 2014-2015 during IIAT’s 117th Annual Conference and Trade Show in San Antonio. Peter Lauve of CBS Insurance LLP in Abilene …
A court-appointed investigator says a Louisiana fisherman should return more than $50,000 in BP oil spill claim money. Louis Freeh, the former FBI director appointed to investigate claims arising from the 2010 disaster, filed a federal court motion to force …
