A former Wichita insurance agent accused of defrauding policyholders has struck a deal with prosecutors for a 42-month prison sentence. Jason Matthew Pennington pleaded guilty on Aug. 5 to two counts of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud. …
A south Louisiana flood authority is fighting a new state law aimed at retroactively killing a lawsuit filed last year over coastal damage attributed to oil and gas drilling. The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East argues in federal court papers …
The massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people last year is unlikely to meaningfully change regulatory or safety rules in Texas until at least 2016 under the latest bill offered Aug.5 by lawmakers tasked with scrutinizing the blast. The …
The city council in Houston gave the green light to smartphone-enabled car ride services on, removing legal uncertainty around popular services including Uber and Lyft. Separately, the city council in Dallas reviewed rules that could make the services legal there, …
Wesley C. (Tripp) Duesenberg, III, has been named president of Georgia-based managing general agency Southern Insurance Underwriters. He will succeed Wesley C. Duesenberg Jr., who has served as president for the previous 30 years and who will assume the position …
An accountant and industry executive has won the Republican nomination for Kansas insurance commissioner. Ken Selzer, of Leawood, emerged from a field of five candidates in the Aug. 5 primary. His nearest rival was Eudora health insurance consultant Beverly Gossage, …
A Seattle artist who designed a line of plush pet toys called “Angry Birds” is suing the company that sold them, saying it cheated her of millions of dollars when it reached a deal with the Finnish company that makes …
Crystal & Co. has appointed four executives in the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Shawn Ram has joined as executive managing director and western region head leading California operations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He also has …
Mississippi’s Adams County won’t have building codes. The Natchez Democrat reported that the Board of Supervisors voted to opt out of a zoning ordinance the state legislature had instructed counties to adopt. While the city of Natchez has building codes, …
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corp.’s three insurance premium finance subsidiaries — AFCO and Prime Rate Premium Finance Companies in the U.S., and CAFO in Canada — appointed James D. Williamson as North American sales manager. Williamson is based in the New …
