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Tornadoes Survival Tips from Texas to Nebraska
May 11 2016 // Storms swept through the nation’s midsection Monday, spawning numerous tornadoes. While tornadoes can form any time weather conditions are right, the area from Texas to Nebraska typically sees tornadoes between April...
Two-Car Crash On Rainy Texas Highway Kills 5
May 11 2016 // Five people are dead following a two-car crash on a rainy Texas highway on Mother’s Day. The Texas Department of Public Safety tells the Austin American-Statesman it happened Sunday afternoon near the town of...
Voters in Texas Capital Keep Fingerprinting for Rideshare Drivers
May 10 2016 // Fingerprinting drivers for ride-hailing companies must continue in Texas’ capital city after voters rejected a $9 million campaign by Uber and Lyft to overturn the safety measure. Both Uber and Lyft threatened to...
Pilgrim’s Pride in Texas Expands its Recall of Cooked Chicken Products
May 9 2016 // Pilgrim’s Pride in Waco, Texas is expanding a 5 million pound recall that federal food safety regulators say includes a variety of chicken products potentially contaminated with foreign materials. Friday’s...
Minnesota NFL Star Donating $100K to Flood Relief in Texas Hometown
May 6 2016 // Adrian Peterson grew up in Palestine, Texas, and has felt the support of its people as he rose to prominence in the NFL and when he endured the hardships that followed. Now, in his hometown’s hour of need, the...
U.S. Insured Catastrophe Losses from 13 Events in Q1 Add Up to Worst in Decade
May 5 2016 // Catastrophe activity in the U.S. led to $3.8 billion in insured losses in 29 states during the 2016 first quarter, with much of the damage hitting Texas. Those events were the worst in a decade in terms of frequency and...
Texas Insurer Group Awards Scholarships to 27 Students
May 5 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships to 27 insurance and risk management students at six Texas universities. The students attend...
Lockton Aligning Texas Operations into Two Business Teams
May 4 2016 // Lockton announced on Wednesday that it will create two new business teams to align its Texas operations. Lockton’s Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth property/casualty operations will combine into a single...
IMA Financial Group Acquires Waldman Bros in Dallas
May 4 2016 // The IMA Financial Group Inc. has acquired Waldman Bros, a Dallas-based insurance brokerage offering commercial insurance solutions, employee benefits and high-net-worth private client insurance expertise. The subsidiary...
TDI: Back-to-Back Texas Storms Prompt Questions on Deductibles
May 3 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported it has been getting questions about deductibles after back-to-back storms hit the North Texas area. Insurers have the ability to make decisions on deductibles on a case-by-case...
Teens Ejected from Carnival Ride in Texas; 1 Killed, 1 Hurt
May 3 2016 // One teenage girl was killed and another was injured when they were ejected from a whirling ride at an El Paso church carnival. The girls were at a parking lot carnival marking the annual Dia de los Ninos holiday at St....
Flash Floods Overwhelm East Texas Town, 6 Deaths Reported
May 2 2016 // In less than an hour early on April 29, more than 7 inches of rain had accumulated at the water treatment plant in Palestine, Texas. The flash-flooding that occurred as a result is blamed for six fatalities. Palestine...
Texas-Based Agency Partnership Reports Solid Growth in 2015
May 2 2016 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that it produced $96.3 million in total property and casualty revenue in 2015, compared to the $92.2 million in total revenue produced in...
Workers’ Comp Market Share: South Central States
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation insurance markets in South Central states are relatively stable and are experiencing a drop in rates across the board. However, reforms made in Oklahoma in 2013 continue to be challenged in...
April Flood Among Houston’s Most Severe Non-Tropical Cat Events
May 2 2016 // Major flooding in the Houston metropolitan area that began on Sunday, April 17, 2016, and continued throughout the week is expected to result in billions of dollars in losses, both insured and uninsured. According to...
San Antonio Hailstorm: Costliest Ever in Texas?
May 2 2016 // A hailstorm that covered a swath of nearly 70 miles hit the San Antonio area on April 12 and is estimated to become the costliest such storm in Texas history, an insurer trade group says. The storm was concentrated in the...
People – South Central
May 2 2016 // LevelFirst, a wholesale insurance broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., appointed Rhonda Fomby as vice president. Fomby assumes the responsibility of underwriting new business opportunities with the...
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Business Moves
May 2 2016 // Alliant, Andre-Romberg Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz,...
Texas Mutual Awards $600K in College Education Grants
Apr 29 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has awarded a combined $600,000 in grants to College of the Mainland in Texas City, Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, El Paso Community College, Kilgore College, Midland College and...
