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People Moves: Dunbar Joins CAC Specialty as VP in Houston; Alliant Adds Mahoney in Dallas

CAC Specialty Names Mike Dunbar as Vice President in Houston CAC Specialty has announced the expansion of its Houston-based Oil & Gas team with the hiring of Mike Dunbar, who recently joined CAC Natural Resources as vice president. Dunbar has …

Texas Metal Fabricator Cited for Exposing Employees to Hazards

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Texas metal fabricator for repeatedly exposing employees to fall, machine and other safety hazards. OSHA’s most recent inspection of Kyoei Steel LTD – operating as Vinton Steel …

Louisiana Proposes Fines Against 5 Insurers for Alleged Improper Activity After 2020 Storms

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has proposed fining five homeowners insurance companies a combined $764,750 following targeted market conduct examinations of their insurance activities between August 27, 2020, and June 30, 2021, a period in which hurricanes Laura, Delta and …

Arkansas Sues Hospital for Failing to Protect Sensitive Patient Information

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced last month a lawsuit against. Eastern Ozarks Regional Health System for failing to protect sensitive patient information, both person and medical, after the hospital closed. The suit alleges that the former Cherokee Village hospital …

23 Injured in Texas Storms; More Tornadoes Forecast in US

Nearly two dozen people were injured when tornadoes swept through central Texas as part of a storm system that was expected to spawn more twisters and damaging winds Wednesday. The storms caused widespread damage Tuesday in Salado, about 50 miles …

Lighthouse in Rehab in Louisiana But Could Trigger Another Assessment in Florida

Because Lighthouse Property Insurance Co. is domiciled in Louisiana, Florida’s insurance regulators probably won’t put the troubled company through the receivership and liquidation process in the Sunshine State. But that doesn’t mean the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association will be able …

AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Louisiana Farm Bureau

AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (Louisiana Farm Bureau) (Baton Rouge, LA). The …

EEOC Sues Paper Company for Disability Discrimination at Texas Location

International Paper, Co., one of the world’s largest producers of fiber-based products such as packaging materials and fiber pulp, violated federal law by discriminating against an applicant based on his disability, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

Keystone Adds Texas’ Boley-Featherson to Network

Keystone Insurance Group, a participant-owned insurance agency network, has named Wichita Falls, Texas-based Boley-Featherson to its growing network of agencies in the Mid-South region. Boley-Featherson was established in 1925, and has grown from a main-street agency to a commercial lines …

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Places Lighthouse Into Receivership

Weeks after Lighthouse Property Insurance announced it would stop writing new business in Florida, the insurer has been placed into receivership in Louisiana. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon placed Lighthouse into receivership last week in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court. Lighthouse …

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