Last month was the hottest December in Texas since at least 1889, state Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said. Gammon found that temperatures from Dallas through Abilene to Del Rio averaged 5 to 9 degrees above normal, according to a Texas A&M …
Dozens of firefighters and a fire boat battled a large wharf fire in New Orleans on Jan. 3. Fire officials say a large part of the wharf was engulfed in flames and it took 55 fire personnel to get the …
A Jonesboro, Louisiana fire chief and a Jackson Parish sheriff’s deputy have been arrested for insurance fraud over an alleged fraudulent vehicle crash that involved two Jonesboro Fire Department vehicles. In August 2021, Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit-Monroe …
The Justice Department announced that it has obtained a settlement agreement with the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, and two of its former employees to resolve allegations that they violated federal law when they denied housing …
Actuarial Risk Management Adds David Ingram and Max Rudolph as Senior Expertise Risk Management Consulting Actuaries Texas-based Actuarial Risk Management Ltd. has added David Ingram and Max Rudolph as senior expertise risk management consulting actuaries to lead the company’s new …
Zurich American Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, has completed the acquisition of Special Insurance Services, Inc., a Texas-based program manager that develops, underwrites, distributes and administers specialty insurance products for small and midsize employers. SIS, whose offerings …
Brown & Brown Lone Star Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Texas-based Harco Insurance Services. With roots dating back to 1969, Harco is a full-service, independent retail insurance …
Two women have sued the operator of a Louisiana salt mine where a roof collapse killed their husbands a year ago. Genee Romero and Alexandra Patin said in nearly identical lawsuits that Cargill Inc. officials and supervisors ignored both the …
Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients, and the state will tweak its calculations for state income taxes as more than two dozen new laws take effect Saturday with the start of the new year. …
SafePoint Insurance Co. will assume 30,000 Louisiana homeowners policies from two insolvent insurers, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced Dec. 29. The 19th Judicial District Court approved terms of the takeover, which is retroactive to Dec. 1. The Louisiana Department of …
