Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple expects lawmakers to allocate at least $20 million to the Lousiana Fortify Homes Program during the legislative session that begins on Monday. The funds would applied to the program for use in the next fiscal …
Before it burned to a pile of ashes, Melanie McQuiddy’s house on the outskirts of Canadian was her family’s home base. Her daughter and grandchildren flocked there for holidays. At Christmastime, she put a tree in every room and transformed …
Xcel Energy on Thursday acknowledged its involvement in the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which started last week and quickly became the largest wildfire in state history, burning more than 1 million acres. “Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that …
A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died Tuesday while fighting a house fire, authorities said. The house fire that Fritch Fire Chief Zeb Smith, 40, …
CANADIAN — Farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle lost livestock, buildings and infrastructure in the wildfires still raging through the region. Now they’re looking to rebuild. More than 100 people packed a room at the Hemphill County Exhibition Center on …
Brown & Brown announced that it has acquired the assets of Hillco Insurance. Hillco was established by Hunter Hill in the Dallas metropolitan area to serve the personal and commercial insurance needs of the expansive Dallas business community. The Hillco …
Lerant Joins South & Western as Business Development Specialist Lou Lerant recently joined South & Western Insurance as a business development specialist. South & Western Insurance, based in Addison, Texas, is a member of the Bridge Specialty Group. Lerant will …
SpaceX’s bid to keep its lawsuit against the US National Labor Relations Board in Texas was denied by a federal appeals court, a setback for Elon Musk’s aerospace company in its battle against the agency. The aerospace company sued the …
FRITCH — Many Panhandle residents whose dwellings and possessions burned in the region’s ongoing wildfires may never financially recover for one simple reason: Their homes weren’t insured. “A lot of the people who have lost a home had no insurance,” …
Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisitions of two Louisiana-based middle-market agencies, Querbes & Nelson (Q&N) and Louisiana Companies. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. With the closing of …
