Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired BluePeak Advisors LLC, headquartered in Bartonville, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With employees operating across the United States, BluePeak Advisors assists health plans, employers, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmaceutical companies and …
Mike Jacoby has joined the Dallas-based team of Risk Consulting Partners (RCP) and will lead the firm’s rapidly growing healthcare practice. Jacoby brings to RCP more than 35 years of experience as an innovator and thought leader, having worked for …
Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and could strike Louisiana as a hurricane Saturday, causing almost $1 billion in damage and worsening flooding in New Orleans. The system, which was about 95 miles (153 kilometers) southeast of …
Waukee, Iowa-based insurance services firm, Holmes Murphy, has added Don Harrison as vice president of Business Development for South and Central Texas. Based in Houston, Harrison will lead Holmes Murphy’s business development and client relationship services. He brings more than …
New Orleans is under the threat of floods from two fronts as the Mississippi River could jump to its highest point in at least 90 years. The city is facing flood waters coming down the Mississippi from the U.S. Midwest …
U.S. oil prices have climbed 3% as more major oil producers shut production and withdrew staff from offshore platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as a storm threatened oil-producing areas. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the third largest producer in the …
Texas-based managing general agency and surplus lines broker, LP Risk, has acquired the assets and operations of Houston Surplus Lines, an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage. Houston Surplus Lines team will become a part of LP Risk and will expand …
The number of Oklahoma earthquakes registering a magnitude of 3.0 or greater is on pace to decline for the fourth straight year after state regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and reduce injection volumes …
From April through mid-June, more than 230 claims stemming from flooding of the Arkansas River and its tributaries in Arkansas had been filed with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In an announcement …
As companies work to design fleets of commercial trucks that won’t need a human in the driver’s seat, Louisiana lawmakers have written rules of the road that self-driving vehicles will need to follow to truck commerce across the state. Though …
