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 …
The organization that keeps track of excess and surplus policies sold in Texas says the number of E&S flood insurance policies in place in the state’s coastal counties declined after Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017. In the months after …
The Houston police chief says a citywide crackdown has led to a 75% increase in the number of people arrested for drunken driving in the first six months of this year. Chief Art Acevedo said that Houston police logged more …
Oklahoma State Rep. Lonnie Sims (R-Jenks) a before and after study of the recent catastrophic flooding that occurred in his state. Sims serves District 68, which includes Creek and Tulsa Counties.He has requested an interim study to conduct a state-level …
