Officials say a fire and subsequent explosion at a Georgia-Pacific paper mill in eastern Oklahoma injured five workers and left two firefighters with heat exhaustion. Muskogee County Emergency Medical Service operations director Ron Morris says four injured workers were taken …
Texas health officials have advised people not to fish or eat seafood from parts of some Houston-area bays as cleanup continues following last week’s tanker and barges accident and toxic leak. An official with the Texas Department of State Health …
Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit – Houma Field Office are asking for the public’s help in locating three people wanted for felony fraud in a case involving an alleged staged U-Haul vehicle crash. Two others …
A new feature allowing agents and brokers to indicate whether or not an insured is a purchasing group is now available within the SLTX Electronic Filing System (EFS), the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas reported. A “Yes” or “No” …
Chard Richard has joined Alliant Insurance Services as executive vice president and managing director in the employee benefits group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A veteran of the employee benefits industry, Richard has an extensive track record of success as a …
The Houston Ship Channel could remain under one-way travel restrictions all week following a collision between a deep-draft ship and a barge that spilled petrochemicals into the waterway, according to an official. About 9,000 barrels of gasoline spilled into the …
DeRidder, Louisiana-based workers’ compensation insurer, Amerisafe Inc., has named Andrew McCray as its new executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. McCray comes to Amerisafe with more than 30 years of insurance industry experience. Prior to joining Amerisafe, he was …
Louisiana’s lawmakers are on a labeling binge this year, pushing ahead with food classification restrictions on milk, rice, meat, sugar, shrimp and crawfish as they try to assist the state’s agricultural industries. The protectionist measures are provoking ridicule on social …
Officials in northeastern Oklahoma are preparing thousands of sandbags ahead of the planned release of the largest amount of water that has run through Keystone Dam in 26 years. The Tulsa World reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers …
A Texas-based wind turbine manufacturer has reached a settlement with federal officials over alleged violations of U.S. labor laws. GRI Texas Towers Inc. f/k/a Gestamp Wind Steel US Inc. (GRI), based in Amarillo, entered into a settlement agreement with the …
