Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added Hill County Insurance Agency Inc. in Hillsboro, Texas, as a member, bringing the group’s agency membership total to 42. CAA has agency members in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and plans further expansion …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced former insurance agent Richard Wallen has been arrested by the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit. Wallen has been charged with two felony counts. Wallen is accused of defrauding a Wynnewood couple out of more …
Beacon Hill Associates Inc. has opened a new regional office in Plano, Texas, and has added Brett Amick as assistant vice president. The company serves agents in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico. Beacon Hill describes itself as being experienced …
A former Vinita, Okla., insurance agent will pay more than $4,400 in restitution after pleading guilty to selling insurance without a license, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported. William Ronald Harlan, former owner of Harlan Insurance Services, pleaded guilty Aug. …
Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be drunk drivers, robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists. They got their producer licenses in states that did not ask them for their …
At an event today kicking off a nationwide anti-drunk driving enforcement campaign, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood released a new study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that shows an increasing trend among women driving under the influence …
Tejas American General Agency (TAGA), an independent privately-owned managing general agency based in the Austin, Texas, area, has recently added three new markets – Insurors Indemnity, Gotham Insurance Company and Accident Fund – which provide access to coverage for a …
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Utah and Virginia do the best job handling workers’ compensation injuries, while Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wyoming perform the worst. That’s according to the latest report card from the California-based Work …
A legislative task force has begun a study on how best to privatize CompSource Oklahoma, the agency that provides workers’ compensation insurance in the state. Members of a nine-member task force convened Aug 6. The task force was authorized in …
UMB Financial Corporation affiliate UMB Scout Insurance Services Inc. is acquiring Chapman-Sander, an independently-owned insurance agency in St. Louis, Mo., in an all-cash deal, UMB announced. Details of the transaction are not disclosed. The agency will operate as an office …
