When a fertilizer plant exploded in a small Texas town, killing 15 people and decimating homes and schools, it became Chris Connealy’s responsibility to stop anything like it from happening again. The state fire marshal has spent the last eight …
The family of the suburban Houston couple killed on Thanksgiving Day last year in a 100-vehicle pileup on a foggy stretch of Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas has settled a lawsuit it had filed. The Beaumont Enterprise reported details of …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Barmore Insurance Agency Inc. in Houston, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Barmore is an insurance broker providing retail and wholesale commercial property/casualty, employee benefits and risk management insurance products and …
Federal aid will head to Texas now that President Obama has declared a disaster area as a result of severe storms and flooding that hit the state during the period of Oct. 30-31, 2013. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Barmore Insurance Agency Inc. located in Houston, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1952, Barmore Insurance Agency (Barmore) is an insurance broker providing retail and wholesale commercial property/casualty, employee …
Texas prosecutors are trying a second time to imprison a teen who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for drunkenly driving his truck into four pedestrians, killing them all. Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon has asked a juvenile judge …
Questionable insurance claims rose by 38 percent in Texas from 2010 through 2012, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reports. Questionable claims (QC) are those claims that NICB member insurance companies refer to NICB for closer review and investigation based …
An industry group says Texas homeowners no longer are paying the highest insurance rates in the country, a distinction that now goes to Florida residents. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released its annual report showing that while premiums …
Swett & Crawford, part of the independent global wholesale and reinsurance broking group Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), announced the addition of Ben Young to its professional services practice group in Dallas office. Prior to joining Swett & Crawford, …
Houston-based Delta General Agency Corp. announced that Craig Moss has joined the property/casualty insurance wholesale broker as senior transportation underwriter. Moss has been in the insurance industry for 17 years, most recently with Brazos Specialty Risk Inc. in Dallas. He …
