Texas / South Central News for December 2018
- Texas Surplus Lines Industry Sees Rule Changes at Year’s End
- Louisiana Adds Jobs for 14 Straight Months
- Insurance Journal South Central’s Top Stories for 2018: Medical Marijuana, Weather Woes
- Texas Lawyer Indicted for Allegedly Fraudulent Hail Claim Lawsuits
- INSURICA Acquires Oklahoma, Texas Firms; Adds Tolentino to Construction Unit
- Death in the Oilfields: Boom Brings Mounting Risk of Death, Injuries
- Oklahoma Quickly Becoming a Hotbed for Medical Marijuana
- Oklahoma’s New License Plate Scanners Flag Uninsured 2,100 Vehicles
- Louisiana Governor: Tariffs Stifling State’s Ag, Petrochemical Industries
- Intoxicated Drivers Beware: Texas Troopers Are on the Lookout
- Houston’s Dean & Draper Insurance Acquires Bill Vawter & Co.
- DPS: 30 to 40 Vehicles Crash on Foggy South Texas Interstate
- Update: Louisiana Credit Union to Pay $110K in Retaliation Lawsuit Settlement
- Louisiana Has Second Lowest Non-Fatal Work Injury Rate, Officials Say
- USG Insurance Services Adds Cooper in Louisiana Branch Office
- Oklahoma Seeking Federal Disaster Aid Due to Nov. 3 Storms
- Feds Investigating Southeast Oklahoma Union Pacific Derailment
- Oklahoma County to Pay $175K to Settle Discrimination Lawsuit
- Study Shows Arkansas Auto Insurance Rates Lowest in South Central Region
- Not all Texas Coastal Residents on Board with Proposed Storm Barrier
- Texas Lawmaker: Build Casinos on Coast to Subsidize Wind Insurance
- Former Texas Insurance Agent Indicted for Scamming Elderly Woman
- Jury Hits Ex-Cowboys Player, Nightclub with $25M Verdict in DUI Death
- Georgia-Pacific to Pay $600K Fine, Spend $4.7M on Upgrades in Arkansas Settlement
- AM Best: Outlooks Revised to Stable for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies
- ICT: Central Texas October Flood Insured Losses Top $22M, So Far
- Texas Hurricane Harvey Rebuilding Commission: Storm Was a ‘Wakeup Call’
- Lawsuit: Drilling Company Knew Oklahoma Rig Was Unsafe Before Explosion
- Austin Agents, Texas Surplus Lines Assoc. Donate $2,775 to Food Bank
- Rules for Marijuana Edibles Approved by Oklahoma Health Board
- Spicer Joins Oklahoma Agents Group as Workers’ Comp Program Account Manager
- Wet Harvest Leads to $77M Loss for Arkansas Soybean Farmers
- Texas Agency, The Nitsche Group, Named to Baylor’s Family Business Hall of Fame
- 4K Texas Businesses Share $3M in Early Qualifier Dividends from Texas Mutual
- USG Insurance Services Adds Guidry in Covington, Louisiana
- Arkansas Panel OKs Restrictions on Dicamba Herbicide Use
- ProAg Adds Borner, Piechowski, Schaefers to Leadership Team
- Dallas’ RiskPro Global Partners Acquired by Risk Strategies
- Arkansas Jury Awards Woman $3M in Suit over Escalator-Mangled Toe
- WCRI: Texas Workers’ Comp Medical Costs Per Claim Decreased Since 2014
- Texas Water Board: Cost to Curb Flooding over 10 Years – $31.5B
- Arkansas, Oklahoma Still Recovering From Last Week’s Tornadoes
- Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ Dealer Associates Inc.
- Texas DWC: Firefighters’ Cancer-Related Workers’ Comp Claims – and Denials – an Emerging Issue
- Texas Mulling Restrictions on Wastewater in Oil Country as Quakes Increase
- Program Offering to Buy Out Louisiana Homeowners in Floodways
- 2018 Texas Surplus Lines Premium Numbers Surpass 2017 Total
- Investigators: Driver Fatigue Contributed to Deadly 2016 Texas Bus Crash
- Only a Fraction of Patients Benefit from Medical Cannabis under Texas Law
- Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates to Go Down in Louisiana
- Dean & Draper Insurance Acquires Houston’s Painter Reichman & Co.
- McClelland & Hine Names Brooks Director of Business Development in San Antonio
- Charter Bus Crashes in Arkansas; 1 Child Dead, 45 Hurt
- 3 Oil Companies Settle in Class-Action Suit over Oklahoma Earthquakes
- Texas Senate Panel: Feds Paid Most of Harvey $2.7B Recovery Cost so Far
- NSM Acquires Louisiana’s KBK Insurance Group
- Several Injured in North Texas School Bus/Car Accident
- Oklahoma Ruling Could Set Precedent for Marijuana Use in Work Comp Cases
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