Greg Brandon has been appointed executive director of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). His appointment is effective March 9, 2020. Brandon succeeds Don Meyer, who has served as interim executive director of SLTX since October 2019. Meyer …
Texans should expect warmer weather, more wildfires and urban flooding, and increased impact from hurricanes through 2036 thanks to climate change, according to a new study from the Office of the Texas State Climatologist at Texas A&M University. The study …
The hospital system where an intensive care doctor was accused of ordering excessive painkiller doses for dozens of patients who died will be fined $400,000 for violating Ohio pharmacy law under a settlement announced on March 4. The Columbus-area Mount …
A southwest Louisiana contractor that provides nondestructive testing in Louisiana, Texas and Florida has paid $495,900 in back wages to 411 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said. Versa Integrity Group Inc. of Sulphur erroneously classified wages as per diem …
Three former athletes at the University of Michigan have filed lawsuits against the school, alleging that a late doctor sexually assaulted them while the men were members of the football and hockey teams in the 1980s. The lawsuits, which identify …
Two mobile units have been deployed to help residents who lost state driver’s licenses or photo identification in severe storms that ravaged Tennessee counties this week. Tennessee’s Department of Safety and Homeland Security said Wednesday that mobile units that can …
Moments after a tornado tore through his quiet Tennessee neighborhood, Darrell Jennings walked out his front door and heard screaming. The house next door – and many others – had been leveled to its foundations. Somehow the Jennings house suffered …
Austin Mayor Steve Adler declared a local disaster on March 5 that effectively cancels this year’s South by Southwest festival. The 10-day event was scheduled to begin March 13 and expects hundreds of thousands of attendees to fly in from …
Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Atlas Insurance Management of North Carolina, a company that works on the formation and management of captive insurance companies. The acquisition was part of Risk Strategies’ …
Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), a subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has entered into a partnership with independent risk management and insurance consulting firm Fisher Harris Shapiro, Inc. (FHS) to offer specialized protection against covered property perils to U.S. …