Archived News & Announcements

Previous news and happenings from RISC.

September 13 , 2006

New Team Member, Denise Cascio, ACSR

Denise Cascio, ACSR has joined RISC as Senior Associate to Mike Lehde. Denise has many years experience in the insurance industry and as Mike's assistant, is ready to assist you with his accounts.

July 12, 2006

New Team Member, Tammy Summers

It is with pleasure that we, at RISC, announce that Tammy Summers has joined us in our Transportation Department. Tammy has over 25 years experience in commercial auto and transportation underwriting. After several years with American Pathfinders in the 70’s, she left to become the underwriting manager for Commercial General Agency in Plano. She moved after 14 years with CGA to London American where she originated, managed and administrated their long haul trucking program.

Tammy will be actively writing with our current markets while working with management to put together a long haul facility for RISC in the near future.

July 10, 2006

Kate Innocent Joins RISC

Kate Innocent has joined RISC as a Senior Associate working with Donna Schoenemann in Property Brokerage. Kate has 6 years experience in the insurance industry. She began her career as a life insurance claims examiner at AEGON DMS in Plano, and has spent the last 3 years working with small business P&C accounts at The Combined Group in Carrollton. She and her husband Travis live in North Dallas with their three completely insane cats. We are very pleased to welcome Kate to the RISC team.

January 06, 2006

Thank You For Making 2005
RISC's Best Year Ever

An announcement from Bill Staub

RISC, Inc. has just completed the most successful year in our company's history. This is the result of incredible teamwork with our staff, our markets, and our retail partners. I believe we have put together the finest group of employees who like their jobs, are good at what they do, and have set realistic goals to be one of the elite wholesale operations in the Southwest.

We have made both a procedural commitment and a substantial financial commitment to stay on the cutting edge of technology in order to give the best service available. Our recent partnership with a leading supplier of "paperless" software and services will allow most of our staff to perform their jobs as effectively from home as they can from the office.

We are extremely excited about what lies ahead for us in 2006 and hope that you too will want to join forces with us during these exciting times. Allow us the opportunity to help you achieve outstanding success as well.

Bill Staub, President of RISC, Inc.
June 6, 2005

Press Release – Roger Herron

RISC, Inc is pleased to announce that Roger Herron has joined the firm as a Senior Underwriter in their MGA Department. He will be focusing on small to mid-size property, general liability, liquor liability, inland marine, auto, and umbrella coverage’s. Roger began his career with Continental Insurance after obtaining his BS in Commerce and Industry. He obtained an Associate in Underwriting (AU) in 1998 and has over 18 years’ industry experience on the company, agency, and wholesale side.

Roger believes that service is of the utmost importance to clients, which makes him the ideal addition to RISC’s underwriting team. Roger‘s experience and reputation will help solidify this already successful
unit at RISC.

For more information contact: Risc Inc., 2001 Bryan Street, Suite 2900, Dallas, Texas 75201
214.954.0707 Phone - 214.954.0999 Fax

January 14, 2005

RISC, Inc. – Construction Facility Taking Off

Dallas based wholesaler, RISC, Inc. announced that it’s recently formed sub-contractor’s Liability facility has been a huge success. The facility has been set up to write GL and Umbrella coverage for 14 specialty contractors in both the residential and commercial fields.

President of RISC, Bill Staub, states that although they are currently writing between $1.5 million to $2 million in new premium a month, that “we have just scratched the surface of this market.” “With our territory running from Louisiana north to Canada and west, the long range potential for this program is simply astounding” according to Mr. Staub.

Bob Leonhart and Darwin Lucas, Senior Vice President’s of the Programs Department for RISC agree. Mr. Leonhart states that “in addition to General Liability and Umbrella, we’ve expanded the program for 2005 to include Workers’ Compensation and Automobile coverage. These added lines make us more desirable to retail agencies and insured’s alike.”

Mr. Lucas, states “our ability to use an exposure basis of payroll for these classes of business has given our agents a more accurate way to base their premiums. We have seen receipts escalating due to the cost of goods increasing monthly, and our clients have all agreed that using a payroll basis of rating is more cost effective. As a result, these competitively priced programs continue to increase our market share in these classes.”

For further information on this program you can visit the Program section of this website or call 1-800-725-7472 and ask for either Mr. Lucas or Mr. Leonhart.

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