Texas Green Industry Workers?EUR??,,????'??? Comp. Board Named

DALLAS, Texas?EUR??,,????'??+The Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, Inc. (HIA), a provider of insurance services to landscape contractors and other specialty industries in Texas, announced April 6, 2004 that Johnette Taylor, Greg Walsh and Candy Atkins will make-up the company's board of directors for the newly formed Texas Green Industry Workers?EUR??,,????'??? Compensation Group (TGI). The TGI group, underwritten by Texas Mutual Insurance Company, includes growers, landscape contractors, nurseries, and other green industry businesses. TGI asserts it will provide qualifying members a competitive option for workers?EUR??,,????'??? compensation coverage. "I am excited about the opportunities on the horizon for the Texas Green Industry WC Group, and believe we have selected a very strong group to serve on the board," remarked Doug Hotchkiss, president of the Hotchkiss Insurance Agency. About the Board Johnette Taylor, a licensed landscape architect, is president of Roundtree Landscaping, Inc., Dallas, Texas, a full service design/build firm she founded in 1984. She earned her BA in landscape architecture degree from Louisiana State University in 1981. Prior to founding Roundtree Landscaping, she served as corporate secretary/treasurer and landscape designer for Rosedale Nurseries. Ms.Taylor is a licensed irrigator and a certified irrigation auditor in Texas. She?EUR??,,????'???s an active member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Associated Landscape Contractors of America, and the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association (TNLA). She chairs the TNLA education committee and was recently elected chairman of the TNLA?EUR??,,????'???s Dallas region. She also serves on the Dallas Arboretum Gardens and Grounds Committee. Greg Walsh is a CPA and chief financial officer of tree town U.S.A., one of the largest producers of container grown trees in the United States, with 2,500 acres of growing facilities in Texas and Florida. Mr. Walsh has over 20 years of workers?EUR??,,????'??? comp. risk management experience in such diverse fields as the green industry, oilfield service and aviation. Candy Atkins is operations manager for the commercial division of HIA in Dallas, Texas. She joined the agency in 1990. She is certified as an insurance counselor and insurance service rep., with more than 20 years experience in the insurance industry. The Hotchkiss Insurance Agency was founded in 1975. The Texas Department of Insurance approved HIA?EUR??,,????'???s application to form and maintain the Texas Green Industry Workers' Compensation Group in January of 2004. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, HIA has statewide locations in Houston, San Antonio, Bryan/College Station, Fredericksburg, Kerrville, and Boerne. For more information, visit www.hotchkissins.com