Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Judges Frustrated with Failure of Congress to Settle Obamacare Issues
Jul 10 2019 // The U.S. appeals court judges tasked with deciding the fate of the hot potato known as Obamacare had some choice words Tuesday for Congress and the Trump administration. “Why does Congress want the judiciary to be a...
Fewer E&S Flood Insurance Policies in Texas Coastal Counties Post-Harvey
Jul 9 2019 // The organization that keeps track of excess and surplus policies sold in Texas says the number of E&S flood insurance policies in place in the state’s coastal counties declined after Hurricane Harvey hit in...
Affordable Care Act’s Fate Could Rest with Appellate Court’s View on Technical Matters
Jul 8 2019 // The fate of Obamacare, the law that President Donald Trump campaigned on repealing and replacing, could hinge on several technical points of law as a federal appeals court prepares to decide whether it’s...
Brown Tapped as IIAT’s Account Manager of the Year
Jul 8 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Ronda Brown, with Texas Associates Insurors in Austin, Account Manager of the Year. This award is given annually to an account manager in Texas who exemplifies...
Kurtz Named Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Young Agent of the Year
Jul 3 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Wes Kurtz of Pathfinder/LL&D in Houston as its André P. Juneau ELITExan of the Year. This award is given annually to a young insurance professional in Texas...
Update: Voice Recorder Found in Texas Plane Crash; Victims Identified
Jul 3 2019 // Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport. Two crew members and eight passengers died...
Trident Marine, Signal Mutual Team Up on Waterfront Workers’ Comp in Texas, Louisiana
Jul 2 2019 // Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a specialty marine and offshore energy company and a part of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), is partnering with Signal Mutual on a workers’ compensation program for waterfront employers...
Swingle Receives IIAT’s 2019 Drex Foreman Award
Jul 1 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Frank Swingle Jr., founder and CEO of Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas, the 2019 Drex Foreman Award winner at IIAT’s Insurcon in Grapevine on June...
Texas Windstorm Insurer: $4.2B Available for 2019 Hurricane Season
Jul 1 2019 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for properties in counties along the state’s coastline says it has $4.2 billion in available funds as this year’s hurricane season gets underway. That amount includes a $111...
Business Moves
Jul 1 2019 // East Paquin Insurance Agency, OceanPoint Insurance Agency Paquin Insurance Agency has joined OceanPoint Insurance Agency’s organization in Rhode Island. Paquin Agency Principal Rick Paquin has accepted a position as...
Ray Elected Chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 28 2019 // Mark Ray of Borden Insurance Agency in Corpus Christi has been elected to serve as chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) for 2019-20. Additionally, Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas as was...
New Texas Law Addresses Surprise Medical Bills Received by Injured Workers
Jun 28 2019 // Texas lawmakers in the recent legislative session passed a bill addressing surprise medical bills injured employees have received after being treated at federal military facilities. Senate Bill 935 requires workers’...
Chemical Safety Board: Numerous Failures Led to 2014 Texas Dupont Plant Deaths
Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says the deaths of four workers at a chemical plant in Texas in 2014 were the result of a long list of safety failures in the plant’s operations. The CSB has released its final...
Texas Agency The Nitsche Group Relocates in Austin Area
Jun 27 2019 // Independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, headquartered in Giddings, Texas, has relocated its office in the Austin area. Previously at 12345 N. Lamar, Suite 190 in Austin, the office is now located at 893 North IH...
Signal Mutual, Trident to Offer Workers’ Comp for Marine Industry in Texas & Louisiana
Jun 25 2019 // Signal Mutual, a nationwide provider of Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act coverage, has partnered with Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a unit of Ryan Specialty Group to offer workers’ comp coverage...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Funded at $4.2 Billion for 2019 Hurricane Season
Jun 24 2019 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for properties in counties along the state’s coastline says it has $4.2 billion in available funds as this year’s hurricane season gets underway. By comparison, at the start...
Ghost of Harvey Looms Large as 2019 Hurricane Season Gets Underway
Jun 21 2019 // Compared with 2017, last year’s hurricane season was a relatively quiet one for the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Texas, with major U.S. storm systems such as Hurricanes Michael and Florence staying well to the...
Texas Calls for 2018 Catastrophe Data on Commercial Property, Business Insurance
Jun 20 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued special data call to companies that wrote direct commercial property or businessowners insurance in Texas and to certain farm mutual insurance companies that wrote...
Houston Skies May Darken Again as Tank Farm Disaster-Site Teardown Begins
Jun 20 2019 // The company behind the four-day chemical blaze that cast a black plume over Houston earlier this year is preparing to destroy one of the tanks at the facility, raising the risk that the site could see “flash”...
Federal Officials Looking at Flood Issues in Review of Texas Derailment
Jun 19 2019 // Investigators will consider storm-related flooding to help determine what caused an April 24 freight train derailment in North Texas that sent 25 tanker cars off the tracks. The National Transportation Safety Board on...
