Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feds Cite Texas Cancer Center For Patient Care, Safety Problems
Jun 14 2019 // A prominent cancer hospital in Houston will be subject to more aggressive federal oversight after authorities found the facility in violation of serious hospital requirements for patient care and safety. The clampdown on...
Texas Cleaning Up After Storms; Dallas Crane Collapse Victim Identified
Jun 12 2019 // Residents in North Texas began to come to grips Monday with the widespread damage left after a sudden thunderstorm bearing near hurricane-strength winds rolled through the area and collapsed a crane onto an apartment...
11 Texas Colleges to Share $1.1M in Safety Education Grants from Texas Mutual
Jun 12 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it is awarding $1.1 million in grants to 11 colleges across Texas to fund workplace safety courses for employers, workers and the general public. The company said it began its...
Thousands of Wind-Related Claims Filed in Texas After Weekend Storms
Jun 11 2019 // Following an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and damaging winds on June 9, thousands of wind-related claims have been filed in areas extending from Dallas through south central Texas, the Insurance Council of Texas...
How the Workers’ Compensation Industry Is Embracing Telemedicine
Jun 10 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
ISMIE Mutual OK’d Offer Medical Professional Liability Coverage in Texas
Jun 7 2019 // Medical professional liability insurer, ISMIE Mutual Insurance Co., has been approved as an admitted carrier in Texas. The company said Texas regulators have approved its rate and forms filing, so ISMIE is now able to...
Reported Surplus Lines Premium Breaking Records in Texas This Year
Jun 6 2019 // Surplus lines premium in Texas has consistently broken records each month in 2019, according to data recorded by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). For the first five months of this year, each recorded...
Plea Deal Signed by Texas Company Over North Dakota Oilfield Death
Jun 6 2019 // A Houston company has reached a plea deal in the October 2014 death of an Alabama man who died in an explosion while working in the North Dakota oil patch. A federal criminal complaint accuses C&J Well Services,...
Texas Transportation Agency: Distracted Driving Still a Problem
Jun 6 2019 // Approximately 1 in 5 crashes in Texas involves distracted driving, which continues to be a problem in the state even after a state law banned texting and driving in 2017, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)...
State Ban on Red-Light Traffic Cameras Signed by Texas Governor
Jun 5 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill into law banning red-light traffic cameras in the nation’s second-largest state. Abbott tweeted Saturday that he signed off on the ban, which takes effect Sept. 1. Such...
The Nitsche Group Hires Casanova as Insurance Producer for Central Texas
Jun 4 2019 // Giddings, Texas-based independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, appointed Joe Casanova as insurance sales producer for the Central Texas region. Casanova has worked in the insurance industry for nearly a decade,...
Man Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud Must Pay $26.4K to Texas Mutual
Jun 3 2019 // A man sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud must repay Texas Mutual Insurance Co. more than $26,000, a Travis County district court said. According to Texas Mutual, Ricky Allen Martinez of Sugar Land, Texas,...
CoVerica Acquires Texas’ Agape Healthcare Partners
Jun 3 2019 // Dallas-based CoVerica has expanded its presence in the medical professions arena with the acquisition of Agape Healthcare Partners L.P., an independent insurance agency headquartered in North Texas. Agape specializes in...
INSURICA Acquires First Texas Insurance Services in Arlington
Jun 3 2019 // INSURICA has acquired First Texas Insurance Services, based in Arlington, Texas. Trey Dacy and Bob Walch, principals at First Texas Insurance Services, and their team will join INSURICA. A third partner, Gary McNeil, along...
Texas Ranch Didn’t Protect Boys from Sexual Abuse, Lawsuit Says
Jun 3 2019 // A young man and a teenage boy have filed a lawsuit accusing the staff at a Texas ranch for at-risk youth of not protecting them from sexual abuse by older residents, an advocate for child abuse victims says. In recent...
Are Agencies Overpaying for Young Employees Today?
Jun 3 2019 // Memo to insurance agency owners seeking to onboard new employees: Expect to pay more, offer more and train more. Those trying to hire know that already. “What we’re seeing in particular in Texas, and I imagine...
Plumber Says ‘Safety Is at Risk’ After Texas Lawmakers Flush Plumbing Code
Jun 3 2019 // Plumbers in Texas will no longer be subject to state regulations after lawmakers this week flushed the state plumbing code and the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, a state agency that employed dozens and generated...
My New Markets
Jun 3 2019 // Parcel Delivery Companies Market Detail: Gladius Insurance Services LLC (www.gladiusins.com) covers packages for parcel delivery companies (Amazon type operations). Coverage available includes: general liability,...
People & Places
Jun 3 2019 // National Bermuda-based specialty insurer Sompo International Holdings Ltd. has hired Steven E. Grippo as senior vice president, where he will lead the unit’s U.S. Architects & Engineers practice. Grippo brings to...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Withdraws 10% Rate Increase Filing
Jun 3 2019 // By Stephanie K. Jones Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at a May 24, 2019, meeting of its board of directors to withdraw a 10% rate increase filed last year that was...
