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TDI: Former Texas Insurance Agent Who Faked Cancer Claims Sentenced
Feb 27 2019 // A Plano, Texas, woman pleaded guilty to insurance fraud for faking cancer claims to get more than $300,000 in insurance payments over two years, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Karissa White Coleman, a former...
Search Continues for Remaining Body at Texas Plane Crash Site
Feb 27 2019 // Authorities have been searching a bay off southeast Texas for clues about what caused a Boeing 767 cargo plane carrying Amazon packages to nose-dive into the shallow water, killing all three men on board. A north wind...
Insurance Council of Texas Seeks Leadership Award Candidates
Feb 26 2019 // Property/casualty insurance trade group, the Insurance Council of Texas, is seeing candidate nominations for its annual industry leadership award. Since 1998, has awarded its Raymond Mauk Leadership Award to an individual...
FedNat to Buy Maison Homeowners Insurance Operations from 1347 Holdings
Feb 26 2019 // FedNat Holding Co. has agreed to purchase substantially all of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings homeowners’ insurance operations, consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison Managers and ClaimCor in a 50/50 cash and...
Texas’ Harris County to Get $320K Federal Grant for Flood Tunnel Study
Feb 25 2019 // The county home to Houston is in line to receive a $320,000 federal grant to evaluate a flood protection strategy that involves building deep underground tunnels to move stormwater to the city’s ship channel. The...
TxDOT: Traffic Fatalities Increased in Energy Producing Regions
Feb 22 2019 // Booming energy production has brought jobs and economic gains to communities throughout Texas, but also an unintended consequence with a rise in traffic fatalities and injuries, the Texas Department of Transportation...
Texas Woman Sentenced for $46K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 20 2019 // A Texas woman owes just over $46,000 to the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurance carrier after being sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud in a Travis County district court. According to...
Winter Weather Advisories in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas
Feb 19 2019 // A storm system could yield snow and ice in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS issued a winter weather advisory for Tuesday through Wednesday morning for parts of western Texas,...
Woman Awarded $37M by Texas Jury over Seat Belts
Feb 19 2019 // A Texas jury has awarded more than $37 million to a woman who sued Honda after being paralyzed in a 2015 car crash. Sarah Milburn sued the automaker over its seatbelt design after her Uber driver ran a red light and the...
Texas Saw Fewer Traffic Fatalities 2018
Feb 18 2019 // After seven straight years of increases, the number of traffic fatalities in Texas fell in 2018, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reported. Traffic fatalities in the state dropped 4 percent from 3,720 in 2017 to 3,567...
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Feb 18 2019 // National MetLife has named Darla Finchum as head of the company’s U.S. property/casualty business, MetLife Auto & Home. Finchum had been serving in this role on an interim basis since last August. She will be...
Texas Bill Would Protect First Responders’ Work Comp Claims from Illegal Denials
Feb 15 2019 // A bill recently filed in the Texas House of Representatives would penalize insurers that illegally deny Texas first responders access to medical treatment for line-of-duty injuries covered under state workers’...
Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire Texas’ Myron F. Steves & Co.
Feb 15 2019 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Myron F. Steves & Co., an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in Houston, Texas, with additional offices...
Texas Indoor Gun Range Cited for Lead Exposure, Fined $214K
Feb 14 2019 // An indoor gun range in Killeen, Texas, has been cited and fined more than $214,000 for exposing employees to unsafe levels of lead, federal safety regulators said. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
State Farm Lowering Auto Insurance Rates in Texas
Feb 14 2019 // State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. is cutting its Texas auto insurance rates for the fourth consecutive time in a year, the insurer said. on Feb. 18, the overall personal auto rate will drop by 4.3 percent for 2.9 million...
High Insurance Rates, Escape Cited in Closure of Texas Prison Transport Firm
Feb 13 2019 // A private prisoner transport company has announced its closure after an MMA fighter accused in two killings escaped this month from one of its vans while being escorted to a jail in Texas. Texas Prisoner Transportation...
Fire Danger High in Oklahoma, Texas Panhandles
Feb 13 2019 // Forestry officials say conditions in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles are ideal for sparking wildfires. Oklahoma Forestry Service officials say danger levels are high Monday in western Oklahoma and the Oklahoma...
What? Women Pay More Than Men for Auto Insurance? Yup.
Feb 12 2019 // It’s a widespread belief that men pay more for automobile insurance than women. But that’s only true for young adults. Several studies in 2018 and 2017 revealed that women over 25, particularly those between 40...
Hamilton Reappointed to Lead Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel
Feb 12 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has reappointed Melissa Hamilton as the public counsel for the Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC). Hamilton has served as the public counsel since December 2017; her new term set to expire on...
Bus Video Shows Oklahoma Principal Used Phone During Texas Crash, Attorney Says
Feb 11 2019 // An attorney said video will show that an Oklahoma elementary school principal was using his cellphone when he crashed a bus filled with students in Texas, injuring 27 passengers — a charge the principal has denied. David...
