Latest Texas Headlines
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Barred Video Leads Texas Court to Reverse Jury Finding in Workers’ Comp Suit
Mar 8 2018 // The Texas Supreme Court has disagreed with the decision of a lower court to exclude, without having watched it, a company’s surveillance video of an injured employee in a workers’ compensation case. Because it...
Texas Agencies TCOR, Legacy, MS&B Merge
Mar 6 2018 // New Braunfels, Texas-based TCOR Management announced a merger with Legacy Insurors Group LLC, and MS&B Bonds and Insurance Services LLC, effective March 1. The operations of these two entities will continue under TCOR...
Chemical Industry Calls for $14B Gulf Coast Storm Barrier
Mar 6 2018 // Chemical companies are pressing federal officials to spend billions of dollars on a coastal flood control system near Houston to protect petrochemical plants, oil refineries and shipping infrastructure from the next...
Managing Time Expectation for Claims Key to Keeping Homeowners Happy
Mar 6 2018 // Overall customer satisfaction among homeowners filing property insurance claims has reached a new all-time high, despite record-high property losses following a spate of hurricanes, earthquakes and fires in North America....
Zoning Changes Post-Harvey a Concern for Some Texas Homeowners
Mar 5 2018 // Some Southeast Texas homeowners have raised concerns about houses in neighborhoods flooded by Hurricane Harvey being changed from residential to commercial zones. Several displaced residents in Dickinson worry that...
Business Moves
Mar 5 2018 // Paragon Insurance Holdings, Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, Oak Hill Capital Partners Avon, Conn.-based Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC announced that Edgewood Partners Insurance Center and Oak Hill Capital Partners...
NFP Focusing on Organic Growth in Central Texas Expansion
Mar 5 2018 // Employee benefits and property/casualty insurance broker and consultant NFP traditionally has grown through acquisitions but as the global organization targets Central Texas for expansion it plans to use another strategy...
People
Mar 5 2018 // Austin-based workers’ comp insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has added Benjamin A. Siddons as vice president of business development. Siddons joins Texas Mutual with more than 15 years of experience in the...
TWFG Expands Flood Offerings in Texas via Lloyds of London Syndicate
Mar 2 2018 // The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) has expanded flood insurance products to the state of Texas in partnership with syndicated members of Lloyds of London, the agency announced. The “FloodPlus” insurance...
Harvey Survivors Critical of Texas Governor/FEMA’s Disaster Response Plan
Mar 1 2018 // This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/27/texans-left-limbo-gov-abbott-fema-use-harvey-reinvent-disaster-respons/. In the weeks immediately after Hurricane Harvey,...
Allstate: Collin County Is Texas’ Stormiest
Mar 1 2018 // Texas storms affected more Allstate insured homes in Collin County than any other part of the state over the past ten years. Allstate tallied the top 25 Texas counties affected by severe weather, identifying areas with...
Texas Stamping Office Now Accepting Online Payments; Announces Move
Mar 1 2018 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) announced that as of March 1 it is accepting electronic invoice payments. Payments may be made via credit card or Automated Clearing House (ACH) through the SLTX online...
6 Months After Storm, Texas Launches Harvey Recovery Funds Tracker
Feb 28 2018 // Texas has launched a public online tool to track incoming and outgoing funds for Hurricane Harvey recovery, six months after the storm hit and two months after The Associated Press reported that it did not have one. Gov....
Texas’ Combined Agents of America Adds 3 New Agencies
Feb 23 2018 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC, has added three new partner agencies to its network. The latest additions are: Patterson & Associates Insurance in Richardson, Texas; NP Dodge Insurance in Omaha,...
Texas Appeals Court Upholds $351M Award Against Credit Suisse
Feb 23 2018 // Credit Suisse said it would fight on after a Texas appeals court upheld a $351 million award against the Swiss bank over its role in a Las Vegas resort project whose finances collapsed a decade ago. The Texas Court of...
Midwest Battered by Deadly, Damaging Storms
Feb 22 2018 // Sandbags were holding back floodwaters in parts of Michigan as a storm system moved across several Midwest and Great Plains states on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain, snow and ice to the region. The weather has already been...
Texas Mutual Hires Redpoint’s Siddons as VP, Business Development
Feb 20 2018 // Austin-based workers’ comp insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has added Benjamin A. Siddons as vice president of business development. Siddons joins Texas Mutual with more than 15 years of experience in the...
TDI: Nearly 670K Property Insurance Claims Generated in Texas by Hurricane Harvey
Feb 19 2018 // Hurricane Harvey resulted in nearly 670,000 in combined personal and commercial property insurance claims to private insurers, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and the Texas Fair Access to Insurance...
Texas Appeals Court: Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 19 2018 // A Texas appeals court has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The Austin Court of...
People
Feb 19 2018 // Wholesale insurance broker and program manager, Midlands Management Corp., has added insurance professional Lori Covey to its team in Dallas. A 25-year veteran of the industry, Covey started her career on the retail side...
