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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...

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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...

Houston’s Apartment Safety Programs Are Flawed, Study Finds

Feb 19 2018 // A report by the University of Texas School of Law has found that Houston’s programs designed to ensure apartment safety are “flawed, fractured and improperly managed.” The 16-month study released Feb. 6...

Texas Petro-Chemical Contractor Sued for Disability Discrimination

Feb 16 2018 // A blood disorder led to the unlawful firing of three laborers at a Texas-based petro-chemical contractor, federal officials say. the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged in a lawsuit that...

Former Texas Agent Gets Life Sentence for Insurance Scam

Feb 16 2018 // A former Lubbock, Texas, insurance agent has been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay back $810,000 to his victims, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) reported. Officers with the Texas Department of...

Federal Suit Alleges Texas Coach Helped Student Accused of Sexual Assault

Feb 15 2018 // A federal lawsuit alleges a Prairie View A&M University coach helped a male student accused of sexual assault flee Texas to avoid arrest. An unidentified female athlete filed the lawsuit in Houston. It accuses the...

Texas Family Awarded $8M for Body Missing from Funeral Home

Feb 15 2018 // A jury has awarded a couple $8 million after finding a San Antonio funeral home was negligent in the loss of their daughter’s body before she was to be cremated. Sharlotte and Timothy Mott were given $1.5 million...

Coastal Communities Hit by Harvey to Get $1B for Hazard Mitigation

Feb 14 2018 // Texas communities slammed by Hurricane Harvey can now apply for a share of a half-billion dollars in federal money that will cover everything from buying out flood-prone homes to building new seawalls and restoring sand...

Nearly 670K Property Insurance Claims in Texas from Hurricane Harvey: TDI

Feb 13 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...