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Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office to Accept ACH Payments in Early 2018
Dec 14 2017 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) announced it will begin supporting Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments, effective early first quarter 2018, as part of the new electronic filing system that will be...
Attorneys, Not Adjusters, Handle Claims at Texas Medical Malpractice Insurer, Capson
Dec 13 2017 // Austin, Texas-based Capson Physicians Insurance Co. announced it is providing in-house attorneys, rather than adjusters, to help facilitate claims for insureds. According to Capson Physicians Insurance President and...
Report: Nearly $60M in Texas Windstorm Insurer Hurricane Ike Claims Still Unpaid
Dec 13 2017 // The Houston Chronicle reports that several school districts, cities and other government agencies are still waiting for a Texas insurer to pay nearly $60 million in claims from Hurricane Ike, adding to more insurance...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner: Post-Harvey Deadline Extensions to End in January
Dec 12 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a bulletin announcing a date for the end of extensions for workers’ comp deadlines and procedures related to Hurricane...
Special Reuters Report: The High Cost of Building in High Flood Risk Areas
Dec 12 2017 // When Hurricane Harvey sent two feet of water rolling into this small community about 35 miles north of Houston, Alfredo Becerra had to flee his modest 1,500-square-foot house. Muddy floodwater submerged the furniture and...
Bridges Tapped to Lead INSURICA’s Texas Region
Dec 11 2017 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president. Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly...
Texas Pilot Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud in Gulf of Mexico Crash
Dec 11 2017 // A Texas pilot who survived a 2012 Gulf of Mexico plane crash and used an iPad to record his time in the water acknowledges it was insurance-related fraud. Theodore Robert Wright III pleaded guilty on Dec. 7 in Tyler to...
Harvey-Related Woes Linger on Some Texas Farms
Dec 11 2017 // For days after Hurricane Harvey flooded her Sour Lake, Texas, neighborhood, Deanna Coburn’s farm was silent, without its usual chorus of bleating goats and crowing roosters. The Beaumont Enterprise reports her...
Workers’ Comp Administrators Group Helps Texas DWC Employees Affected by Harvey
Dec 8 2017 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Ryan Brannan has thanked members of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators (SAWCA) for the generosity and goodwill they’ve shown to...
Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Exceed $5B at November’s End
Dec 8 2017 // Surplus lines premium recorded through the end of November rose to $5.04 billion in Texas, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). This total represents a year-to-date increase of 6 percent over the...
Texas’ Harris County OKs Post-Harvey Flood Construction Rules
Dec 7 2017 // Officials in a Texas county devastated by Hurricane Harvey have approved new regulations on building construction in flood-prone locations, rules they touted as the nation’s toughest for a major metropolitan...
Texas Company Earns Safety Award from Workers’ Comp Division
Dec 7 2017 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation has recognized Lauren Concrete for exemplary workplace safety programs and low rates of work-related injuries and illnesses at its Brenham, La Grange, and Waller...
Poll: Many Harvey Victims Say They Still Need Help
Dec 6 2017 // More than three months after Hurricane Harvey walloped Texas, many affected residents say they’re still not getting help they need and President Donald Trump is getting low marks for his handling of the disaster,...
Texas Mutual Builds New Workers’ Comp Health Care Network – WorkWell, TX
Dec 4 2017 // Workers compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., plans to launch of its own health care network for policyholders, called WorkWell, TX. Within this new network, all aspects of claims and care will be managed by...
Researchers Find Dangerous Bacteria in Water Wells Near Texas Fracking Sites
Dec 4 2017 // Two new studies from University of Texas at Arlington researchers show harmful bacteria levels in groundwater near hydraulically fractured gas drilling sites. The studies published in the peer-reviewed journal Science of...
Nearly 894,000 Texans Apply for FEMA Harvey Aid
Dec 4 2017 // Nearly 894,000 people in Texas met this week’s deadline to register for federal disaster assistance to help them recover from Hurricane Harvey, with more than $1.4 billion in funding approved so far, the Federal...
La Nina Adds to Wildfire Threat in South Central, Plains States
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth. In...
Study: North Texas Quakes Spurred on Faults Dormant for 300M Years
Dec 4 2017 // Earthquakes that have swarmed North Texas in recent years occurred on faults awakened by human activity after they had been dormant since dinosaurs roamed the area, according to a new university study. There have been...
Surplus Lines Premium Up for the Year in Texas
Dec 4 2017 // Texas has recorded $4.6 billion in surplus lines premium through the end of October 2017, a 6 percent increase over the same period in 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). At the annual...
Texas Officials: At Least 1 Roadway Death per Day Since 2000
Dec 4 2017 // At least one person has died on Texas roadways every day since November 2000, state transportation safety officials say. The Texas Department of Transportation reported that from Nov. 7, 2000, through Nov. 7, 2017,...
