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Texas Insurance Officials Fine Zenefits $550K for Noncompliance
Oct 14 2016 // The Texas insurance regulators have fined human resources software startup, Zenefits, $550,000 for its past use of unlicensed health insurance brokers. The Texas Department of Insurance said YourPeople Inc., more commonly...
Iowa Company Recalls Cookie Dough Sold to Blue Bell, Other Firms
Oct 12 2016 // An Iowa company is recalling the cookie dough it sold to Blue Bell Creameries and other food companies because it may be contaminated with listeria bacteria. Dough-maker Aspen Hills notified customers about the recall on...
Texas Mutual’s Gergasko Named Best Large Company CEO in Central Texas
Oct 7 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co.’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), Rich Gergasko, has been named the 2016 Best CEO of a large company in Central Texas by the Austin Business Journal. The ABJ has presented the...
Stamping Office General Counsel Named a ‘Super Lawyer’ by Texas Monthly
Oct 7 2016 // The general counsel for the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT), Alex Gonzales, has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer for 2016 by Texas Monthly. Gonzales, with Winstead PC, has served as general counsel for...
Former Texas Stamping Office Chair Receives NAPSLO Award
Oct 6 2016 // Texas-based The Parks Group’s Lana Parks is this year’s recipient of the Richard M. Bouhan Legislative Advocacy Award from the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO). Parks serves...
Outlooks Revised to Negative for Texas Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance, Subsidiary
Oct 5 2016 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a” of Texas Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co....
Texas Hospital Chain to Pay $513M to Settle Georgia Kickback Claims
Oct 5 2016 // Texas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. and two of its Atlanta subsidiaries have agreed to pay more than $513 million to resolve criminal and civil claims accusing the chain of paying kickbacks to steer pregnant Medicaid...
Woman Sues Former NFL and Texas Player Benson over Dog Attack
Oct 3 2016 // Former NFL and University of Texas running back Cedric Benson has been sued by a woman who claims she and a dog she was walking were attacked by Benson’s two Rottweilers in July. Lynn Comegys claims she was walking...
Texas Surplus Lines Office: Compliance Required After Essex/Evanston Merger
Oct 3 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) is alerting surplus lines insurance professionals in the state that due to the merger of Markel companies Essex Insurance Co. (Essex) into Evanston Insurance Co....
Business Moves
Oct 3 2016 // Evergreen, Sheridan Evergreen Insurance & Risk Management, a Monsey, New York, based insurance brokerage for investment real estate, has acquired the assets of Sheridan & Co. Group LLC and T.J. Sheridan &...
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Texas Mutual Virtual Reality Safety Training Module Wins Innovation Award
Sep 30 2016 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., announced it has accepted the Strategy Meets Action (SMA) Innovation in Action Award for its development of Safety in a Box, which uses virtual reality (VR)...
Granzow Joins Texas-Based RHSB as Vice President
Sep 29 2016 // Shellie Granzow has joined the Texas-based independent insurance brokerage firm, RHSB, as vice president of Personal Client Services and Private Client Practice Group. She brings with her an extensive background in...
Texas Insured Property Losses Setting Record in 2016
Sep 29 2016 // Damaging hail storms and wide-spread flooding have caused record setting losses for both homes and automobiles this year in Texas, according to a state insurance trade group. This year’s insured losses for the first...
Governor Declares 2 Texas Counties State Disasters Due to August Floods
Sep 28 2016 // Two South Texas counties have been declared state disaster areas following late-summer heavy rain and flooding. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 26 announced the disaster declarations for Atascosa and Wilson counties. The time...
ICW Group Now Writing Workers’ Compensation in Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia
Sep 26 2016 // ICW Group Insurance Companies has begun writing workers’ compensation four additional states—Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia. The San Diego-based company says the move bolsters its presence across the...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate for Q4 2016
Sep 26 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has set a rate of 4.11 percent for any interest or discount provided for in the state’s workers’ compensation statute. The rate is...
Supplier Denies Listeria Was in Product Shipped to Blue Bell
Sep 26 2016 // A supplier of cookie dough that Blue Bell Creameries blamed for a possible listeria contamination of some of its ice cream said that its product tested negative for the pathogen before it was sent to the Texas-based...
Texas DPS Pledges to Work on Preventing Profiling of Motorists
Sep 23 2016 // The Texas Department of Public Safety says it will regularly review traffic stop data to ensure minority motorists aren’t being stopped and searched at higher rates than white drivers. DPS now will review traffic...
Ag Disaster Declared in 24 Louisiana Parishes, 2 Texas Counties
Sep 23 2016 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has named 24 Louisiana parishes and two Texas counties agricultural disaster areas because of last month’s storms and flooding. Eleven parishes are primary disaster areas, and the...
