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Texas Woman Claims Injuries Caused by Takata Airbag, Sues Honda

Nov 2 2016 // A Texas woman has sued American Honda Motor Co Inc. and the U.S. subsidiary of airbag maker Takata Corporation for at least $1 million, claiming that she was badly injured in a low-speed car accident because the propellant...

Confie Acquires Texas Auto Insurance Agency

Oct 26 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, has acquired Hulme Corp., dba Alamo Auto Insurance of East Texas. Founded in 2001 and based in Tyler, Texas, Alamo Auto focuses on providing...

1.8 Million Western U.S. Homes at Extreme or High Wildfire Risk, Report Shows

Oct 26 2016 // Things haven’t gone as bad as they could have so far in 2016 coming off last year’s record-setting wildfire season in the Western U.S., according to a report out today detailing wildfire risks to properties in...

Exxon Heads for Courtroom Faceoff With New York in Climate Change Probe

Oct 25 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances. New York Attorney General Eric...

Texas Fines Zenefits $550K for Using Unlicensed Brokers

Oct 24 2016 // 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., known as Zenefits,...

Rodeo Promoter Resolves Lawsuits Against 2 Texas Cowboys Over $1M Prize

Oct 21 2016 // Lawsuits alleging two calf ropers rigged a 2015 Texas rodeo to share a possible $1 million bonus prize have been dismissed following undisclosed settlements. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports settlement details...

New Texas ‘Two-Step’ Program Aims to Simplify Workers’ Comp Disputes

Oct 19 2016 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking a promising pilot program statewide to help simplify and speed resolution of some disputes. A pilot started last year splits up related claim issues so that a...

In Safety Push, Texas Troopers Riding School Buses

Oct 18 2016 // Some Texas troopers are giving up patrol cars and instead ride school buses in a child safety effort. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the plan is part of National School Bus Safety Week, which began Monday and...

Texas DWI Cases at Risk as Lab Expert’s Credibility Questioned

Oct 17 2016 // Thousands of DWI convictions in North Texas could be jeopardized after the testimony of a state forensic scientist recently came under scrutiny, according to a newspaper report. Christopher Youngkin was involved in a 2013...

Texas Health Clinic Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp, Insurance Fraud

Oct 17 2016 // The owner of a Houston health clinic pled guilty to insurance fraud after billing for medical services – often provided to injured employees – despite having no licensed medical staff at the clinic, the Texas...

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 &...