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Blue Bell: Ice Cream Safe Despite Potential Concern
Jan 13 2016 // Blue Bell Creameries is seeking to reassure customers that its ice cream in safe, even as the Texas company tries to determine whether listeria has again been found at one of its plants. Blue Bell is in in the midst of...
Texas Seeking Professionals for Windstorm Model Peer Review
Jan 12 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is seeking professionals to conduct a peer review of a model developed to determine causes of insured losses on the coast. The model was developed by an expert panel appointed to...
2016 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Quirk & Company’s Robert C. Quirk
Jan 11 2016 // San Antonio, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, Quirk & Company, announced the passing of its president and CEO for the past 41 years, Robert (Bob) C. Quirk. Born in 1946, Quirk graduated from the University of...
Robert Zeman
Jan 11 2016 // Allstate Regional Counsel Robert Zeman has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). His term began Jan. 1. Zeman has served on the ICT board of directors since...
Fatal Auto/Pedestrian Accidents Continue to Rise in Texas
Jan 11 2016 // The number of fatal auto pedestrian accidents in Texas has risen 36 percent since the Texas Department of Transportation began keeping the records in 2010, recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
Preliminary Insured Loss Estimate from Texas Tornadoes: $1.2B
Jan 11 2016 // Texas is dealing with approximately $1.2 billion in insured losses so far from nine confirmed tornadoes that struck the Dallas metro area on Dec. 26, 2015, and killed 11 people, according to preliminary estimates from the...
National Insurance Crime Bureau Warns of Post-Disaster Scams in Texas
Jan 7 2016 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced it is working with law enforcement agencies, the Texas Department of Insurance and insurance companies to warn Texas storm victims about post-disaster rebuilding...
Dallas-Area Tornadoes Account for a Big Chunk of December Insured Losses in U.S.
Jan 7 2016 // A recently released report shows that damage estimates from the natural disaster events that occurred in the United States in December 2015 will amount to more than $4 billion. Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model...
Strama Selected as Lead Attorney for Texas Surplus Lines Association
Jan 6 2016 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association has selected the law firm of Beatty, Bangle & Strama to replace longtime TSLA attorney Greg Hooser, who has retired. Keith Strama will be the lead attorney from his firm for...
Insurance Costs for December Weather in U.S. Could Top $2 Billion: Aon
Jan 6 2016 // Total economic losses from the weather events in the U.S. during the month of December will exceed $4 billion, with insured losses likely to approach or exceed $2 billion, according to Aon Benfield’s catastrophe...
Dollar General Fined Nearly $163K for Texas Worksite Hazards
Jan 5 2016 // Dollar General Corp., headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tenn., has been fined by federal safety officials over workplace safety and health hazards at its store in Sherman, Texas. Proposed penalties total $162,800. The U.S....
Hillshire Brands to Pay $4M to Settle Texas Race Discrimination Suit
Jan 5 2016 // Hillshire Brands Company (formerly known as the Sara Lee Corp.) will pay $4 million to a group of 74 African-American former employees who had worked at a former Sara Lee facility in Paris, Texas, to settle a race...
CoVerica Opens New Branch Office in Tyler, Texas
Jan 4 2016 // Dallas-based independent insurance agency, CoVerica Inc., has opened a new branch location in Tyler, Texas. Keith Nail is Tyler’s branch president and Tyler resident. Nail holds the CIC designation and specializes in...
Repairs to Hazardous Lewisville Lake Dam in Texas Likely Delayed
Jan 4 2016 // Rising water levels will likely delay repairs to a 160-foot-long landslide along the Lewisville Lake dam, a possible threat to the hundreds of thousands of North Texans who live downstream. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
Farmers Insurance Launches Rideshare Insurance Coverage in Texas
Jan 4 2016 // Farmers Insurance has introduced its new Rideshare Insurance Coverage endorsement designed to provide coverage options for ride-hailing drivers in Texas. Farmers said it worked with representatives of the Texas Department...
‘Couldn’t Stand the Weather’ Sums Up South Central News in 2015
Dec 30 2015 // If you scan the song/album list of the late, great Texas blues guitar powerhouse, Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’ll get an inkling of what the major stories from Insurance Journal’s South Central region in 2015 were...
Insured Loss Estimate from Texas Tornadoes at $1.2B, So Far
Dec 30 2015 // Texas is dealing with approximately $1.2 billion in insured losses so far from nine confirmed tornadoes that struck the metro-Dallas area on Dec. 26 and killed 11 people, according to preliminary estimates from the...
Officials: ‘Affluenza’ Teen, Mother Fled to Mexico, now Detained
Dec 30 2015 // A Texas sheriff said an arrest warrant will be issued for a Texas woman who was found with her son in Mexico, a teenager on probation after killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck and invoking an...
Robert C. Quirk of San Antonio-Based Quirk & Co. Passes
Dec 30 2015 // San Antonio, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, Quirk & Company, announced the passing of its president and CEO for the past 41 years, Robert (Bob) C. Quirk. Born in 1946, Quirk graduated from the University of...
