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16 Higher Ed Students Land Scholarships from Insurance Council of Texas
Dec 5 2014 // Sixteen students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $32,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The ICT announced that the students attend St....
Insurance Council: No Hurricanes, but Bad Weather Plagued Texas
Dec 3 2014 // As 2014 hurricane season ends the people of Texas can count themselves lucky to have dodged hurricanes for the past six years, which has been particularly good news for coastal residents. Despite the lack of hurricanes,...
NSM Insurance in Texas Names Mattiello Director of Specialty Aviation
Dec 3 2014 // NSM Insurance Group has named Larry Mattiello director of specialty aviation underwriters. Mattiello began his aviation insurance career 35 years ago and has experience in general aviation insurance, safety and risk...
Regions Insurance Opens Dallas Office
Dec 2 2014 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, announced on Tuesday it has opened a Dallas, Texas, office. Regions Insurance has existing offices in Waco and Texarkana. The new Dallas office is part of continuing efforts...
Vehicle Collision in Texas Panhandle Kills 5
Dec 2 2014 // Five people have been killed, including four members of a New Mexico family, in a late-night collision on a rural road in the Texas Panhandle. Texas Department of Public Safety Senior Trooper Chris Ray says 30-year-old...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Expands Texas Presence with the Addition of Underwriting and Marketing Personnel
Dec 2 2014 // San Diego, CA, December 2, 2014– Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program manager, announces the expansion of its Texas presence with the hiring of key marketing and underwriting...
Texas Company Turns Trucks into Wildfire Fighters
Dec 1 2014 // Could icemakers be next? Most of the options on the brush fire trucks made at Texas-based Steele Fire Apparatus fall into the category of things you might expect. Light towers, electrical inverters, pumps for hydraulic...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Launches Depopulation Portal
Dec 1 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has initiated a process whereby interested insurance companies may access information on TWIA insured properties in an effort to move policies to private insurers. The...
Texas Agent Group Acquires LevelFirst, Forms IIAT Services MGA
Dec 1 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced it is continuing its tradition of providing insurance markets for small independent agencies with the acquisition of Dallas-based managing general agency...
People – South Central
Dec 1 2014 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. elected Penny Restrepo president of the organization for the coming year, along with other officers and directors at its annual meeting in Austin on Nov. 10. Restrepo is vice...
Liberty, Texas, Posting Auto Theft Warning Signs from Insurance Council
Nov 25 2014 // Police officers in Liberty, Texas, will be putting up crime prevention signs in their city this week to help motorists prevent auto thefts and burglaries. Black Friday and the holiday shopping season is a great time for...
Texas to Hold Hearings on Workers’ Comp Rates and Relativities
Nov 25 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled public hearings to review rates charged by insurers for workers’ compensation insurance in this state, and to consider revised Texas workers’ compensation...
Texas Woman Acquitted in Fiancé’s Death; GM Ignition-Switch Blamed
Nov 25 2014 // A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her fiancé in a 2004 accident involving a since-recalled General Motors Saturn Ion won a reversal of her conviction. Candice Anderson, who was...
Texas Wind Insurer Launches Depopulation Portal
Nov 24 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has initiated a process whereby interested insurance companies may access information on TWIA insured properties in an effort to move policies to private insurers. The...
Small Quake Near Dallas Stirs Fracking Critics
Nov 24 2014 // A light earthquake shook the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of North Texas at night on Nov. 22, leaving no known damage or casualties but stirring concern about the potential of the area’s oil and gas fracking industry to...
Thibodeaux Joins Texas-Based Southwest Risk
Nov 21 2014 // ClearView Risk Holdings LLC, the holding company of Texas-based Southwest Risk LP, announced that Chad Thibodeaux has joined Southwest Risk as a property/inland marine broker. Thibodeaux began his insurance career with...
Texas Man Claims Medical Errors Led to Leg Amputations
Nov 21 2014 // A Texas man intending to undergo a weight-loss operation is seeking $10 million in damages for what he says were a series of medical blunders that led to the amputation of both his legs at the knee. Carlos Saucedo has...
Hospitals Improvise on Safety to Treat Ebola Patients
Nov 21 2014 // What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital? Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare disease. To a large...
Texas Mutual Awards $62K Dividend to Construction Supply Safety Group
Nov 20 2014 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., recently awarded a dividend of $62,147 to the Texas Construction Supply safety group. Texas Mutual said the dividend was earned based on the...
