Latest Texas Headlines
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Drunk Driver Crashes into Texas Police Cars, Barely Misses Officer
Nov 7 2014 // Galveston police have arrested a man who they say crashed into two police cars while driving drunk. KHOU-TV reports 66-year-old Raymond Oakley nearly struck a Galveston police officer who was working at the scene of an...
Two Charged with Stealing 130-Plus Calculators from Texas High School
Nov 6 2014 // Two men have been charged with felony theft after more than 130 calculators worth about $17,000 were stolen from a Central Texas school. Round Rock police spokeswoman Angelique Myers on said investigators are seeking three...
Federal Safety Engineer Defended Trinity’s Highway Guardrails
Nov 5 2014 // U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crash-worthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails. Starting...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Expert Panel to Meet
Nov 4 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting on Nov. 12 to discuss the progress of the panel’s work thus far. Attendees will have...
AG Caldwell: No Texas Ebola Waste Disposal in Louisiana
Nov 3 2014 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced an agreement has been reached with Texas incinerator Veolia Environmental Services and Louisiana hazardous waste landfill Chemical Waste Management to ensure that...
People – South Central
Nov 3 2014 // Ranney Pageler, vice president of fraud investigations at Employers Insurance, has been named chair of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) Fraud Committee. Pageler, who is based in Austin, Texas,...
Wind Insurer Settles Lawsuit with South Texas School District
Nov 3 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a South Texas school district, according to district court records in Cameron County. The...
Jury Finds Texas Windstorm Insurer Adequately Paid City for Ike Claims
Nov 3 2014 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort in coastal areas announced that a judgment has been entered in its favor in a lawsuit brought by League City in Southeast Texas. The judgment signed on Oct. 16, 2014, by...
The Pitfalls of Rejecting a Defense Under Texas ‘Same Facts’ Test
Nov 3 2014 // Texas law recognizes that an insurer’s reservation of rights can create a potential conflict of interest. (Northern County Mut. Ins. Co. v. Davalos, 140 S.W.3d 685 (Tex. 2004)). Although there is a potential for...
Jordan Wins FIWT Leadership Award from Litchfield Special Risks
Oct 30 2014 // Cindy Jordan, of Barnard Insurance Group in Wichita Falls, Texas, won the FIWT Leadership Award sponsored by Litchfield Special Risks Inc., the company announced. This is the second year the award has been presented to a...
Mediation Ordered in Suit Against Texas Guardrail Maker
Oct 30 2014 // A federal judge has ordered mediation between a Texas company and a whistleblower who won a $175 million verdict over a design change in the company’s highway guardrails. Critics say the change made it more likely...
Mississippi to Test Guardrails After Texas Jury Finding
Oct 30 2014 // State transportation officials are investigating where faulty guardrails have been installed along Mississippi roadways. Trinity Industries Inc. stopped shipments of its ET-Plus guardrails after Texas jury ordered to pay...
Heaven & Hail: Hail Insight and the Damage it Brings
Oct 30 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Hail Damage by the Numbers Damage from convective storms continues to capture the attention of both the public and insurers because of the increase in the number of...
Dollar Tree Stores Recently Fined $262K for Safety Hazards in Texas
Oct 29 2014 // National discount chain Dollar Tree Stores Inc., based in Texas, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for willfully and repeatedly exposing workers to serious...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Seeks Presenters for Safety Summit
Oct 29 2014 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking presenters for its 19th Annual Workplace Safety and Health Conference, the Texas Safety Summit, which will be held in Austin on May 19-21, 2015. The...
Texas to Hold Hearing on Windstorm Association Maximum Limits
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing to consider the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) petition related to the maximum limits of liability for windstorm and hail insurance...
Allen Named Insurance Fraud Prosecutor for Dallas County
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced Amy Allen as a fraud prosecutor who will work exclusively with criminal prosecutors in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to combat insurance fraud. Allen...
Scholarships Awarded to Texas Women in Insurance Group Members
Oct 27 2014 // The National Alliance presented five scholarships to Federation of Insurance Women of Texas Incorporated (FIWT) members at the organization’s 70th Annual Convention, held in Waco, Texas. The CIC and CISR scholarships...
All Risks Ltd. Adds Martino, Flake in Texas
Oct 27 2014 // Frank Martino and Rhonda Flake have joined based in Hunt Valley, Md.-based insurance wholesaler All Risks Ltd. in the firm’s South Central operations. Frank Martino Martino is a broker in Austin, Texas. He...
Ford Appointed to Texas FAIR Plan Governing Committee
Oct 24 2014 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance Julia Rathgeber appointed Christina Ford of Red Oak to the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Governing Committee. The commissioner also reappointed Georgia Neblett of Port...
