Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Mutual Wins Health and Wellness Award
Sep 5 2014 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., was recently named the winner of the Higginbotham Health & Wellness Award in the large business category at the 2014 Greater Austin Business Awards, the...
U.S. Risk Opens New Office in Fort Worth, Texas
Sep 5 2014 // Dallas-based managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has opened a new office in Fort Worth, Texas. The new office is initially staffed with underwriters from the energy and...
Church Funding Emergency Alert System for West, Texas
Sep 4 2014 // A church in the small Texas city devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion is funding an emergency alert system for the town’s residents. The system will allow West officials to deliver an automated phone message to...
Endris, Parker Join Higginbotham/Swantner & Gordon in Texas
Aug 29 2014 // Commercial insurance brokers Aaron Endris and Bryan Parker joined the Swantner & Gordon branch office of Higginbotham in Corpus Christi, Texas. Endris joins as manager of the bond department and Parker as associate of...
Philadelphia Insurance Vindicated in YouTube Bugatti Crash Case
Aug 29 2014 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies said it’s been vindicated in its investigation and denial of a fraudulent claim filed by an East Texas motorist for the 2009 crash of his Bugatti Veryon, following his guilty plea...
Texas County Reaches $775K Deal in Taser Case
Aug 28 2014 // Bastrop County in Texas has settled a federal lawsuit for $775,000 with the family of a high school student who suffered a brain injury after a deputy shot him with a Taser. The attorney representing Noe Niño de Rivera...
Officials: Texas Man Deliberately Ruined $1M Bugatti Car
Aug 28 2014 // Federal authorities say an East Texas man has admitted to deliberately driving his $1 million car into Gulf waters so that he could collect insurance on the vehicle. Authorities announced that 39-year-old Andy Lee House of...
Texas Considers Tougher Rules on Disoposal Wells
Aug 27 2014 // As scientists investigate whether injection wells where the booming oil and gas industry disposes of wastewater cause earthquakes, the Texas agency that oversees oil and gas is proposing a regulatory overhaul. The Texas...
Semitrailer Wrecks in Texas Panhandle Caused by High Winds
Aug 26 2014 // Texas authorities say strong winds in the Texas Panhandle have caused the rollovers of two highway semitrailers. A Department of Public Safety spokesman tells the Amarillo Globe-News that two people were injured in a wreck...
Design Flaws Found on Bridges on $1.4B North Texas Toll Road
Aug 26 2014 // Officials in North Texas will have to repair faulty bridge beams on the new $1.4 billion Chisholm Trail Parkway after an inspection found design flaws. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the North Texas Tollway...
Brownsville, Texas Ranks Second Among Safe Driving Cities
Aug 26 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co.’s 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” ranks Brownsville, Texas, second safest among America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision...
VanDelinder Retiring from Texas Independent Agent Association
Aug 25 2014 // The board of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that IIAT Executive Director/President David VanDelinder is retiring from the association effective Dec. 31, 2014. Regarding VanDelinder’s retirement,...
VanDelinder Honored with Distinguished Service Award from State Auto
Aug 22 2014 // David VanDelinder, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT), has been presented with State Auto Insurance Co.’s Distinguished Service Award. The presentation by State Auto CEO Bob...
Despite Murder Charge, Texas Woman Gets Insurance Payout
Aug 21 2014 // A judge has awarded the payout of trucking magnate Bill Hall Jr.’s life insurance policy to Hall’s widow, who’s charged with murdering her husband. Bexar County Probate Judge Tom Rickhoff has ordered that...
U.S. Attorney: Texas Man Guilty in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Aug 20 2014 // A 42-year-old Nederland, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal violations related to fraudulent insurance claims in the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced. Antonio Govea Figueroa pleaded...
Texas Woman Pleads Guilty to Crash Staging Scheme
Aug 20 2014 // A 32-year-old Port Arthur, Texas, woman has pleaded guilty in a case involving staged auto crashes and fraudulent insurance claims, according to U.S. Attorney John M. Bales for the Eastern District of Texas. Shawnta Rene...
Miller Joins Governmental Affairs Team at IIAT
Aug 19 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced that Amanda Miller of New Braunfels has joined the association as governmental affairs manager and PAC coordinator. Miller has participated in a number of...
Prevention, Improved Response Stressed in West Explosion Report
Aug 19 2014 // Improvements in the response to large, complex fires was just one of the suggestions in a state fire marshal report on the fire and deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, in the early evening of April 17,...
‘Three-Strikes’ Law Proposed for Nursing Homes in Texas
Aug 18 2014 // Texas nursing homes that thrice commit egregious oversight offenses could be shuttered under a plan proposed by state lawmakers. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended the crackdown at its recent meeting in...
Fees, Plus Commissions, Allowed for Retail Insurance Agents in Texas
Aug 18 2014 // Retail insurance agents in Texas are allowed to charge certain fees in addition to a commission in relation to selling an insurance policy, but those fees must be disclosed to the customer. “Texas is one of the few...
