Latest Texas Headlines
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Higginbotham Hires Ponder as AVP, Loss Control, for South Texas
Dec 18 2013 // Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president of loss control. Ponder will apply his three-decade career in loss prevention to...
Texas No Longer No. 1 in High Home Insurance Rates
Dec 18 2013 // An industry group says Texas homeowners no longer are paying the highest insurance rates in the country, a distinction that now goes to Florida residents. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Disavows Racism Allegations
Dec 16 2013 // Texas’ insurer of last resort in coastal areas has denied allegations that a culture of racism has existed within the organization. Responding to claims by a Houston-based trial lawyer that employees of the Texas...
People
Dec 16 2013 // Glenn RenwickThe Progressive Corp., based in Mayfield Village, Ohio, named Chief Executive Officer Glenn Renwick as chairman of its board of directors following the death of the company’s previous chairman, Peter B....
How Agents and Brokers Help Communities Nationwide
Dec 16 2013 // IMA Dallas employees James Dark and Sharon Sanford paint walls at a child care center. IMA Big on Volunteerism In addition to giving back with volunteerism, one of the key financial goals of employee-owned IMA is to...
Cost of North Texas Ice Storm Insured Damage Estimated at $30M
Dec 15 2013 // Damage from this month’s North Texas ice storm has reached at least $30 million in residential insured losses, according to an industry group. Officials with the Insurance Council of Texas said the losses include...
Probation Sentence in Texas Teen’s Fatal DWI Wreck Stirs Ire
Dec 13 2013 // A North Texas teen from an affluent family was sentenced to probation this week after he killed four pedestrians when he lost control of his speeding pickup truck while driving drunk, a punishment that outraged the...
Insurance Program Provider Energi Opens New Office in Irving, Texas
Dec 10 2013 // Energi, a provider of risk management and insurance programs for the energy industry, has opened a new satellite office in Irving, Texas. The new office is located in The Towers at Williams Square. Energi also plans to...
South Texas Jury Awards $281 Million in Lawsuit
Dec 9 2013 // The family of a man killed by a part breaking off a truck doing Eagle Ford Shale oilfield work has won a $281 million lawsuit judgment from a South Texas jury. The Dimmit County lawsuit stemmed from the May, 29, 2012,...
Ex-Texas, South Carolina Regulator Kitzman Joins Starr Insurance as VP
Dec 9 2013 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
Texas to Workers’ Comp Carriers: Direction of Care for Pharmacy Services Prohibited
Dec 9 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has sent a reminder to Texas workers’ compensation system participants that insurance carriers, including their agents, are prohibited from...
Wal-Mart Heiress Gets Texas DWI Arrest Expunged
Dec 6 2013 // Alice Walton, the billionaire daughter of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, has had a 2011 arrest in Texas for suspected drunken driving cleared from her record after prosecutors declined to press formal...
Texas Independent Insurance Agents, Wholesalers Team Up for Community Service
Dec 6 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts in December to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank located in Austin, Texas. Food and money were...
Insurer Geico Plans to Add Up to 1,000 Texas Jobs
Dec 5 2013 // The insurance company Geico plans to open a claims center in suburban Houston that will employ up to 1,000 people. The company announced that the positions will range from entry-level to what Geico describes as...
Hill Named VP of Loss Prevention at Texas Mutual Insurance
Dec 5 2013 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has named Woody Hill its vice president of loss prevention. Hill will oversee the company’s ongoing initiative to deliver...
Texas Department of Insurance Proposes Navigator Rules for Health Exchange
Dec 3 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has proposed rules relating to federal health insurance exchange navigators. The rules propose criminal background checks, privacy training, proof of identity and evidence of...
TWFG Acquires Ward Business Insurance
Dec 3 2013 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG has acquired Ward Business Insurance, located in the Kingwood/Humble, Texas area. TWFG’s proprietary agency systems will be installed into Ward Business and the company will merge into...
Texas Regulators Post Summaries of Property/Casualty Insurance Bills for 2013
Dec 3 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance has posted information and brief summaries of selected bills enacted during the 83rd Legislative regular session that relate to property/casualty insurance. The bills listed may require...
Williams Insurance Agency Opens New Office in Diana, Texas
Dec 2 2013 // Gilmer, Texas-based independent insurance agency, Williams Insurance Agency, announced it has opened a second location in Diana, Texas. Williams Insurance Agency is one of the seven professional independent insurance...
Raue Added as State Auto Regional Claims Manager in Texas
Dec 2 2013 // Michelle Raue has joined State Auto’s Western Region in Austin, Texas, as claims regional manager. Raue assumes responsibility and oversight for the local execution of the group’s claims strategy, claims...
