Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Deputy Police Chief Wants Permanent DWI Checkpoints
Dec 7 2012 // A deputy police chief in South Texas has asked legislators to consider setting up permanent DWI checkpoints to save lives. San Antonio police Deputy Chief Anthony Trevino appeared in Austin before the Texas House Criminal...
Texas Work Comp ‘Notice to Employees’ Language Changes Jan. 1
Dec 6 2012 // State law requires Texas employers to notify employees if they carry workers’ compensation insurance. The TDI-DWC recently adopted amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code §110.101 (relating to Covered and...
Jan. 1 to Bring New Texas Work Comp Nonsubscriber Reporting Requirements
Dec 6 2012 // Effective Jan. 1, 2013, Texas employers who do not carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage have new requirements for reporting their non-coverage status to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Hogan Joins Texas-Based SWBC Insurance Services
Dec 5 2012 // SWBC Insurance Services, headquartered in San Antonio, announced that Michael Hogan has joined the team as senior risk control consultant. In this role, Hogan will provide safety-expertise services to the company’s...
Willis Boosts Construction Practice with 4 Ex-Aon Specialists, 2 Others
Dec 4 2012 // Willis North America has made a series of appointments in its construction practice to serve clients in the expanding default insurance marketplace. The following individuals comprise Willis’ Default Insurance Group,...
22 Students Receive Scholarships from Insurance Council of Texas
Dec 4 2012 // Twenty-two insurance and risk management students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students...
Texas Fire Marshall Touts Success of Sprinkler Systems in Apartment Complexes
Dec 3 2012 // Not one person has been killed in a fire in Texas in the past ten years inside an apartment complex that was equipped with a fire sprinkler system according to data provided by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. In...
Texas Mutual Looks to Sever Last Ties to State Oversight
Dec 3 2012 // The insurer of last resort for workers’ compensation coverage in Texas is seeking to cut its last ties to the state government that created it. Texas Mutual Insurance Co. was established by the Texas Legislature in...
Surplus Lines Premiums on the Rise in Texas
Dec 3 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. Texas also...
Mostly Verbal Warnings, not Tickets, to Texting Texas Drivers
Dec 3 2012 // A year since it began enforcing a ban on texting while driving, a North Texas city says awareness has increased despite the small number of tickets written. Arlington police have issued 49 citations to drivers who were...
People – South Central
Dec 3 2012 // Fort Worth-based Higginbotham has hired former U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigator Ross Carmichael as the new vice president of compliance and operations for its employee benefits division. Higginbotham brokers...
Surplus Lines Premium on the Rise in Texas
Nov 30 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. The state...
Tarrant County, Texas, Leads State in Hailstorms: NOAA
Nov 29 2012 // The residents of Fort Worth, Texas, and its suburbs in Tarrant County share the dubious honor of being the area most pounded by hailstorms than in any other part of the state, according to data compiled from the National...
Van Eeten Elected to Lead Texas Surplus Lines Association
Nov 29 2012 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced that Kathy van Eeten, senior vice president – Regional Marketing for insurance broker CRC|Crump, has been elected president of the association for the coming year. Van...
Texas Green Industry Safety Group Dividends now Exceed $3M
Nov 28 2012 // Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Programs LLC announced a $273,731 dividend to the Texas Green Industry Workers’ Compensation Safety Group (TGI), bringing total dividends paid to the group to $3,246,032. The...
Investigation Ongoing in Huge Texas Highway Wreck
Nov 26 2012 // Authorities in Southeast Texas continue to investigate a 100-vehicle highway pileup on Thanksgiving Day that killed two people. Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Chuck Havard tells KFDM-TV that investigators will...
Arlington, Texas Issues Few Tickets to Texting Drivers
Nov 25 2012 // A year since it began enforcing a ban on texting while driving, a North Texas city says awareness has increased despite the small number of tickets written. Arlington police have issued 49 citations to drivers who were...
Olympic BMX Cyclist Alcohol Level High at Death
Nov 21 2012 // Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett’s blood had an alcohol level twice the legal level for drunken driving when he died in a car crash in Southeast Texas. Bennett was 33 when he died in a single-vehicle crash happened...
Texas Mutual’s General Counsel Awarded for In-House Counsel Excellence
Nov 19 2012 // Mary Barrow Nichols, senior vice president and general counsel for Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has been awarded the 2012 Magna Stella Award for Major Litigation from the Texas General Counsel Forum. The Magna Stella Awards...
Texas Energy Services Company Fined $246K for Safety Violations
Nov 19 2012 // U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Vann Energy Services LLC in Nixon, Texas, with 13 safety and health violations including two willful and three repeat for exposing...
