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Hurricane Ike Claims Still Being Filed Four Years Later
Sep 10 2012 // Nearly four years after Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston Island, coastal residents are still filing claims and hundreds of lawsuits. Most of the legal activity is aimed at the Texas Windstorm Insurance...
People – South Central
Sep 10 2012 // Rick Bondurant has rejoined the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) staff as director of management resources. In this role, Bondurant is responsible for developing, implementing and managing strategic agency...
Bastrop Labor Day Fire: One Year Later
Sep 10 2012 // Belinda Williams was preparing to go to bed in her beautiful Texas limestone house embedded in the lost pines of Bastrop when she looked out her window and saw a huge orange glow. She woke her husband and told him they...
Texas Mutual Pays $355K Dividend to Apartment Group
Sep 9 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Texas Apartment Association (TAA) safety group earned a $355,922 dividend. The workers’ compensation dividend was based largely on the group’s overall safety...
Texas DA Investigating State Farm Hurricane Claims
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Criminal Investigation Launched Over Hurricane Ike Claim
Sep 7 2012 // Texas homeowner Jim Warner has been locked in a legal battle with State Farm over denial of insurance claims for the damages to his home from Hurricane Ike. That battle was just upgraded to a category five by the Travis...
Texas in November to Open 85 Mph Toll Way
Sep 7 2012 // Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country. Construction crews have begun posting 85 mph speed limit signs for the pending section of toll road between Austin and San Antonio. An...
A Year After Texas Wildfires, Recovery Continues
Sep 4 2012 // One year after wildfires raced through Bastrop and impacted 64 other Texas counties, recovery continues with more than $63 million in disaster assistance provided to date, state and federal emergency management officials...
Brownsville Named Safest Driving City in Texas
Aug 30 2012 // Brownsville once again tops the list as the safest driving city in Texas, according to the eighth annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” released by Allstate Insurance Company. The report, based...
Galveston Man Gets Prison for Hacking Texas DPS
Aug 28 2012 // A hacker who targeted Texas Department of Public Safety computers has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 31-year-old Higinio O. Ochoa III of Galveston must also pay more than $14,000...
10 U.S. Cities with Safest Drivers
Aug 28 2012 // This year’s top honor of “America’s Safest Driving City” is Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the average driver will experience an auto collision every 13.8 years, which is 27.6 percent less likely...
Texas Judge Restrains Waco-Based Life Settlements Firm
Aug 24 2012 // A Texas judge has ordered a Waco-based life settlements firm to preserve records and assets after state officials alleged the firm is in “dire financial straits.” Life Partners has been a past target of federal...
SIAA Signs 4 New Members in Oklahoma, Texas
Aug 24 2012 // The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced 40 new member agencies in July. Of those, four new members are from South Central states. Twenty-nine of the 40 are agencies new to the independent agency system,...
A Year Later: Bastrop, Texas Fire Victims Thankful for Assistance
Aug 23 2012 // The home of John and Lisa Whitt was reduced to ashes in the Bastrop Labor Day fire in Texas last year, but today, they feel like they have received more than they lost. The Whitts had 15 minutes to get everything they...
Rules Protecting Against Hospital ‘Balance Billing’ Suspended in Texas
Aug 23 2012 // In a move that’s angered consumer advocates and doctor groups, Texas’ top insurance regulator has canceled new rules designed to help consumers avoid getting big bills for out-of-network care. The rules were...
The Republic Group Announces Officer Appointments
Aug 22 2012 // The Republic Group, headquartered in Dallas, has made several executive appointments. Ron Lawson has been appointed vice president, Marketing. Lawson joined Republic in 2004 as director, Marketing and Product Development,...
Texas Wind Pool: $800M Available for Claims Should Storm Hit Coast
Aug 21 2012 // Going into the peak time of the year for hurricane development, Texas’ property insurance company of last resort in coastal areas has around $800 million in available cash to immediately handle claims in the event a...
Texas Windstorm Pool: Fax Problems Due to Provider Connectivity
Aug 21 2012 // Agents who place insurance with Texas’ property insurer of last resort in coastal areas apparently have been having difficulty faxing policy changes to the company. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association says the...
Texas Averaged 250 Traffic Deaths per Month in 2011
Aug 21 2012 // On average, 250 people killed in traffic crashes every month in 2011, Texas officials say. While the number of people killed each year in traffic crashes in Texas has decreased by about 21 percent since 2003, the Texas...
Texas Jury Awards Nearly $1M to West Nile Victim
Aug 20 2012 // A Texas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a Union Pacific worker who sued the railroad after claiming he was infected with West Nile virus while on the job. A DeWitt County jury on Aug. 16 found Union Pacific partially...
