Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Can Texas Escape Another Hurricane Season?
Jun 1 2012 // Today marks the start of another hurricane season and many Texans are wondering if we can go one more year without a destructive storm. The last hurricane to strike Texas proved to be the costliest. Hurricane Ike struck...
SIAA Master Agency, CoVerica, Signs 50th Member Agency
Jun 1 2012 // Texas-based CoVerica Agency Alliance, a master agency member of SIAA, has signed its 50th member agency — Knott Insurance Group of Desoto, Texas — bringing SIAA’S national total to more than 4100 signed...
Lobell, Tutt Join Louisiana-Based Specialty Risk Associates
May 30 2012 // Specialty Risk Associates Inc., headquartered in Shreveport, La., has added Rhonda Lobell as a commercial lines underwriter and Dolores Tutt as a personal lines underwriter. Lobell will be working at the Baton Rouge, La.,...
Personable Insurance Acquires Texas-Based Endeavor General Agency
May 29 2012 // Excellere Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, announced that its subsidiary, Personable Insurance, has acquired Endeavor General Agency LLC, a Royce City, Texas-based non-standard personal automobile managing...
Connealy Appointed Texas State Fire Marshal
May 28 2012 // Texas has a new state fire marshal. Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman has appointed Chris Connealy, former fire chief for Cedar Park, as the state’s new fire marshal, A Texas Advisory Council on Arson...
Bexar County, Texas, Gets Special Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
May 25 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has expanded its fight against insurance fraud into San Antonio. TDI Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman has announced the placement of a special insurance fraud prosecutor and investigator...
Texas Mutual to Distribute $150M Policyholder Dividend
May 24 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co.’s board of directors has approved the company’s plan to distribute $150 million in workers’ compensation dividends. This marks the 14th consecutive year the board has approved a...
Luttrell Elected President of Combined Agents of America
May 24 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has a newly elected 2012-13 Management Committee. The new committe includes: President Roger Luttrell, president of Benton-Luttrell-Brown in Van Alstyne, Texas;...
Texas Judge Rules State Parole Officials Can Be Held Liable
May 23 2012 // A federal judge in Texas has ordered that state parole officials can be held personally liable by inmates suing over restrictive sex-offender conditions required of them, even though they were never convicted of a sex...
False Damage Claims Lead to Jail Time for Texas Couple
May 22 2012 // A North Texas couple have been sentenced to prison for their part in a conspiracy to defraud the city of Garland, Texas, of nearly $2 million by filing fraudulent damage claims against the municipality. Kenneth Wayne...
More Texas Land Out of Worst Drought Stage
May 21 2012 // Recent rainfall across much of West Texas has diminished to less than 2 percent the area of the state in the worst drought stage. Records show that hasn’t happened since March 2011. The U.S. Drought Monitor map...
Declarations – South Central
May 21 2012 // No More Cellphones “We really need better rules, regulations and laws, and corporations need to have a no-cellphone policy while operating a vehicle.” —Thomas J. Henry, attorney for a Texas woman who received...
People – South Central
May 21 2012 // Dallas-based property/casualty insurance agency, CoVerica, has hired Jim Bailey as senior vice president. The role will include traditional vice president responsibilities, as well as developing the company’s...
The Health Workers’ Compensation
May 21 2012 // Injured But Still Standing Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either. The...
Texas Attorney General Fighting State Farm Non-Renewal Plans
May 21 2012 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is taking issue with one of the nation’s largest homeowners insurer’s plan to non-renew thousands of policies for properties along the Gulf Coast. Abbott said his office is...
Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Expanding into Texas, Southeast
May 21 2012 // Another job was the last thing Bill Henry wanted when he was approached to head up a new division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF). But Henry, chairman and CEO of the Dallas-based brokerage McQueary...
Texas Company Fined $212K Over Safety Hazards
May 20 2012 // Federal regulators have imposed a fine of more than $200,000 against an aluminum products manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas, for safety and health violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Texas Windpool to Remain Under Administrative Control
May 17 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail in coastal counties will remain under the administrative control of state regulators and it will file for a 5 percent rate increase in August to become effective Jan....
Two Workers Hurt in Texas Fracking Tank Site Blast
May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said. U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...
Texas Cabinet Company Fined for Safety, Health Violations
May 16 2012 // Federal regulators recently proposed fines against a Texas-based cabinet manufacturer over safety and health violations. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Zamco...
