Latest Texas Headlines
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Official: Texas Coastal Insurer Is Unsustainable
Sep 24 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is not sustainable and likely won’t be until the state spreads the costs of risks associated with major hurricane strikes beyond just Texans living in coastal areas, the...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
No Surprise, I-35 Tops List of Texas’ 100 Most Congested Roadways
Sep 21 2012 // A portion of Interstate 35 that traverses Fort Worth is the most congested roadway in Texas, according to the state Department of Transportation. Topping TxDOTs’ list of the state’s most congested roadways is a...
Iowa Judge: Texas Firm Must Pay Disabled Workers $1.4M
Sep 20 2012 // A Texas company that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour must pay the men $1.37 million in back wages, a federal judge has ruled. The judgment...
McCombs Risk Advisors Opens for Business in Austin, Texas
Sep 18 2012 // McCombs Risk Advisors LLC (MRA) announced its launch as a newly created Texas-based insurance services company. MRA, which will initially have offices in Austin and San Antonio, offers property and casualty brokerage and...
Official: Texas Coastal Insurer Is Unsustainable
Sep 14 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is not sustainable and likely won’t be until the state spreads the costs of risks associated with major hurricane strikes beyond just Texans living in coastal areas, the...
State Farm Lloyds Files Homeowners Rate Increase in Texas
Sep 13 2012 // State Farm Lloyds says it intends to increase homeowners rates in Texas by an average 20 percent. The company announced it has submitted a rate filing to the Texas Department of Insurance. The actual premium change for any...
Report: Wildfires Pose Risk to Three-Quarter-Million Western U.S. Homes
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
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...
