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Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Names Huckaby General Auditor
Mar 13 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has named Bill Huckaby as its new general auditor. Huckaby previously served as the company’s senior manager of finance and operations...
Texas Mutual Rewards 3 Safety Groups with $435K in Dividends
Mar 12 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that three workers’ compensation safety groups have earned a combined $435,324 in dividends. The dividends were based largely on each group’s overall loss ratio. The largest...
Central Texas Wildfire Victims Benefit from $4M in Donations
Mar 8 2012 // Parts of Central Texas devastated by wildfires last year have benefited from more than $4 million in private donations and the help of volunteers who are rebuilding homes. The Austin American-Statesman reports that in...
Texas Arson Hotline Nabs 4 Suspects
Mar 8 2012 // Four San Angelo juveniles are suspected of setting fire to an abandoned San Angelo hotel and the arrests may lead to solving other suspicious fires in the area. San Angelo fire investigators have placed two suspects in...
Texas Mutual Adds Jackson as Sr. Manager of Underwriting, Marketing
Mar 8 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has hired Bill Jackson as senior manager of underwriting and marketing in Dallas. Jackson will be responsible for managing marketing and...
Polak Named Texas Windstorm Insurance Association General Manager
Mar 6 2012 // John PolakJohn Polak has been named general manager of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA). Since April 2011, Polak served as interim general manager for the association. Polak has more than 39 years of...
2011 an Exceptional Year for Tornadoes
Mar 5 2012 // While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so in Alabama, which led all...
Texas Company Develops Up-to-Date Property Data for Insurers
Mar 5 2012 // In many ways, insurance is a battle for information. From marketing to underwriting to claims, the ability to know as much as possible about a potential insured, especially for property risks, is vital. With that in mind,...
U.S. Should Expect Another Above-Normal Tornado Season
Mar 5 2012 // The U.S. should expect an active severe weather season with above-normal tornadoes in 2012. That’s after a near-record number of tornadoes in 2011, according to forecasters at AccuWeather.com in State College,...
Value of Texas ‘Loser Pays’ Statute Questioned
Mar 5 2012 // A law in Texas that assigns court costs to “losers” in cases deemed to be “frivolous” is not all that effective, says one Austin-based attorney. Joanna Salinas, partner and manager of the...
People
Mar 5 2012 // W. Martin Yung has been selected chief executive officer for JDW Insurance, headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Yung is a shareholder and a member of the board of directors. He has served as president of the firm since...
Texas Regulators Looking at Ways to Restructure TWIA
Mar 5 2012 // Texas insurance regulators are seeking a consultant to explore ways to restructure the insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast. Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman says she believes...
Business Moves
Mar 5 2012 // Town & Country, Whittington Insurance Houston-based Town & Country Insurance Agency Inc., a subsidiary of Encore Bancshares Inc. and an affiliate of Encore Bank N.A., has completed its acquisition of Whittington...
Dallas Doctor, 6 Others Arrested in $375M Health Care Fraud Scheme
Mar 1 2012 // A physician and the office manager of his medical practice, along with five owners of home health agencies, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged participation in a nearly $375 million health care fraud...
Crime Prevention Campaign Joins Forces With Another Texas Town
Feb 29 2012 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has joined with the Grand Prairie Police Department in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing auto thefts and auto burglaries. The program involves the funding and distribution...
Hackings, Emails Shine Rare Light on Texas-Based Intelligence Firm
Feb 29 2012 // Austin, Texas-based private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor) was paid by Coca-Cola to gauge the threat of Olympic protesters, provided Dow Chemical information on environmental activists, and...
Western Security Surplus’ Stevens Helps Launch Berry Family 5K
Feb 24 2012 // On July 3, 2011, while returning to their home in Houston, Texas, from an annual family road trip to Colorado, the Berry family found themselves victims of a tragic, fatal car accident. The Berry family’s minivan,...
Texas Regulators Looking at Ways to Restructure Windstorm Pool
Feb 23 2012 // Texas insurance regulators are seeking a consultant to explore options for restructuring the insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast. The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a request for proposal...
2011 an Exceptional Year for Tornadoes
Feb 23 2012 // While 2011 marked the fourth deadliest year on record for tornadoes in the United States, Texas was spared tornado-related fatalities and recorded fewer-than-average number of such storms. Not so Alabama, which led all...
Yung Named CEO at El Paso, Texas-Based JDW Insurance
Feb 23 2012 // W. Martin Yung has been selected chief executive officer for JDW Insurance, headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Yung is a shareholder and a member of the board of directors. He has served as president of the firm since...
