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Sep 5 2011 // Michael Crafts has joined The Woodlands Financial Group as vice president of Sales and Marketing. Crafts has more than 15 years of all lines insurance experience. He started his career with Farmers Insurance Group. Most...
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Sep 5 2011 // Seeking Unexplored Routes to Riches, a Rising Oklahoma Agency Network Finds Its New Corporate Identity, While Doubling Its Size Top 100 Agency Profile Rank: No. 15 Agency Name: INSURICA Insurance Management Network Main...
Texas Mutual Creates Work Comp Safety Group for Houses of Worship
Sep 2 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a new workers’ compensation safety group: Texas Church Group. The group is open to qualifying nonprofit, faith-based organizations operating houses of worship, such as churches...
Woodlands Financial Group Expands
Sep 1 2011 // Texas-based retail and managing general insurance agency, The Woodlands Financial Group Inc. (TWFG), announced it opened 11 new branch locations in three states in August 2011. Among the newly opened branches and added...
Texas Mutual Rewards Medical Group with $874K Dividend
Sep 1 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced an $873,522 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG). The workers’ compensation safety group dividend was based largely on TMG’s overall loss ratio. TMG safety group...
Texas Supreme Court: Bad Faith Claim Inconsistent with Worker’s Comp
Aug 30 2011 // The Texas Supreme Court has concluded that while bad faith claims against workers’ compensation carriers are not permissible under the state’s Insurance Code, claims made under the Code against insurers for...
‘Friday Night Lights’ Star Featured in PSAs Supporting Texas Firefighters
Aug 25 2011 // Actor Kyle Chandler has taped public service announcements for Texas volunteer fire departments needing money after an intense year of wildfires. Chandler, who plays a West Texas football coach in the television series...
Texas Medical Liability Trust to Reduce Rates, Pay 18.5% Dividend
Aug 25 2011 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced a rate reduction for TMLT policyholders and an 18.5 percent dividend for renewing policyholders, effective Jan.1, 2012. The average rate decrease will be 6.9 percent, but will vary...
Company Ordered to Pay $300K to Texas Mutual Insurance
Aug 25 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Bar H Concrete Inc. of Sulphur Springs pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County district court ordered Bar H Concrete to pay $300,000 in...
Texas Attorney Arrested for Alleged Bribery Schemes in Personal Injury Cases
Aug 24 2011 // An Austin attorney was arrested Aug. 22 on federal racketeering charges alleging bribery of an already-convicted Texas judge, as well as witnesses in state and federal cases. Marc Rosenthal’s indictment is only the...
HUB International to be profiled at MarketScout’s Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium
Aug 23 2011 // Rick Gulliver, President of Hub International to Profile Growth Strategy DALLAS, August 23, 2011 – Rick Gulliver, President of HUB International, will deliver a keynote presentation to over 400 insurance industry...
MSW’s Wastepac Sanitation Industry Program Now Available in Texas
Aug 19 2011 // Wastepac, a specialized insurance facility for sanitation industries offered by MarketScout Wholesale LLC, is now available to accounts in Texas. The Wastepac Program offers property and casualty coverages designed...
Texas AG Again Charges Petroleum Distributor of Defrauding Customers
Aug 19 2011 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged a petroleum distributor of selling diluted gasoline. It is the state’s third court action against the company since 2009. Petroleum Wholesale L.P., Sun Development L.P....
Most Doctors Sued Sometime in Career
Aug 19 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year. Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one...
Texas State Low Cost Insurance Opens Waxahachie Office
Aug 17 2011 // Texas State Low Cost Insurance (TSLCI) has opened a new location in Waxahachie, Texas, about 20 miles southeast of Dallas. The company specializes in non-standard auto insurance and also offers a variety of other property...
Texas Enforcements for June 2011 Include Nearly $285K in Fines, Restitution
Aug 17 2011 // Enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance that became final during June 2011 include seven license revocations, two license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $285,521. An order imposing...
Texas Investigates Buyouts of Homes Damaged by Ike
Aug 17 2011 // Disagreements among homeowners in an exclusive Galveston Island beach community have led to a fraud investigation involving a $25 million federal buyout program for houses damaged by Hurricane Ike in 2008. The state-run...
Texas State Low Cost Insurance Opens Greenville Location
Aug 12 2011 // Texas State Low Cost Insurance announced it has opened a new office in Greenville, about 40 miles east of Dallas. The company offers a variety of property and casualty insurance products in addition to non-standard auto...
Woodlands Financial Opens Four Branch Offices
Aug 11 2011 // The Woodlands Financial Group, Inc. of Woodlands, Texas expanded its operations by opening four new branch locations. Noel Sanchez opened a new branch in San Mateo, Calif. Sanchez has 14 years of experience in the...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp Recent Enforcement Actions
Aug 10 2011 // Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC). The final actions...
