Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Apr 5 2010 // IMA Financial Insurance and risk management services company, IMA Financial Group Inc., has established a contract management practice at its retail insurance brokerage subsidiary, IMA of Texas. The contractual risk...
Texas Law Limiting Contact with Accident Victims Overturned
Apr 5 2010 // A federal judge has overturned a Texas law that bars medical professionals from contacting victims within 30 days of an accident, and lawyers from contacting people within a month of getting arrested. U.S. District Judge...
Insurer’s Study Shows U.S. Refineries Plagued by Deadly Accidents
Apr 5 2010 // U.S. oil refineries have an ongoing problem with accidents that turn deadly, losing four times as much money from such incidents than refineries in the rest of the world, according to an insurance company report obtained...
Schools Group Tops $1.5M Texas Mutual Dividend Mark
Apr 5 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $312,893 dividend to the Texas Schools Group (TSG). The workers’ compensation purchasing group dividend was based largely on TSG’s loss ratio. TSG has earned...
States Take Action Against Health Care Reform
Apr 5 2010 // Many U.S. states are worried that the health care overhaul plan approved by the U.S. House of Representatives will usurp their sovereignty and impose more spending on their already stretched budgets. Republican attorneys...
Arrested Texas Bond Company Owner Cited in Louisiana Case
Apr 2 2010 // A 41-year-old Fort Worth man arrested in March owns the bonding company that cost the New Orleans-based low bidder a contract to build a new $35 million terminal at Monroe Regional Airport. George Douglas Black Sr. was...
Texas African-American Insurance Association Experiencing Many ‘Firsts’
Apr 2 2010 // Officially chartered in 2009, the Texas chapter of a national association of African-American insurance professionals has an ambitious goal of becoming the one of the premier insurance associations in the Dallas-Fort Worth...
IMA of Texas Hires Bailey as VP – Benefits, Property and Casualty
Apr 2 2010 // IMA of Texas Inc., a retail insurance broker and risk management firm, announced that Kyle A. Bailey joined the company as a vice president for employee benefits and property and casualty insurance. Bailey has more than 12...
Texas Agency Awarded Trusted Choice Agency of the Month
Apr 1 2010 // The Hare & Rathke Insurance Group, in Humble, Texas, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. The Hare &...
State Farm Sues Texas Department of Insurance Over Web Postings
Apr 1 2010 // State Farm Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Insurance after the state agency took the unprecedented move of publicizing on its Web site recent rate hikes by the company. Texas’ largest...
State Farm Files to Increase Homeowners Rates in Louisiana
Mar 31 2010 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has filed an average 9.9 percent rate increase request for homeowners coverage in Louisiana, according to the Associated Press. State Farm is Louisiana’s largest home insurer with...
Texas Law Limiting Contact with Accident Victims Overturned
Mar 29 2010 // A federal judge has overturned a Texas law that bars medical professionals from contacting victims within 30 days of an accident and lawyers from contacting people within a month of getting arrested. U.S. District Judge...
Cirro Covers Texas Homes Against Water, Sewer Line Problems
Mar 26 2010 // Cirro Home Guard, an affiliate of Cirro Energy, has created three new programs that provide water line replacement, sewer line repair, and related landscaping restoration for homeowners in Texas. Cirro Home Guard water...
Allen Joins Texas’ The Gibraltar Group as VP – Training
Mar 26 2010 // Cathy H. Allen has been named vice president of Training for Lubbock, Texas-based insurance organization, The Gibraltar Group. In addition, she will be working with the firm’s customers in human resources risk...
Insurance & Risk Advisor Joins Texas Associates Team
Mar 25 2010 // Alex Castano joined Texas Associates Insurors in Austin, Texas, as a risk and insurance advisor with a focus on developing and implementing risk solutions strategies for commercial entities He joins Texas Associates...
Texas Approves 9 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Mar 25 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for nine companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Texas Mutual Adds New Purchasing Group for Agriculture Industry
Mar 25 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has launched a new workers’ compensation purchasing group for the agriculture industry, AgriComp. Any licensed Texas agent can submit qualifying clients for consideration. AgriComp is...
A.M. Best Withdraws Ratings of Electric Lloyd’s of Texas
Mar 24 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has withdrawn the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Electric Lloyd’s of Texas (Electric Lloyd’s) (Dallas, Texas) and assigned an...
Consultant: Social Media Can Drive Traffic to Agency’s ‘Home Base’
Mar 24 2010 // One of the primary reasons why insurance agents don’t jump into the world of social media — such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the myriad other Web-based avenues for reaching out to the...
Texas Insurer Group Awards Scholarships to Huston-Tillotson Students
Mar 24 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has honored three students participating in the insurance curriculum at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin with scholarships. The 2010 ICT scholarship recipients at Huston-Tillotson...
