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Texas Windstorm Insurance Proposed Rate Hike Rejected
Nov 1 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance has rejected a request from the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association for a 10 percent rate increase for both residential and commercial risks. But regulators left open the possibility...
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Nov 1 2009 // Eagan Insurance Agency, based in Metairie, La., has added six insurance professionals to its staff. Joining the family business are Andrew Eagan and David Strassel, both members of the fifth generation of the Eagan family...
Agents’ E&O Marked By Stability, Satisfaction
Nov 1 2009 // As Agency Revenues Fell, At Least E&O Previums Didn’t Rise Independent insurance agents have had plenty to fret about the past year, including falling revenues. Thus stability in the market and pricing for their...
NTSB: Tire Puncture Caused August 2008 Texas Bus Crash
Oct 30 2009 // An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board has determined that a tire puncture caused a bus crash in August 2008 that killed 17 members of Houston’s Vietnamese Catholic community. The finding was...
Watch Out for Boo! Texas Pedestrian Accidents Jump 23% at Halloween
Oct 30 2009 // On average, the number of Texans hit by cars spikes 23.3 percent during Halloween week, according to Allstate Insurance Company. The insurer recently looked at its Texas auto insurance claims involving pedestrians over the...
Texas May Drop Phone Numbers from Vehicle Accident Reports
Oct 29 2009 // In a blow to businesses that contact drivers after car wrecks, Texas’ law enforcement and transportation agencies have agreed to drop telephone numbers from crash reports. The move is supported by the insurance...
Texas Mutual Hires Dileo as Head of Claims Operations
Oct 29 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has hired Mike Dileo as senior vice president claims. Dileo has 15 years’ experience managing claim, underwriting, loss prevention and premium audit operations. He comes to Texas Mutual...
Alabama Attorney’s Suit Against Scruggs Assigned to Judge in Texas
Oct 28 2009 // A federal judge in Texas has been assigned to preside over an Alabama attorney’s lawsuit that alleges imprisoned attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and several others conspired to defraud him of millions...
Texas Mutual Recognizes Employers for Workplace Safety
Oct 28 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company is recognizing 164 Texas-based employers for their workplace safety efforts. The award is based largely on each policyholder’s safety record, as well as the types of hazards their...
Texas City Dike Could Reopen Next Fall, Businesses Might Not
Oct 28 2009 // A Hurricane Ike-damaged dike in Texas City, Texas, could reopen next fall after repairs are completed. Mayor Matt Doyle says none of the funds earmarked for the dike’s repair will go to rebuilding the shrimp boat...
Harleysville Mutual to Acquire Delta Lloyds Flood Insurance Business
Oct 27 2009 // Pennsylvania-based Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company and will be assuming the book of “Write Your Own” (WYO) flood business of Delta Lloyds Insurance Company of Houston, Texas, effective Nov. 1, 2009. Delta...
Court: Texas Company Unfair to Black Workers
Oct 26 2009 // State historical markers outside the headquarters of Lufkin Industries Inc. in Lufkin, Texas, tell how the company started repairing sawmill equipment at the turn of the 20th century and grew to make many of the pumps...
Researchers: Hurricane-related Power Outages Can Be Predicted
Oct 22 2009 // Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Texas A&M universities say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages in advance of a hurricane....
Prince Joins IMA of Texas as Director of Client Services
Oct 21 2009 // The IMA Financial Group Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, announced that Ron Prince has...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Proposed Rate Hike Rejected
Oct 21 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance has rejected a request from the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association for a 10 percent rate increase for both residential and commercial risks. However, regulators left open the...
Combined Agents of America Adds New Texas, Oklahoma Members
Oct 20 2009 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has expanded with the addition of two new members, First Texas Insurance Services LC of Arlington, Texas, and Lake Insurance Agency Inc. of Laverne, Okla. CAA...
El Nino to Influence U.S. Winter Weather– Or Not, Say Forecasters
Oct 19 2009 // It will be a tale of two winters in the United States — warmer and drier than average in the North and wetter and cooler in the South — thanks to El Nino, according to government forecasters. In its winter...
James Elbert, Texas Insurance Agency Executive, Passes Away
Oct 19 2009 // Long time Texas insurance agency executive James Peak Elbert, 72, of Galveston died suddenly on Oct. 11, 2009, at his home. Elbert was born in Pampa, Texas, on Feb. 5, 1937, and grew up in Lake Jackson. After working in...
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Oct 19 2009 // Unisource Program Administrators (UPA), a workers’ compensation wholesaler headquartered in Oklahoma City, has expanded services to all 50 states. In addition, the company named Barbara Drollinger, a 20-year...
Texas Workers’ Comp Report Card: Medical Costs Higher in Networks
Oct 19 2009 // But Return-to-Work Rates Higher, Too In its annual report card on the performance of Workers’ Compensation Health Care Networks, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Workers’ Compensation Research and...
