Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Pennsylvania AG Sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance
Oct 15 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees’ health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, leaving some...
Texas-based Firm Named PIA’s Managing General Agency of the Year
Oct 13 2009 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Empower Insurance Group MGA Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, as recipient of its 2009 Managing General Agency of the Year Award. “Empower...
Loss Control Leads to $801K Dividend for Texas Auto Dealers
Oct 9 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced an $801,625 dividend to the Lone Star Auto Dealers (LSA) purchasing group. LSA has earned nearly $4 million in dividends since 2002. The dividend...
Texas Woman Sentenced in Distracted Driving Case
Oct 7 2009 // A state district judge in Texas has sentenced a woman to 30 days in jail, 10 years probation and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine for criminally negligent homicide in connection with a case of “distracted...
Insurance Network of America Adds Swinney to Serve North Texas
Oct 7 2009 // Insurance Network of America, based in Austin, Texas, announced it continues to strengthen its law firm insurance and risk mitigation presence with the addition of Steve Swinney, who has joined the company’s...
Insurance Network of America Adds Nunley and Johnson
Oct 6 2009 // Austin, Texas-based national insurance broker, Insurance Network of America, has added C. Patrick Nunley, JD in its Professional Services Practice Group in a consultative role. Additionally, the firm welcomed Tahnee L....
HCC Insurance Holdings Forms Texas Regional Surety Office
Oct 6 2009 // Houton-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. has appointed Paul A. “Tony” Yasilli, Jr. as a vice president and regional director of American Contractors Indemnity Company and U.S. Specialty Insurance Company,...
California Environmental Extremist Arrested for 2006 Arson
Oct 5 2009 // Three years after the discovery of a failed incendiary device at a suburban Pasadena real estate construction site, FBI agents have used DNA analysis to arrest a man in Texas in a case they believe may involve...
