Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Company Fined $149K for Health and Safety Violations
Aug 22 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $149,100 in fines to Texas Linen Co. Ltd. in Austin, Texas, for one willful, 43 alleged serious and one...
State Farm, Allstate Raising Auto Rates in Texas
Aug 21 2008 // Allstate and State Farm, two of the largest auto insurers in Texas, are raising their rates, saying the boost is needed to offset a rising number of claims. In filings with the Texas Department of Insurance, State Farm...
Sunset Report Says Texas Homebuilder Agency Should Go
Aug 21 2008 // The Texas Residential Construction Commission should be abolished because it is ineffective and frustrates homeowners trying to get builders to address defects in their homes, according to a state agency review. Created in...
America’s Safest Drivers Travel the Roads in America’s Heartland
Aug 21 2008 // Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an...
State Ranking In Number of Events
Aug 21 2008 // F5 Tornado damage in Parkersburg, Iowa, May 25, 2008. Tornado damage, Windsor, Colo. Prior to 1990, the average number of tornadoes per year in the Continental US was 772. In the period from 1990 through 2007, the average...
Tornado Threats Loom Large as Flood Waters Recede
Aug 21 2008 // Kansas had 1,616 tornadoes, 11 of them were F4 tornadoes and nine were categorized as F5. … The number of tornadoes reported has gone up over 50 percent. Much has been written in the last six weeks about the 2008...
Texas High Court: Contractor Not at Fault in Jail Death
Aug 21 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the descendents of a man who was found hanged with a telephone cord in a jail cell have no standing to recover damages from the contractor that supplied the telephone. In JCW...
Cindy Downs
Aug 21 2008 // Dallas-based wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent Towerstone Inc. has added four new members to its team. Cindy Downs was added as a senior underwriter in the firm’s MGA unit. Downs formerly was a...
TSLA President Says Sharing Knowledge Is Just One of Many Membership Perks
Aug 21 2008 // Lana Parks says her managing general agency, The Parks Group, bought a new computer system after a fellow member of the Texas Surplus Lines Association shared with her their experience and knowledge of the system....
The Old Switcheroo
Aug 21 2008 // Declarations “[W]ith Oklahoma City having a higher metropolitan population, I thought it would have been the other way around.” – Officer Craig Murray of the Tulsa Police Department. A recent report...
Business Moves
Aug 21 2008 // Woodlands Financial, Austin Indemnity The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) will acquire the renewal rights of the personal lines homeowners business of Austin Indemnity Lloyds Insurance Company (AILIC), effective Aug. 15,...
Colorado Ranks High on Tornado Charts
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
New Markets
Aug 21 2008 // New Markets The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Builders Risk and Affiliated...
Allstate Targets Texas’ Uninsured Drivers
Aug 20 2008 // Allstate has launched Allstate Blue in Texas, an insurance product aimed at uninsured drivers. The company said Allstate Blue is its seventh statewide product launch in 11 months. It has been estimated that as many as one...
Flooding Recedes in South Texas After Foot of Rain
Aug 20 2008 // The main highway in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley was open to traffic again Aug. 19 as flooding receded following a deluge of up to 13 inches of rain across southern Texas. The torrential rain flooded an estimated 750...
Texas-Based CAA Adds Garrett Insurance Agency
Aug 19 2008 // Garrett Insurance Agency Inc. has joined Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) as its 36th member agency. Garrett Insurance Agency was established in Kerrville, Texas, in 1918 by W. G. Garrett Jr. and L. D....
AG: New Identity Theft Scam Targets Texas Debit Card Users
Aug 15 2008 // The Texas Attorney General’s Office reports that a new identity theft scam is targeting users of the Texas Debit Card, or EPPICard, to access child support payments. should beware of that targets EPPICard users. The...
Texas-based American National to Challenge Utah Jury Verdict
Aug 14 2008 // Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company and its subsidiaries American National Property and Casualty Company and American National General Insurance Company plan to fight a jury verdict in a case related...
Harris County D.A. Considers Criminal Charges Against Bus Owner
Aug 13 2008 // Criminal charges were being considered against a Houston motorcoach owner and president whose bus crashed in north Texas killing 17 Vietnamese Catholics on their way to a religious festival in Missouri, according to a...
New Disaster Center Opened in South Texas to Help With Dolly Claims
Aug 13 2008 // A news disaster recovery center has been opened in Sebastian, Texas, with Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) staff on hand to assist South Texas consumers with Hurricane Dolly-related insurance issues. The new DRC opens...
