Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Supreme Court Continues Onslaught of Coverage Decisions
Mar 24 2008 // Since last August, the Texas Supreme Court has issued a half dozen major insurance cases, many on issues pending for years. The Court recently heard argument in key cases involving the insurability of punitive damages in...
5 Years Later, Ohio Has Falling Insurance Rates; Fewer Obstetricians
Mar 20 2008 // When Bobbie Cameron became pregnant with her third child, she reluctantly chose a new doctor to oversee her care. Her longtime physician had dropped out of the birthing business because of soaring malpractice insurance...
Are Punitive Damages Insurable in Texas? High Court: Definitely Maybe
Mar 20 2008 // In Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, the Texas Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, whether punitive damages were insurable in Texas. No. 04-0728, 2008 Tex. LEXIS 123 (Tex. Feb. 15, 2008). The...
Swett & Crawford Names Devries Transportation Underwriter
Mar 19 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Bonnie DeVries as a transportation underwriter, located in the Dallas office. DeVries has extensive experience in transportation underwriting, specializing in local, intermediate and long...
Farmers Files Homeowners Rate Increase in Texas
Mar 18 2008 // Stating it’s the first rate change in two years for its “Texas Family Home Policy,” Farmers Insurance Group, through Texas Farmers Insurance Company, filed a rate increase for the policy with the Texas...
Average Homeowners Policy Rate Comparison is Meaningless
Mar 17 2008 // Despite the insurance industry’s traditional reliance on averages, averages don’t always make sense when comparing premiums. In Texas, as elsewhere, individual premiums are subject to so many variables — from...
State Auto Rolling Out Personal Insurance Products in Texas
Mar 14 2008 // The State Auto Insurance Companies said it will begin offering personal insurance products in Texas on March 15, less than a year after the Columbus, Ohio-based insurer acquired Beacon Insurance Group of Wichita...
Financial Reports Show Texas Insurers Profitable in 2007
Mar 14 2008 // In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call for tougher state regulation on homeowner rates. Financial reports released by the Texas...
Carpenter Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Mar 13 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced Donald Miller of Yoakum on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Miller received one year of probation and was ordered to pay $2,132...
Company Pays $1.9M to Settle Racial Discrimination Case in Texas
Mar 13 2008 // An aviation fueling company with headquarters in New York has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to black and Hispanic workers at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who said they were taunted with hangman’s...
Texas FAIR Plan, Windstorm Association Elect Officers for 2008-2009
Mar 12 2008 // Both the Texas FAIR Plan Association and the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) have elected new officers for 2008-2009. For the Texas FAIR Plan, James Langford, vice president, Texas Farm Bureau Insurance...
Texas Mutual Launches Construction Supply Purchasing Group
Mar 12 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a new workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Construction Supply (TCS). The group offers a workers’ comp option for qualifying supply yards, building material...
Windstorm Liability Limits Increased for Certain Property in Texas
Mar 11 2008 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin recently signed an order increasing the maximum limits of liability from $3,390,000 to $4 million for a commercial or government building insured for wind and hail by the Texas...
New Markets
Mar 10 2008 // 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. Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
New Markets
Mar 10 2008 // 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. Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
New Markets
Mar 10 2008 // 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. Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
People
Mar 10 2008 // Midlands Management Corp. of Oklahoma City named Richard Jonathan Bird as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Bird will assist in leading all aspects of Midlands, including strategic marketing, business...
Two Oklahoma Cities Among 35 Safest in Nation
Mar 10 2008 // Sugarland, Texas, made Top 5 safest list Two Oklahoma cities are among the 35 safest in the nation, according rankings based on the FBI’s uniform crime report. One Texas town, Sugarland, was among the five...
Supreme Court Rejects Allstate Challenge to Texas Repair Shop Law
Mar 10 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court in late February 2008 rejected Allstate Corp.’s challenge to a Texas law that restricts insurance company ownership of auto collision repair shops. Allstate sought review of its case at the...
Average Homeowners Policy Rate Comparison is Meaningless
Mar 10 2008 // Despite the insurance industry’s traditional reliance on averages, averages don’t always make sense when comparing premiums. In Texas, as elsewhere, individual premiums are subject to so many variables — from...
