Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Feb 24 2008 // Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC, a Los Angeles-based wholesale and specialty insurance broker focusing on high-risk, hard-to-place coverage, has opened a new office in...
Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Rita Fraud
Feb 22 2008 // A Beaumont, Texas man pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FEMA in seeking disaster relief after Hurricane Rita. Wilyum Henderson, 50, entered the plea in federal court in Beaumont. The U.S. Attorney’s...
Texas Workers’ Comp Educational New Rules Sessions Set for March 13
Feb 22 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will present two educational sessions, Newly Revised 2008 Hospital Fee Guidelines and Newly Revised 2008 Medical Fee Guidelines, sponsored by the...
Supreme Court Rejects Allstate Challenge to Texas Repair Shop Law
Feb 21 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court this week 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 high court,...
Regulators Approve Texas Mutual Network Expansion
Feb 20 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance has approved Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s request to expand its workers’ compensation health care network service area, the Austin-based insurer announced. This latest...
Explosion Rocks West Texas Refinery
Feb 19 2008 // An explosion rocked an oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas, Monday morning in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away. According to various press reports, four plant employees were injured and three contract workers...
Texas Grand Jurors Suing to Disclose Evidence in Alleged Arson Case
Feb 15 2008 // Six members of a Houston grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife over a house fire have filed a lawsuit so they can speak about evidence in the case. By law, grand jury proceedings are...
Austin Insurance Day Speaker to Discuss Texas’ Sunset Process
Feb 15 2008 // Chloe Lieberknecht, a policy analyst with the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission will discuss the “Legislative Sunset Process” at the 37th Annual Insurance Day held by the Central Texas Chapter of Chartered...
Texas Physicians Joins Lawsuit to Protect Liability Reforms
Feb 13 2008 // The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003. TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the...
Jury Rejects Cancer Patient’s Claims in Texas Railroad Tie Lawsuit
Feb 13 2008 // Jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 11 rejected a cancer survivor’s claim that toxic chemicals from a Texas railroad tie plant where her husband worked caused the disease that required the removal of her...
OSHA Fines North Texas Company $210K for Safety Violations
Feb 12 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported it has proposed penalties of $210,000 against Kaufman, Texas-based Metroplex Masonry Inc. for allegedly failing to protect...
Texas Urges Verification of Windstorm Insurance Inspectors
Feb 11 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) issued a reminder to consumers that windstorm insurance inspections, which are required for properties to be eligible for wind and hail coverage through the Texas Windstorm Insurance...
Up in Smoke No More
Feb 10 2008 // States aim to prevent residential fires by requiring ‘fire safe’ cigarettes Movies — think Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep” — often make cigarette smoking look glamorous. Of...
AIG Reaches $12.5M Settlment With States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has reached settlements with Florida, West Virginia, seven other states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
Texas Joins Rest of the U.S. in Profitability Upswing of Last Few Years
Feb 10 2008 // I.I.I.’s Hartwig says the state is still one of the riskiest in which to operate The last few years have been good ones for the property casualty insurance industry in terms of profitability. But it’s been a...
New Markets
Feb 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. Private and Parochial Schools Nuts &...
AIG to Pay $12.5M in Settlement with States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing, and...
People
Feb 10 2008 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation hired Michael Page as director of safety and loss prevention. Page previously was director of loss prevention services for Workforce Safety and Insurance in North Dakota...
Business Moves
Feb 10 2008 // ASI Lloyds ASI Lloyds (ASI) of St. Petersburg, Fla., is entering the personal property insurance market in Louisiana. ASI was a recipient of the Insure Louisiana Incentive program. ASI plans to begin writing new homeowners...
AIG to Pay $12.5M in Settlement with States Over Bid-Rigging Allegations
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it had reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
