Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Auto Exec. to Discuss Texas Market at Dallas All-Industry Day
Nov 15 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies Executive Vice President and COO Mark Blackburn will offer his view of Texas, the nation’s third-largest property and casualty market, at the 2007 Dallas...
Texas Construction Company Funds Safety Scholarship
Nov 14 2007 // The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Region III, which encompasses Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, announced that Austin, Texas-based McComb Construction Company donated $4,000 toward the establishment of a...
Texas Physicians Group: New Comp Rules Benefit Workers
Nov 13 2007 // New rules proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will help injured workers in finding and receiving care from a physician, according to the Texas Medical Association. Among...
Sign Industry Group Open to all Licensed Texas Agents
Nov 12 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Texas Sign Association (TSA) purchasing group, TSA Comp Group Inc., is now open group. Qualifying on-premise sign product manufacturers, sign supply distributors and...
Texas Work Comp Treatment Planning Pilot Project Launched
Nov 9 2007 // Several Texas workers’ compensation insurance carriers are participating in a pilot project with health care providers to initiate treatment planning for workers’ compensation injuries, according to the Texas...
Texas Mutual Distributes $2M in Dividends to First-Year Policyholders
Nov 8 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it is distributing approximately $2 million in dividends among first-year policyholders with favorable loss ratios. The dividends represent the final component of the...
State Audit: Texas Slow in Delivering Federal Aid to Hurricane Victims
Nov 5 2007 // Texas has used only 2 percent of more than $500 million in federal aid for homeowners and communities hit by Hurricane Rita more than two years ago, a state audit found. State Auditor John Keel found that more than 4,000...
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Nov 4 2007 // Austin, Texas-based Medicus Insurance appointed John Flanagan as its new Regional Market manager for the Midwest. Flanagan will be based in Chicago. Flanagan brings over five years of experience in the professional...
ACE pays $4.5 million to states
Nov 4 2007 // ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to state officials. The monies will be divided among eight states and the District of Columbia. Florida’s Chief...
States under cover
Nov 4 2007 // Natural catastrophes — and the affordability and availability of property insurance in disaster-prone areas — have been on center stage in coastal states from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast. This fall, the...
Texas Comp Division Sets Payroll Requirements for Seasonal Workers
Nov 2 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the adjusted annual payroll requirement of an employer for the coverage of seasonal workers is $46,423. This gross payroll amount...
Insurance Office Worker in Texas Accidentally Shoots His Legs
Nov 1 2007 // A 47-year-old man was shot in both legs when he accidentally discharged a handgun while sitting in his cubicle at an insurance office in Fort Worth, Texas, police said. The man, who hasn’t been publicly identified,...
Texas Sept. Enforcements Result in Nearly $376K in Fines, Restitution
Oct 30 2007 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during September 2007 include 12 license revocations, three license denials and fines and restitution totaling $375,983, the Texas...
Declarations
Oct 27 2007 // The rules of attraction “The program is an effort to attract more property and casualty providers to our state and to increase the private market capacity by 15 percent.” — Louisiana Commissioner of...
Business Moves
Oct 27 2007 // Watkins Insurance Group Austin, Texas-based independent insurance agency, Watkins Insurance Group, has acquired Matz Insurance Agency of Austin. Established in 2002, Matz offers both commercial and personal lines of...
State Farm’s 9.1% rate hike in Texas rejected
Oct 27 2007 // Two administrative law judges in Texas on Oct. 5 rejected State Farm’s plan to increase homeowner insurance rates, calling the hike too excessive. State Farm Lloyds Inc. had appealed to the State Office of...
8 La.’s $100 million incentive program begins
Oct 27 2007 // State hopes to increase private market property coverage 8 State Farm Texas rate hike denied Administrative law judges say 9.1% is too much 8 Insurance complaints decline in Texas Homeowners line dropped the...
Unpaid traffic fines in Texas invalidate licenses
Oct 27 2007 // More than 750,000 Texans are driving without valid licenses because they haven’t paid stiff annual penalties – as much as $2,000 for three years – added to various traffic violations in 2004. The state...
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Oct 27 2007 // Kyle Stevens was elected the new president and chief executive officer of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, a wholesale broker and managing general agency with offices in California and Texas. Stevens has served...
Texas seeing fewer insurance complaints
Oct 27 2007 // For the fourth year in a row Texans filed fewer complaints against their insurance companies with the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). The Insurance Council of Texas reported that TDI’s Consumer Protection...
