Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Keller Named Executive Vice President of Colemont-Texas
Jun 19 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers of Texas announced that Joy Keller has rejoined their brokerage operations effective June 1, 2007, as executive vice president. Keller will be responsible for strategic business development and...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Slow death for coastal windstorm bill in last days of Texas session In the waning days of the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, marked by a tumultuous, unsuccessful struggle to oust the current Speaker of the House of...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Swingle named president of IIAT; Elbert and Branniff honored The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas introduced new officers for the coming year at its 110th Annual Conference & Trade Show, held in early June in San...
People
Jun 18 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) hired David T. White as director of internal audit. White will be responsible for providing overall direction for the internal audit function. He was previously audit unit...
Anatomy of a misunderstanding: Is Texas a direct-action state?
Jun 18 2007 // One of the hallmarks of Texas insurance law is that Texas, unlike Louisiana and a handful of other states, is not a “direct-action” state. This simply means that a third-party claimant/plaintiff cannot bring a...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Swingle named president of IIAT; Elbert and Branniff honored The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas introduced new officers for the coming year at its 110th Annual Conference & Trade Show, held in early June in San...
Texas Approves 14 Companies to Self Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Jun 15 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation...
Texas Will Change Workers’ Comp Disability Management Requirements
Jun 13 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that a workers’ compensation rule to require treatment planning for injured employees (28 Texas Administrative Code §137.300) will be repealed. This rule was adopted along...
Prospective Review of Texas Medical Care Rule to be Repealed
Jun 12 2007 // As the result of the adoption of treatment guidelines for the workers’ compensation system, the Texas Department of has announced that the prospective review of medical care not requiring preauthorization (PRM) rule...
Texas Mid-Year Property/Casualty Symposium Set for July 12
Jun 12 2007 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) will present the 15th Annual 2007 Mid-Year Property & Casualty Insurance Symposium on July 12, in Austin,...
Does Reform Matter? Look at Texas
Jun 11 2007 // Do policy changes like deregulation and tort reform really matter? Some people wonder because the costs of over regulation or a legal system run amok are largely hidden. They are no less real than the costs of taxation, of...
Texas School Officials Plead Innocent in Corruption Case
Jun 11 2007 // Six people, including a Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (Texas) schools superintendent and two school board members, pleaded innocent on June 8 to a sweeping federal indictment alleging cash, trips, and gifts were swapped for votes...
IIAT Introduces Officers, Award Winners at Annual Conference
Jun 8 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas introduced its new officers for the coming year at its 110th Annual Conference & Trade Show, held recently in San Antonio. The organization also recognized the winners of two...
School Officials in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Face Corruption Charges
Jun 7 2007 // The superintendent of a Rio Grande Valley (Texas) school district, several school board members and others face charges alleging they accepted more than $600,000 in bribes to steer contracts to certain businesses, federal...
Progressive, Asi Lloyds Partner to Offer Discounts in Texas
Jun 6 2007 // Progressive County Mutual, a member of the Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, and ASI Lloyds announced they will each offer discounts on their products to Texans who buy both through a local independent insurance...
Texas to Host Southern Workers’ Comp Administrators Meeting
Jun 5 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance and Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts are hosting the 59th Annual Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators (SAWCA) Convention on July...
Texas AG cracks down on lender for ID theft exposure
Jun 4 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ohio-based CNG Financial Corporation and subsidiaries Check ‘n Go of Texas Inc. and Southwestern & Pacific Specialty Finance Inc. have been systematically exposing their...
People and Places
Jun 4 2007 // National Insurance Partners Inc. (NIP), a Texas-based risk management and financial solutions firm, has appointed William E. Harrison, Jr. as president. Harrison brings 16 years of experience in the insurance industry to...
Declarations
Jun 4 2007 // Declarations If they can do it “Forty-nine other states feel comfortable with their departments of insurance regulating ratemaking.” — Louisiana Sen. Julie Quinn, R-Metairie. The Senate passed a...
People
Jun 4 2007 // National Insurance Partners Inc. (NIP), a Texas-based risk management and financial solutions firm, has appointed William E. Harrison, Jr. as president. Harrison brings 16 years of experience in the insurance industry to...
