Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Business Moves
Nov 5 2006 // Affirmative Insurance Holdings, USAgencies Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc., Addison, Texas, and privately-held USAgencies L.L.C., based in Baton Rouge, La., announced a definitive agreement under which Affirmative will...
People
Nov 5 2006 // Chris Hughes, with Swingle, Collins & Associates, is the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas. Swingle Collins reported that Hughes joins officer ranks with firm president, Frank Swingle, whose...
Wildlife making highways hazardous
Nov 5 2006 // The increasing number of motorists and deer in Texas are leading to a greater frequency of collisions between the two on the state’s roadways. Cooler weather and the annual rut season should make for even more...
Houston General Insurance Opens for Business in Texas
Nov 3 2006 // Independent insurance agents in Texas have a new option for insuring their best clients. Houston General Insurance Exchange announced that it is now offering personal lines products – including coverage for...
Health Care Costs Rise Faster Than Income in Texas, Report Says
Nov 2 2006 // Health care premiums in Texas rose nearly 71/2 times faster than working families’ incomes over the past six years, according to a report released Oct. 30 by a consumer health advocacy group. Families USA of...
Texas Truck Driver’s Fraud Conviction Nets Jail Time
Nov 1 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Arthur Menard of Spring, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and a Travis County district court sentenced him to 14 months in jail. The...
Feemster Joins Crump’s Texas Team
Nov 1 2006 // Crump Insurance Services Inc. announced that Stevan Feemster has joined their Marketing Team for Texas. He will represent the Austin, Dallas and Houston Crump offices. Feemster has been active in the West Coast insurance...
IIAT Survey Finds Texas Coastal Insurance Market Tighter; More Costly
Oct 31 2006 // Property insurance along the Texas coast is getting harder to find plus premiums and deductibles are increasing, according to results from a survey of independent insurance agents. Respondents are members of the...
Study Identifies High Costs of Doing Business in Mass.
Oct 30 2006 // A new study by a Boston-based think tank shows that Massachusetts firms in nine selected industries including financial services have costs that are on average 20 percent to 30 percent higher than similar companies in...
Okla.’s North American Group Expands with Calif., Texas Acquisitions
Oct 30 2006 // North American Group, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla., announced it has acquired Abilene, Texas-based CIC Insurance Brokers Inc., and Anaheim, Calif.-based CTK Insurance Services Inc. CTK and CIC have each been...
Western Security Surplus adds Texas Coastal Property Coverage
Oct 30 2006 // Ron Klimek, vice president and Dallas branch manager, announced that Western Security Surplus has increased capacity to write coastal property coverage in Texas, including wind and hail, Tier 1 and 2 counties. The property...
Thompson Coe Attorneys Recognized as ‘Best Lawyers in America 2007’
Oct 30 2006 // Two attorneys from Texas-based Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP have been selected to be included in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Brian S. Martin was cited for his achievements in Insurance Law....
Okla. Commissioner Fights Texas Group’s Attack Ads
Oct 30 2006 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland has started her own ad campaign to counter a series of negative TV ads from a Texas group called “Just the Facts America.” Meanwhile, The Oklahoman filed a lawsuit...
Whitney Named AVP at Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Cos.
Oct 26 2006 // Chris Whitney has been named assistant vice president of Sales Operations for the Texas Farm Bureau insurance companies, effective Dec.1, 2006. Whitney, a native of Pampa, Texas, and a former captain of the Texas Tech...
String of Arsons Concerns Residents of Bexar County, Texas Subdivision
Oct 25 2006 // Investigators say arson is suspected in a string of fires that has destroyed four unfinished homes and one newly constructed house all on the same block in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas. A fire early Sunday in the...
States have common, and unique, concerns with homeowners coverage
Oct 23 2006 // The homeowners markets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, while sharing some similarities, all have their own special considerations and concerns. Oklahoma has some of the highest property insurance rates in the...
Former insurance company execs get 6 years
Oct 23 2006 // A federal judge sentenced two men to six years in prison for their roles in the failure of a Tulsa, Okla., insurance company, which had repercussions in both Texas and Oklahoma. Besides prison terms for convictions on...
Oct 23 2006 // People Pat Arthur, a partner in the Dallas insurance and risk management firm McQueary, Henry, Bowles, Troy, has been appointed president-elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas. He will be responsible for...
Fiess: Texas Supreme Court speaks
Oct 23 2006 // Despite the mandate of new mold endorsements and adoption of new forms, there has been a great deal of continuing litigation in Texas under the Homeowners B form as to when mold is covered. The focus has been on the...
