Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NALICO General Agency Expands with Texas Acquisition
Nov 10 2006 // NALICO General Agency Inc., a subsidiary of Waco, Texas-based NLASCO, announced the asset acquisition of Longhorn General Agency Inc. and Longhorn Insurance Services Inc., effective Nov. 1, 2006. Founded in 1980, Longhorn...
San Antonio Agents Install New Officers
Nov 9 2006 // Brett Morgan was recently installed as the 85th president of the Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio (IIASA). Morgan is senior vice president, Business Insurance and Employee Benefits, for SWBC Insurance...
Data Vendor Selected for Texas Auto Insurance Verification Program
Nov 9 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), serving as lead agency in a joint project with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), and the Texas Department of Information...
Restaurant Association Earns $2M Texas Mutual Dividend
Nov 9 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $2,112,299 dividend to the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) purchasing group. Texas law allows employers in similar industries to reduce their workers’ comp premiums by...
Texas University Students Honored with Scholarships from ICT
Nov 9 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) recently awarded scholarships to 15 university students, each of whom were acknowledged by their professors as exemplary students. The University of North Texas scholarship recipients...
Texas National Western Life Announces 3rd Quarter Earnings
Nov 7 2006 // Ross R. Moody, president of National Western Life Insurance Company, recently announced third quarter 2006 consolidated net earnings of $15.4 million, or $4.22 per diluted share, compared with consolidated net earnings of...
People and Places
Nov 6 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...
Okla. commissioner fights Texas group’s attack ads
Nov 6 2006 // Oklahoma Insurance Com-missioner 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...
Wildlife making highways hazardous
Nov 6 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...
Okla. commissioner fights Texas group’s attack ads
Nov 5 2006 // Oklahoma Insurance Com-missioner 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...
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...
