Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Work Comp Reform: A Lot Done, More to Go
Sep 21 2006 // Speaker after speaker at the Sept. 20 workers’ compensation conference presented by the Insurance Council of Texas recognized that while reform of Texas’ workers’ compensation system has come a long way,...
Texas Work Comp Commissioner Betts Approves 17 Companies to Self-Insure
Sep 20 2006 // Seventeen companies with approximately 82,000 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Houston Social Services Business Owner Sentenced in Medicaid Fraud Scheme
Sep 20 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a four-year sentence handed down recently against Vincent C. Agu, 55, the owner of a Spring family services counseling clinic located at his residence known as Innovations...
CompGroup AGC Earns Largest Group Dividend in Texas Mutual History
Sep 19 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company recently announced a $2,672,136 dividend to the CompGroup AGC purchasing group. The insurer said it was the largest single group dividend payout in its history. The Texas Department of...
Texas Mutual Pays $773K Dividend to Lone Star Auto Dealers
Sep 18 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a group dividend of $773,720 to the Lone Star Auto Dealers Association (LSA) purchasing group. LSA has earned over $1.2 million in group dividends since 2002. Group dividends are...
State Farm Dropping Some Coastal Policies in Texas
Sep 18 2006 // State Farm has announced that it will not renew coverage for 6,000 personal and commercial policyholders along the Texas coast starting next year. The state’s largest insurer said Sept. 14 that it will not renew...
Texas Physicians Ask Court to Ban Chiropractors from Certain Procedures
Sep 15 2006 // A chiropractor is not a medical doctor, and a state agency has no legal authority to blur the line between them, the Texas Medical Association contends in a lawsuit challenging recent decisions by the Texas Board of...
Four Texas Cities to Receive Smoke Alarms
Sep 15 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), Travelers Insurance Company and First Alert have joined together to place smoke alarms into the homes of limited income and elderly...
Registration Open for Annual Texas Workers’ Comp Conference
Sep 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation is holding registration for its annual Workers’ Compensation Conference on December 4-5, 2006, in Austin. Participants can register for the...
MHBT Adds Utay to Personal Insurance Professionals Group
Sep 13 2006 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) announced that Hoyt Utay has joined the firm’s Dallas, Texas, office as sales professional in Personal Insurance Professionals, a division of MHBT that was formed to provide the...
Association Says Texas Liability Reforms a Positive for Physicians, Patients
Sep 13 2006 // The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), a national trade association that represents doctor-owned and/or operated medical professional liability insurance companies, reported that medical liability reforms...
Texas Work Comp Division Goes Paperless with Complaint Resolution Process
Sep 13 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has changed its complaint resolution process by going “paperless,” using VisiFLOW document management software and TDI’s...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division to Hold Hearing on Disability Management
Sep 12 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a public hearing on Oct. 5, 2006, in Conference Room 100 (Commissioner’s Conference Room) of TDI’s Central Office located in...
Texas AG: Debt Settlement Firm to Change Business Practices
Sep 12 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced an agreement with a Dallas-based “debt settlement” company that will result in refunds to consumers who filed or will file complaints about fees for services...
Texas Insurer Group to Host Legislative Forum in Nov.
Sep 11 2006 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service will host a Public Policy Forum, “A Preview of the 2007 Legislative Session,” on Nov. 10, 2006, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The event will offer 2.0...
Texas Liability Reforms of 2003 Paying Off, Study Says
Sep 8 2006 // Sick and injured Texans now have more physicians who are more willing and able to give them the medical care they need, closer to home thanks to the state’s 2003 health care liability reforms, according to the...
Texas AG Names New Deputy First Assistant
Sep 7 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has named Jeff Rose as Deputy First Assistant Attorney General. Rose has served as chief of the Civil General Litigation Division at the Office of the Attorney General since 2003,...
Texas Agent Group to Sponsor CPIA Designation Program
Sep 6 2006 // The American Insurance Marketing and Sales (AIMS) Society welcomed the Texas Insurance Professionals/Professional Insurance Agents of Texas as a sponsor of the Certified Professional Insurance Agent professional...
Texas Regulators Announce July 2006 Enforcement Actions
Sep 5 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during July. The actions include 24 license revocations, one license denial and fines and...
Texas Designated Driver Service Keeps Drunks Off Roadways
Sep 5 2006 // Hoping to keep potential drunken drivers off the road, a new designated driver service is offering rides home for its customers and their cars. PointZero8, which started giving rides in San Antonio last week, sends two...
