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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...

Texas A&M finds disaster preparedness lacking

Sep 4 2006 // Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however, one out of four professionals responsible for corporate disaster preparedness efforts...

Texas A&M finds disaster preparedness lacking

Sep 4 2006 // Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however, one out of four professionals responsible for corporate disaster preparedness efforts...

Transportation activities accounted for most on-job fatalities in 2005

Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...

Business Moves

Sep 4 2006 // IIAT Independent insurance agency principals, key personnel and leading industry vendors will gather in Waco, Texas, in mid-October for the second annual Small Agency Conference sponsored by the Independent Insurance...

News Currents

Sep 4 2006 // There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast....

News Currents

Sep 4 2006 // No ‘pixie dust’ for reform, Texas work comp chief says With that statement Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts introduced his message to a crowd of insurance professionals attending...

Sep 4 2006 // People RISC, based in Dallas, promoted Beth Winstead to senior vice president in its Brokerage Department. Winstead joined RISC in 1997 as a casualty broker and has been one of its most consistent performers since that...

New Markets

Sep 4 2006 // Insurance Agents E&O Nuts & Bolts: London American Professional Liability LLC, a program administrator and MGA, introduced a new professional liability program for insurance agencies. The program is designed for...

Texas A&M finds disaster preparedness lacking

Sep 4 2006 // Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however, one out of four professionals responsible for corporate disaster preparedness efforts...

New Markets

Sep 4 2006 // Security Risks Nuts & Bolts: AI Risk, Lexington Insurance’s Middle Market Unit, has selected Brownyard Programs Ltd. to bring AIG’s GuardSecure product to small- and intermediate-sized private security...