Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Agent Honored by National Republican Congressional Committee
Aug 29 2006 // Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that Kenneth Threlkeld, a long-time member of IIAT and founder of Threlkeld & Company Insurance in Tyler, Texas, was named the 2006 Republican of the Year from Texas by...
Ahrens Named Health Care Provider Ombudsman for Texas DOI
Aug 27 2006 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin appointed Jennifer Ahrens as Health Care Provider Ombudsman for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). Ahrens, formerly general counsel and Advisor for the Governor’s...
Intracorp Workers’ Comp HCN Certified by Texas Department of Insurance
Aug 24 2006 // Philadelphia, Pa.-based Intracorp announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has certified it as a workers’ compensation health care network (WCHCN). So far, the department has approved nine networks, including...
Texas Agent Group to Hold 2nd Annual Small Agency Conference in Oct.
Aug 23 2006 // 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 Agents of...
Annual Texas Workers’ Comp Conference Set for December 4-5
Aug 23 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold its annual Workers’ Compensation Conference on December 4-5, 2006 in Austin. The conference will be held at the Doubletree...
MHBT, Fireman’s Fund Award $13K to Texas Fire Department
Aug 22 2006 // Dallas-based independent insurance agency McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company awarded the Fairview (Texas) Fire Department a $13,370 grant to purchase a specialized air...
Texas Workers’ Compensation Network Expansions Approved
Aug 22 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company and Concentra announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved the expansion of Texas Mutual’s Texas Star Network and Concentra’s Health Care Network (HCN). Texas...
Texas AG Says Hotel and Owner Exploited Hurricane Evacuees
Aug 21 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he has sued an economy motel operator for charging exorbitant rates to evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in September 2005. The suit alleges the Lone Star Motel in Waco, Texas,...
It Figures
Aug 21 2006 // 160 The number of demolition permits issued in Lake Charles, La., this year, almost twice the number issued in all of 2005. Officials believe that number will go even higher as hurricane-related insurance claims are...
Oklahoma, Texas have most uninsured children
Aug 21 2006 // Arkansas led the nation in the reducing the number of uninsured children in that state between 1997 and 2004, but Texas and Oklahoma lagged behind the rest — ranking last and next to last, respectively, in the...
Texas agent duplicates first ever hole-in-one
Aug 21 2006 // When a State Farm agent from Lubbock, Texas, entered the insurance business at 27-years-old, he never dreamed that his love of golf could make him one of the more famous insurance agents nearly 25 years later. But when...
Texas agent duplicates first ever hole-in-one
Aug 21 2006 // When a State Farm agent from Lubbock, Texas, entered the insurance business at 27-years-old, he never dreamed that his love of golf could make him one of the more famous insurance agents nearly 25 years later. But when...
Hearing Set for Texas Windstorm Pool Reinsurance Request
Aug 18 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing for Aug. 22, 2006, at 10:00 a.m., for Docket No. 2643: Consideration of a petition by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) requesting approval of...
Texas’ IES Continues to Expand Online Quoting System
Aug 18 2006 // Keller, Texas-based Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency announced the continued expansion of its online quoting facility. With the addition of the 1-4 Family Dwelling product, IES now has eight products available for...
Wildfire Injuries, Deaths on Rise in Georgia, Other Southern States
Aug 17 2006 // Wildfire-related injuries and fatalities are on the rise this season in Georgia and some other states, with sprawling suburban growth, dry conditions and changes in land-use patterns contributing to the problem. With urban...
Presidential Disaster Declaration Approved for El Paso, Texas
Aug 17 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office announced that a federal disaster declaration for El Paso has been approved by President Bush as a result of recent flooding in the area. “This disaster declaration means much...
FEMA to Repay Nearly $56M to Texas for Hurricane Costs
Aug 16 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse an additional $55.89 million to Houston and the Texas Department of Public Safety for costs associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said. Houston will...
Occupational Fatalities Increased in Texas in 2005
Aug 14 2006 // In 2005, Texas recorded a 12.5 percent increase in work-related fatalities, according to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). A total of 495 fatal occupational injuries occurred...
Texas Mutual Promotes Gallagher and Walsh
Aug 14 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it has promoted Cecily Gallagher to senior vice president of underwriting and actuarial services and Mitch Walsh to vice president of underwriting systems. Gallagher will oversee...
Texas Clarifies Rules on Designated Doctors, Peer Reviewers
Aug 9 2006 // The qualifications and functions of designated doctors and peer reviewers in the Texas workers’ compensation system are clarified in rules adopted by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in late...
