Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
North Texas Agent to Appear on NASCAR
Oct 19 2006 // NASCAR returns to Texas in November for a second race, The Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, and the Brian Vickers #25 GMAC Chevrolet will include the sponsorship of the Al Boenker Insurance Agency. The Al Boenker...
Western Security Surplus Texas Office Moves to Plano
Oct 19 2006 // Kyle Stevens, executive vice president of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, announced that the firm has outgrown its current offices in Dallas and has moved to a larger space in Plano, Texas. Effective Oct. 16,...
Texas Mutual Announces Apartment Association Purchasing Group
Oct 19 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Apartment Association (TAA). The group provides qualifying members with a competitive option for workers’ comp...
Former Texas Commissioner Named President of Life Ins. Companies
Oct 18 2006 // Former Texas Secretary of State and Commissioner of Insurance Elton Bomer has been named president of four insurance companies: American Reserve Life Insurance Co., Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Co., Mid-Continent...
