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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...

Hallmark Files for Public Offering; Elects New CEO

Aug 9 2006 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., an insurance holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed...

Kemper Auto and Home Aims to Relieve Texas Select Policyholders

Aug 8 2006 // Kemper Auto and Home announced that it is participating in the effort to help policyholders of Texas Select Lloyds Insurance Company make the adjustment away from the recently liquidated insurer to a new insurer. The...

Texas Mutual Announces Manufacturers Purchasing Group

Aug 8 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Association of Manufacturers (TAM). The group provides qualifying members with a competitive option for workers’...

People and Places

Aug 7 2006 // Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP named Kyle Moss a partner in the firm. Moss, previously employee benefits director in MHBT’s Dallas office, is responsible for the production and servicing of MHBT’s...

Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen

Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for thefts California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...

Langford receives ICT’s Raymond Mauk Award

Aug 7 2006 // James Langford, an assistant vice president at the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, received the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award July 13, at the 14th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium. Langford becomes...

Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholders

Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...

Texas denies State Farm rate hike

Aug 7 2006 // Texas insurance officials on July 21 rejected proposed homeowner rate increases by State Farm, the state’s largest home insurer. State Farm had filed for a pair of statewide rate increases on May 31: a 9.1 percent...

Vesta liquidation by Texas felt from Florida to Mass.

Aug 7 2006 // Some 70,000 Florida, 150,000 Texas, 5,200 Massachusetts and 11,000 New Jersey policyholders are among those affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its subsidiaries. Texas regulators placed the company...

Hawaii obtains reinsurance to take control of Vesta subsidiary

Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...

Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen

Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...

Langford receives ICT’s Raymond Mauk Award

Aug 7 2006 // James Langford, an assistant vice president at the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, received the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award July 13, at the 14th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium. Langford becomes...

News Currents

Aug 7 2006 // Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholders Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the...

Aug 7 2006 // People Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP named Kyle Moss a partner in the firm. Moss, previously employee benefits director in MHBT’s Dallas office, is responsible for the production and servicing of...

Texas denies State Farm rate hike

Aug 7 2006 // Texas insurance officials on July 21 rejected proposed homeowner rate increases by State Farm, the state’s largest home insurer. State Farm had filed for a pair of statewide rate increases on May 31: a 9.1 percent...

Hawaii obtains reinsurance to take control of Vesta subsidiary

Aug 7 2006 // News Currents Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as...