Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Employers Insurance Group Expanding in Arizona, Texas
Jul 27 2006 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Insurance Group announced it is expanding its market for workers’ compensation insurance and services to small businesses throughout the states of Texas and Arizona. Insurance is being...
Republic Assists Agents in Moving Texas Select Policyholders
Jul 26 2006 // The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced it is accepting from independent agents policies of former Texas Select customers. The Texas Department of Insurance has mandated that all Texas Select policies will be...
Texas Mutual Pays $100 Million in Policyholder Dividends
Jul 26 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it has begun distributing about $100 million in individual dividends. Approximately 34,000 policyholders will receive a share of the dividend payout, the largest in company...
FEMA Working With Apartment Owners on Evacuee Recertification in Texas
Jul 25 2006 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it is working with the Texas Apartment Association and rental housing owners to reach Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have not recertified for continued...
Protecting residential construction risks with OCIPs
Jul 24 2006 // Residential construction throughout the country surged to an all-time high in 2005, according to the United States Commerce Department. And though economists forecasted a slowing of construction and sales activity in 2006,...
Western states face mold danger despite dry climate
Jul 24 2006 // Contrary to popular belief, climate is not a good gauge for mold risk, according to a ranking of states at risk for mold contamination on commercial and residential property. Areas with dry climates such as Nevada and...
Bid deadline for verification system looms
Jul 24 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance revised the bid deadline for competitive offers from individuals and/or entities for the establishment of a motor vehicle financial responsibility program in accordance with the terms of...
‘Adequate rate for the risk’ a big concern for industry executives
Jul 24 2006 // The question of how to structure property insurance rates adequately in coastal zones while still making it affordable for people to live and work there is becoming an increasingly important one to insurers and consumers...
IIAT honors Fitzhugh for 60 years of state conference attendance
Jul 24 2006 // Third-generation and longtime Waco independent insurance agent Champe Fitzhugh Jr., was honored in mid-June by his insurance profession’s state association, the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT), for...
Texas Denies State Farm Rate Hike
Jul 24 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...
California, Florida, Texas Lead Nation in Motorcycle Thefts
Jul 24 2006 // California (9,110 thefts) leads the nation in motorcycle theft rates in 2005, with Florida (6,324) following in second, and Texas (5,755)coming in third, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Other states...
Safeco and Its Agents Ready to Help Stranded Texas Select Customers
Jul 24 2006 // Safeco Insurance is working with its 536 independent Texas agents to provide quality replacement homeowners coverage for customers stranded by the failed Texas Select Lloyds company. “With the clock ticking for...
IIAT honors Fitzhugh for 60 years of state conference attendance
Jul 24 2006 // Third generation Waco agent going strong at 89 Third-generation and longtime Waco independent insurance agent Champe Fitzhugh Jr., was honored in mid-June by his insurance profession’s state association, the...
Western states face mold danger despite dry climate
Jul 24 2006 // Contrary to popular belief, climate is not a good gauge for mold risk, according to a ranking of states at risk for mold contamination on commercial and residential property. Areas with dry climates such as Nevada and...
Vesta subsidiaries to be liquidated
Jul 24 2006 // On July 18 the Texas Department of Insurance announced that Vesta Fire In-surance Company (Vesta Fire) and its Texas subsidiary insurance companies were being placed into liquidation. Notices were sent out to agents to...
HIGHER WINDSTORM RATES
Jul 24 2006 // Although many in the insurance industry don’t think they are going up enough, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (www.twia.org) is set to raise its rates effective Sept. 1 for new and renewal policies....
Coastal communities only halfway ready for a major storm
Jul 24 2006 // Survey finds Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia most prepared Average insured homeowners throughout Gulf and Atlantic coastal communities have taken just half the steps which would best position them to recover...
People and Places
Jul 24 2006 // Privately owned insurance and risk management firm McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT), announced that Chuck Hoffmann re-joined the firm’s Dallas office as senior vice president of Personal Insurance...
‘Adequate rate for the risk’ a big concern for industry executives
Jul 24 2006 // The question of how to structure property insurance rates adequately in coastal zones while still making it affordable for people to live and work there is becoming an increasingly important one to insurers and consumers...
Bid deadline for verification system looms
Jul 24 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance revised the bid deadline for competitive offers from individuals and/or entities for the establishment of a motor vehicle financial responsibility program in accordance with the terms of...
