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Texas Regulators Urge Coastal Residents to Review Insurance Coverages
May 12 2006 // As hurricane season approaches, officials at the Texas Department of Insurance are reminding all Gulf Coast home and business owners that it is important to periodically review their insurance policies to ensure that...
Texas Auto Insurance 101 Video Now Available Online
May 11 2006 // The easiest way to learn about auto insurance in Texas is now just a click away, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. An 18-minute video produced by ICT entitled, Auto Insurance 101, has been video streamed and can...
Three Dead in North Texas Tornado
May 11 2006 // Late-night tornadoes swept through rural North Texas on May 9, killing three people, hospitalizing 10 and reducing homes to bare concrete slabs, officials said. An elderly couple were found dead in a destroyed home in the...
Texas Senate Approves Tax and Education Reform Bill
May 11 2006 // The Texas Senate passed a measure late on May 10 that would cut local school property taxes by one-third over the next two years, put more money into Texas schools, increase equity between districts, and raise teacher...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement 2006-02 Available Online
May 10 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-02 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Division of Workers’ Compensation. The...
Texas Surplus Lines Group Heads to Calif. for Mid-Year Meeting in July
May 10 2006 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA) will be hosting its 2006 Mid-Year Meeting July 23-26 at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, Calif. TSLA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Speakers scheduled for this...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Publishes Plan to Implement Reforms
May 9 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced it has published a Strategic Management Plan to define how the DWC will be organized and carry out reforms of the workers’...
TDI Offers Tips for Storm Season
May 9 2006 // As the recent severe storms across Texas have shown, a disaster can occur in any part of the state and often with little or no warning. Insurance offers financial protection against damage from natural disasters, but you...
Crews Work to Clean up Storm Damage in Central Texas
May 9 2006 // City officials in Austin, Texas, deployed garbage trucks to collect spoiled food in areas of the city where residents had no power for up to three days. Utility crews scrambled to repair power lines and trim trees on...
People and Places
May 8 2006 // Frank Vaccaro was named vice president of Information Services for Dallas-based Republic Companies Group Inc. He will report to Parker Rush, Republic’s president and CEO. Vaccaro most recently was assistant vice...
Texas lawmakers close in on tax reform
May 8 2006 // Adhering to the Texas Tax Reform Commission’s recommendations, five bills aimed at providing long-term property tax relief passed the Texas House of Representatives in late April. While the tax reform legislation...
New Markets
May 8 2006 // HO-3 Homeowners in TexasTITLE: Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an...
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association: Challenges and solutions
May 8 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season is looming and the insurance industry already sees dark clouds on the horizon. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under-funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall...
Texas lawmakers close in on tax reform
May 8 2006 // News Currents Adhering to the Texas Tax Reform Commission’s recommendations, five bills aimed at providing long-term property tax relief passed the Texas House of Representatives in late April. While the tax reform...
10 Texas lawmakers close in on tax reform
May 8 2006 // Although it’s not perfect, agent groups support Perry-Sharp plan 10 Louisiana after the storms Insurance issues top lawmakers’ agenda 10 In case of emergency Get out fast but make sure documents are...
People
May 8 2006 // Frank Vaccaro was named vice president of Information Services for Dallas-based Republic Companies Group Inc. He will report to Parker Rush, Republic’s president and CEO. Vaccaro most recently was assistant vice...
New Markets
May 8 2006 // HO-3 Homeowners in Texas Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an all-perils...
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association: Challenges and solutions
May 8 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season is looming and the insurance industry already sees dark clouds on the horizon. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under-funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall...
Texas Mutual Appoints Wagner VP of Underwriting
May 5 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company appointed Larry Wagner as its new vice president of underwriting. Wagner will serve as the company’s chief underwriting officer and oversee its loss prevention efforts. Wagner has 30...
Texas Agent Group Supports Increase in Windstorm Limits
May 4 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced its support of the proposal by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) to increase commercial and government building limits to $3 million. IIAT Executive...
