Latest Texas Headlines
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Vesta Fire and Subsidiaries Headed for Liquidation in Texas
Jul 19 2006 // Vesta Fire Insurance Company (Vesta Fire) and its Texas subsidiary insurance companies have begun issuing notices to agents to cease writing new and renewal insurance business, including homeowners policies for Texas...
Anco Insurance Receives America First President’s Award
Jul 19 2006 // Bryan, Texas-based Anco Insurance Managers LTD announced it has been given the 2006 President’s Award by America First Insurance Company. Ray Jimenez and Mike Hughes of America First made the presentation at...
Texas Mutual Pays $1.7M Dividend to TxOGA Group
Jul 19 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported a $1,789,062 dividend to the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TxOGA) workers’ compensation purchasing group. TxOGA has received over $3.5 million in Texas Mutual group dividends...
Texas Fines Carrier for Late Payment of Workers’ Comp Benefits
Jul 19 2006 // Texas’ State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) recently ordered University Health System to pay a fine of $2,500 to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) for late...
Texas’ Insurance Verification Program Won’t Go Online This Year
Jul 18 2006 // Texas’ proposed program to verify that motorists have auto insurance is on hold until next year while the state figures out the best way to manage the data of 15 million drivers. Officials said the program, which the...
Texas Regulators: Houston ISD and Benefits Firm Took Part in Illegal Deal
Jul 17 2006 // The Houston Independent School District and its employee benefits firm illegally profited from a deal they have with three other school districts, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. New York-based Mercer Human...
Langford Honored With Raymond Mauk Award
Jul 14 2006 // James Langford, an assistant vice president at the Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award July 13, at the 14th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium. Langford...
New Bid Deadline for Texas’ Insurance Verification System Looms
Jul 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance revised the bid deadline competitive offers from individuals and/or entities for the establishment of a motor vehicle financial responsibility program for the verification of whether...
USI Holdings Acquires Texas’ Frank Siddons Insurance
Jul 12 2006 // USI Holdings Corporation, based in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., announced the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Frank Siddons Insurance. The acquisition of this surety and commercial lines broker is expected to contribute...
IIAT Publishes Texas Agency Catastrophe Planning Guide
Jul 12 2006 // After 15 years of quiet, the Texas Gulf Coast woke up last year to the possibility of a windstorm so severe that it could devastate coastal property for years, affect the economy of the entire state, and strain the ability...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement Available Online
Jul 12 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-03 containing a rule adopted by the Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation, the...
Klimek Promoted to Branch Manager at WSS’ Texas Office
Jul 10 2006 // Kyle Stevens, executive vice president of Western Security Surplus, announced that Ron Klimek has been promoted to branch manager of the Dallas office. Stevens explained, “While my role continues to expand, it was...
Survey Shows Texans 50% Ready for Major Hurricane
Jul 7 2006 // Insured homeowners in Eastern and Southern Coastal Texas have, on average, taken roughly 50 percent of the steps to prepare their homes and property to recover from a major hurricane, according to a new Hurricane Readiness...
Texas P/C Symposium to Feature Former La. Commissioner
Jul 7 2006 // Former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner John Wooley will be the luncheon speaker at the 14th annual Mid-Year Property & Casualty Insurance Symposium in Austin, Texas, on July 13. Wooley served as commissioner during...
TWIA Reminds Agents of Binding Procedures, Sept. 1 Rate Increases
Jul 7 2006 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association posted a bulletin on its Web site to assist agents with its coverage binding procedures in the event a hurricane threatens the Texas coast. TWIA said no new or additional coverages...
Texas Mutual Pays $220K Dividend to Social Services Agencies of Texas
Jul 6 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $220,430 dividend for the Social Services Agencies of Texas (SSA) purchasing group. The group dividend is separate from the approximately $100 million in individual dividends that...
Texas AG Shuts Down Unlawful El Paso Air Conditioning Business
Jul 6 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has obtained a temporary restraining order against the owner of an El Paso, Texas, air conditioning business whose faulty installation of residential air conditioning units without a...
Texas Places Vesta Fire Insurance Corp. and Affiliates Into Rehabilitation
Jul 5 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) filed for and obtained an Agreed Order of Rehabilitation and Permanent Injunction from the 126th Judicial Court in Travis County on June 28, 2006, placing Vesta Fire Insurance...
The Logistics Trust of Texas Now Open for Business
Jul 5 2006 // The Logistics Trust of Texas, a workers’ compensation self-insurance group administered by First Cardinal of Texas Ltd, has received approval from the Texas Department of Insurance to begin offering coverage, First...
