Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Bulk of Texas Tax Reform Package Passes Senate
May 3 2006 // The Texas Senate has given final approval to House Bills 2, 3, and 4, which propose to change the way the state pays for its public school system. These bills would broaden the business tax, taxing gross receipts of most...
Pierson & Fendley Joins Texas’ CAA
May 2 2006 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pierson & Fendley Insurance Agency LLC of Paris, Texas, joined CAA as its 34th member. “Pierson & Fendley Insurance Agency brings to CAA...
Texas DOI Lists March Enforcement Actions
May 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during March. The actions include five license revocations, three license denials and fines and...
NOAA Aircrew Begins Hurricane Awareness Mission in Texas
May 1 2006 // With the impact of a record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season still etched on the coastline from Texas to Florida, and recovery on the minds of its residents, forecasters from the NOAA National Hurricane Center will...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division to Hold Public Hearing May 10
Apr 27 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a public hearing on Wed., May 10, 2006, in the Tippy Foster Room of the division’s central office located at 7551 Metro Center...
Texas Fraud Committee Warns of Accident ‘Runners’
Apr 27 2006 // You’re involved in a minor traffic accident where there was little damage to either vehicle, no one was hurt, but police were called and a traffic accident report was filled out. Much to your surprise, someone...
