Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hallmark Completes Acquisition of Texas General Agency
Jan 31 2006 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc. announced the completion of its previously disclosed acquisition of Texas General Agency Inc. and certain affiliates. TGA is a managing general agency involved in the marketing and...
Texas Court Sides with Allstate in Rita Evacuee Expenses Case
Jan 26 2006 // A state district judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled Allstate will not have to cover the living expenses of evacuees displaced from their homes by Hurricane Rita if their homes were not damaged, the Houston Chronicle and the...
Insurers Urge New Bonding Measures for Texas Cat Fund
Jan 26 2006 // Members of the Association of Fire And Casualty Companies of Texas (AFACT) are recommending new bonding measures that would prepare the state for the start of what’s expected to be another turbulent hurricane...
Texas Comptroller Says Construction Commission Favors Builders
Jan 25 2006 // The Texas Residential Construction Commission is acting as a “builder protection agency” and has no power to force homebuilders to repair construction defects in new houses, according to state Comptroller...
TDI Posts December Enforcements
Jan 25 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during December 2005. The actions include two license revocations, one license denial and fines and...
Texas DWC Posts Updated Forms and Notices Online
Jan 24 2006 // Forms and notices used by Texas workers’ compensation system participants recently were updated to reflect the new administration of the system by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’...
Texas Workers’ Comp Brown Bag Session Scheduled for Feb. 8
Jan 24 2006 // The Bryan/College Station Field Office of the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation is hosting a Brown Bag Educational Session for health care providers, employers, human resource...
Springing Back
Jan 23 2006 // In the insurance world catastrophes pretty much defined what 2005 was all about; 2004, as well, for that matter. As devastating as all the hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes were for the people who suffered from them,...
Surplus Line Market: Speculations for 2006
Jan 23 2006 // AUTHOR: By Susan McKenna Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to almost 15 percent of...
Texas Governor to address agents at management seminar
Jan 23 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry will deliver a special luncheon address at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ 43rd Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar. Nearly 400 of the state’s most progressive and influential...
Arson suspected in Texas wildfires
Jan 23 2006 // Some 70 fires thought to be work of arsonists Many of the wildfires that plagued Texas during the first half of January 2006 may have been started intentionally, according to the Texas Forest Service. Some 70 wildfires in...
People & Places
Jan 23 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas elected James Langford as chairman of its Board of Directors effective Jan. 1, 2006. Langford is the assistant vice president of compliance, regulatory and governmental affairs, and training...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 23 2006 // Health care costs in the Texas workers’ compensation system are among the highest in the nation. Furthermore, studies suggest that one out of every four injured employees does not return to work. In an effort to...
Editor’s Note: Springing Back
Jan 22 2006 // Despite losses from the 2005 hurricane season, property and casualty insurance company failures de-clined 44 percent from the previous year. In the insurance world catastrophes pretty much defined what 2005 was all about;...
People
Jan 22 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas elected James Langford as chairman of its Board of Directors effective Jan. 1, 2006. Langford is the assistant vice president of compliance, regulatory and governmental affairs, and training...
News Currents
Jan 22 2006 // Surplus Line Market: Speculations for 2006 Experts agree. The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Who can argue with the success of this niche-based market that has risen from 4 percent in 1984 to...
Texas governor to address agents at management seminar
Jan 22 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry will deliver a special luncheon address at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ 43rd Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar. Nearly 400 of the state’s most progressive and influential...
Business Moves
Jan 22 2006 // American National Bank of Texas; Sleeper Sewell & Co. The American National Bank of Texas of Terrell, Texas, has acquired Dallas-based insurance agency Sleeper, Sewell & Company. Led by President and CEO Robert...
Arson suspected in Texas wildfires
Jan 22 2006 // Many of the wildfires that plagued Texas during the first half of January 2006 may have been started intentionally, according to the Texas Forest Service. Some 70 wildfires in Texas are thought to have been started by...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 22 2006 // In certain situations, employees may seek care outside the network. An employee who has a pre-existing relationship with an HMO doctor may receive treatment for a workers’ compensation injury from that...
