Latest Texas Headlines
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The Facts About Credit Information and Insurance
Feb 21 2005 // The use of credit history, one of many underwriting tools, is not a new concept and one that has received strict scrutiny from insurance regulators and consumer advocates around the country. Some insurers have used...
TWCC Approves Self-Insure Certificates of Authority for 18 Companies
Feb 18 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported it approved the initial application for a Certificate of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by one private employer and the reapplications for...
Ledbetter Confirmed as TWCC Employer Commissioner
Feb 17 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported the Texas Senate has confirmed William A. Ledbetter, Jr. to serve as an Employer Commissioner of the TWCC. Gov. Rick Perry appointed Ledbetter to the Commission in...
Unlicensed Health Care Provider Indicted in Texas
Feb 17 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, announced an indictment against Don Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. Bauer, who had not held a valid...
Consumer Groups Urge Texas Governor to Appoint New Insurance Commissioner
Feb 17 2005 // Two Texas consumer organizations—the Center for Economic Justice (CEJ) and Texas Watch—announced they are calling on Gov. Rick Perry to appoint a new insurance commissioner to replace José Montemayor who asked in...
Medical Protective Won’t Seek Overall Rate Increase in Texas This Year
Feb 16 2005 // The Medical Protective Company (Medical Protective), a large admitted primary medical professional liability insurer in Texas, announced it has no plans to take an overall rate increase in the state in 2005. President and...
Guaranty Insurance Services Acquires Calif. Agency
Feb 16 2005 // Austin, Texas-based Guaranty Insurance Services Inc. announced the acquisition of Walter Mortensen Insurance of Bakersfield, Calif. This move doubles the agency’s size in California. With eight offices in...
PCI Supports Legislation to Reform Workers’ Comp System in Texas
Feb 16 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) reported it testified before the House Business and Insurance Committee in support of legislation to overhaul the Texas workers’ compensation...
Solomons’ Bill Calls for Overhaul of Texas’ Comp System
Feb 11 2005 // State Rep. Burt Solomons (Carrollton) recently filed a bill that would make major changes to the workers’ compensation system in Texas. According to an announcement released by the House of Representatives, House...
Texas AG Supports Federal Legislation to Ban Bankruptcy Forum Shopping
Feb 10 2005 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced his support of legislation filed by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, that would stop corporations like Enron from exploiting a loophole by filing bankruptcy in federal courts far...
Austin-Based Central Texas Agency Alliance Adds Two Master Territories
Feb 8 2005 // Austin, Texas-based Central Texas Agency Alliance has purchased two additional exclusive Master Agency territories from the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance of Hampton, N.H. CTAA is a division of AIC- Sun Belt Group...
FEMA Funds Jefferson County (Texas) Flood Project
Feb 8 2005 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced it has obligated $1.35 million to the state of Texas to fund flood protection measures in Jefferson County. The project...
Johnson Joins Special Texas Insurance Fraud Post
Feb 8 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance has hired Kyson Johnson as a special insurance fraud prosecutor in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. The new position, part of the Special Crimes Unit, represents the...
Central Texas 'I' Day:
Feb 7 2005 // The Central Texas Chapter of CPCU and the Austin Association of Insurance Professionals will hold their 34th Annual Insurance Day on March 9, 2005, at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin. CE topics will include time management...
People & Places
Feb 7 2005 // Darryl McDonald Cunningham Lindsey U.S. Inc.added Darryl McDonald as vice president and regional manager. McDonald will be based in Dallas with full operational responsibility for a multi-state, South Central region. He...
Texas Nonsubscribers
Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Frontier General Insurance Agency Inc. has available a new Texas Nonsubscribers product. Texas Nonsub-scribers is an alternative product for Texas employers who opt out of the Texas workers’...
Texas Homeowners
Feb 7 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a new homeowners product for Texas. Coverage details include: HO-A+ (with the HO-470T Extended Coverage); no photos or signatures required; loss free...
Texas Appeals Court Reverses Farmers Settlement
Feb 7 2005 // Justice David Puryear with the Third District Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 21 struck down a $117.5 million settlement Farmers Insurance Group reached with the state in 2002 over homeowners insurance...
The Facts About Credit Information and Insurance
Feb 7 2005 // The use of credit history, one of many underwriting tools, is not a new concept and one that has received strict scrutiny from insurance regulators and consumer advocates around the country. Some insurers have used...
Daughter of LDI Employee Found in Texas
Feb 4 2005 // The daughter of Louisiana Department of Insurance employee Kathlee Hennigan has been found in Dallas, Texas. The child, Briana, who is 13 years old, was thought to have been lured away from her home in Zachary, La.,...
