Latest Texas Headlines
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People and Places
Sep 6 2004 // Margie Bishop Vista Insurance Partners, based in San Antonio, appointed Margie Bishop as senior broker/underwriter. Bishop will work with current and new Vista agents to develop new business and retain existing accounts...
Brownsville, Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Sep 2 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Jaime Cano of Brownsville, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County judge sentenced Cano to six months of deferred...
Texas Insurance Industry Could Face Cash Crunch if Major Hurricane Hit
Sep 1 2004 // The Texas insurance industry could find itself in a cash crunch if a storm like Hurricane Charley hit the coast, and insurers could be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners across the state, industry officials...
TWCC: New Weekly Benefit Rates for Workers’ Comp
Aug 31 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced it has provided the Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner with new average weekly wage rates effective Sept. 1, 2004. Under Section 408.047 of the Texas Labor...
Insurers to Coastal Residents in Texas: Be Prepared
Aug 30 2004 // Residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can learn a lot from the experiences of those people in Florida who were victims of Hurricane Charley, according to Jerry Johns, president of Southwestern Insurance Information...
CompGroup AGC Earns Texas Mutual Dividends
Aug 25 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it has awarded the CompGroup AGC workers’ compensation purchasing group with $1,430,035 of group dividends. Texas Mutual President Russ Oliver attended the dividend...
PCI Shares Montemayor’s Optimism About Texas Homeowners Market
Aug 25 2004 // National insurance trade association Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) reported that Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor told the House Insurance Committee that the reforms implemented...
THA: Texas Hospitals See Benefits of Liability Reform
Aug 24 2004 // The Texas Hospital Association (THA) reported that nearly a year after the passage of sweeping medical liability reform, Texas hospitals are seeing a significant drop in their liability costs and using the savings to...
ICT Symposium Focused on Regulation, State of the Market and More
Aug 23 2004 // Attendees at the 12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium presented in July by the Insurance Council of Texas and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) were treated to a series of...
HOUSTON MAN INDICTED:
Aug 23 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Travis County’s 147th District Court grand jury indicted Henry Prince of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The insurer said Prince allegedly...
The Denial is in the Details: Description of the Premises Defines Coverage
Aug 23 2004 // Commercial property issues lead to surprisingly few reported opinions. While they may not result in opinions, many disputes arise over policy interpretation, stemming from the description of the insured premises. Under the...
Homeowners in Hurricane Paths Hit with High Insurance Costs
Aug 23 2004 // Retired police officers Ed and Nancy McCue are thinking about leaving their dream home near the shores of Biscayne Bay because it’s in a prime area for hurricanes. It’s not the storm threat itself that’s...
People and Places
Aug 23 2004 // Chantelle Burton Chantelle Burton joined Heath Insurance Brokers in the company’s Houston office as a professional and financial services broker. Prior to joining Heath, Burton was an associate director at Myron...
Jackson Joins Western Security Surplus’ Texas Office
Aug 19 2004 // Kyle Stevens, vice president, branch manager of the Dallas branch office of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, announced the recent new hiring of Khlanie Jackson. Jackson joins the WSS Underwriting Department as...
HIA’s TGI Comp Purchasing Group Exceeds Expectations
Aug 18 2004 // Response to Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency’s (HIA) newly created Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group has exceeded all expectations, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the group’s...
SIIS to Hold Fall Conference in Fort Worth
Aug 18 2004 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service announced that “Legislation, Regulation and Education” is the theme of its 51st Annual Fall Conference, to be held Sept. 19-20, 2004, at the Doral Tesoro Hotel in Fort...
Central Texas CPCU Chapter Joins ‘Circle Of Excellence’
Aug 17 2004 // The Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) announced it has earned the Society’s Gold “Circle of Excellence” for outstanding achievement during the 2003-2004...
Allstate to Pay $60M in Refunds to Texas Homeowners
Aug 17 2004 // Allstate Texas Lloyds, an affiliate of the Allstate Corporation will issue refunds of 8.75 percent of the premium paid by its Texas home insurance customers for policies with effective dates from Sept. 7, 2003, through...
Court Says Texas Providers, Carriers Must Pay IRO Fees in Medical Necessity Disputes
Aug 17 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported that the Third Court of Appeals in Austin has upheld the constitutionality of TWCC’s rules regarding fees to be paid to Independent Review Organizations...
Texas Mutual Web Site is a Three-Peat Winner
Aug 17 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that for the third consecutive year its Web site, www.texasmutual.com, took first place in an international communications competition hosted by the American Association of State...
