Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Jury Awards $24.7 Million in Drunk Driving Case
Aug 13 2004 // A Harris County, Texas jury awarded $24.7 million to the family of a woman who died in a crash with a drunken driver four years ago, the Associated Press reported. The civil jury found Jeffrey Lamont Tate responsible for...
Amarillo Storm Losses Total $175 Million
Aug 12 2004 // The storm that struck the western portion of Amarillo on June 21 caused $175 million in insured losses making it the sixth costliest wind and hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Insurance Council of...
TWCC, IWCF to Hold 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference
Aug 11 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. are the sponsors of the 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference. The...
Caliber Collision Centers Appoints Parker
Aug 10 2004 // Caliber Collision Centers, an operator of collision repair facilities in California and Texas, has named Tresa Parker as its Director of Client Services for Texas Operations, a new position designed to help strengthen new...
Vista Insurance Partners Appoints Bishop as Senior Broker/Underwriter
Aug 10 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, a San Antonio, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, announced the appointment of Margie Bishop as senior broker/underwriter. Bishop will work with current and new Vista agents to develop new...
PERRY TAKES AIM AT FRAUD:
Aug 9 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently issued a directive to all state agencies to establish wide-ranging efforts to detect and eliminate fraud in government programs. “Fraud increases the price employers pay for...
Texas Lt. Gov. Calls for Study on Workers’ Comp Pricing
Aug 6 2004 // On the heels of new numbers from the Texas Department of Insurance showing that workers’ compensation insurance carriers are charging higher premiums even though claim costs are decreasing, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...
Miss. Nominee Chosen as 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year
Aug 5 2004 // Ruth Phillips, CISR, CPIW, of the Morrell Agency Inc., in Magnolia, Mississippi, was awarded the 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award. The Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives (CISR) and the...
Texas Assoc. of Business Backs Revamp of Workers’ Comp System
Aug 4 2004 // The Texas Association of Business (TAB) is calling for major organizational reform of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, saying the agency’s current leadership structure undermines its ability to...
ICT to Hold Fall 2004 Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Aug 2 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced the schedule for its Fall 2004 workers’ compensation seminar, Managing Disabilities and Other Benefit Issues in the Texas Workers’ Compensation System. The seminar will...
Texas Mutual Creates Account Executive Council
Jul 29 2004 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported it has created an account executive council (AEC) designed to help the company make its online services better for agents’ account executives, or customer service...
Texas Legislator Raises Questions About CHIP Insurer
Jul 28 2004 // A Texas lawmaker says an insurance company recently awarded a state contract to manage health care services for about 95,000 low-income children may not be financially strong enough for the task, the Associated Press and...
Texas Mutual Pays $50 Million in Dividends
Jul 26 2004 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that it has begun distributing approximately $50 million in dividends to some 27,000 qualifying policyholders. The event marks the sixth consecutive year for Texas...
Houston Man Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 21 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...
New Texas Broker/MGA Targets Contracting, Equipment
Jul 20 2004 // A.D. Carlton Insurance is a new specialty wholesale broker and MGA located in Irving, Texas, formed to assist agents in placing crane accounts, equipment rental/distribution companies, steel erection, millwright and a...
INSURERS’ RIGHT TO CHOOSE:
Jul 19 2004 // A July 2, 2004 Texas Supreme Court decision will preserve insurers’ ability to properly manage the settlement and defense of insurance claims under liability insurance policies, according to the American Insurance...
People and Places
Jul 19 2004 // Greg Meserole Fort Worth-based Higginbotham & Associates named Greg Meserole and Matt Burns as managing directors of the company’s newly opened office in Austin. Meserole and Burns were most recently senior vice...
Construction Defects Burning a Hole through the Residential Contractors Market
Jul 19 2004 // Whether real or imagined, the threat of construction defects litigation has burned through the residential contractors liability insurance market like a California wildfire. Over the past couple of years, contractors and...
Csiszar Calls for Focus on Regulation at 12th Annual Texas P/C Symposium
Jul 16 2004 // Speaking at the12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium presented by the Insurance Council of Texas and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT), Ernst Csiszar, president of the National...
Texas Gov. Requests Disaster Assistance for Briscoe County Following June Storms
Jul 16 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency provide disaster relief and assistance for Briscoe County that has suffered damage from excessive rain, hail,...
