Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
SLSOT Sees Slowing of Surplus Lines Rate Increases
Mar 8 2004 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas was established in 1988 as a result of legislation drafted by a committee that included Texas Surplus Lines Association members, Texas Department of Insurance staff and other...
It Can’t Be Done: Article 21.55 and the Duty to Defend
Mar 8 2004 // Almost two years ago, I wrote a column for “Legal Beat” entitled It Couldn’t Be Done: The Policyholder’s Idea to Reinvigorate Third Party Bad Faith. The article outlined the attempts by a very...
Martin Joins WSS’ Texas Office
Mar 8 2004 // Kyle Stevens, vice president, branch manager of the Dallas office of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, announced that Sharla J. Martin joined the firm effective March 1, 2004. Martin came aboard as a property and...
People and Places
Mar 8 2004 // Corey Magliolo MaximFinancial, headquartered in Dickinson, Texas, appointed Corey Magliolo to the position of executive director of financial services. A Dickinson native, Magliolo has served the organization as a...
THERAPIST PLEADS GUILTY:
Mar 8 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Dr. Catherine Delaney, a Ph.D. therapist from Houston, entered a corporate plea agreement (Delaney and Associates) with the Travis County District Attorney’s office...
Texas Auto Assigned Risk Plan Names New Officers
Mar 5 2004 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) announced the election of officers for 2004-2005. The Governing Committee elected Jon Smanz, director, shared markets governance for Allstate insurance Company in...
2004 ACSR of the Year Nominations Sought
Mar 4 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that it will accept nominations for the 2004 ACSR of the Year award until March 15. The award will be presented at IIAT’s convention June 10-12 in Dallas. This...
Vista Insurance Partners Expands Select Agent Program
Mar 3 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, a wholesale insurance broker headquartered in San Antonio, reported the expansion of its successful Select Agent Program to incorporate an additional 100 independent agents. Russell Shults was...
Acordia RE Opens Dallas Office, McGarry Named Senior VP
Feb 27 2004 // Acordia RE announced today that Robert F. McGarry has joined the organization as Senior Vice President. Mr. McGarry is responsible for reinsurance production and management of the Dallas, Texas office of Acordia RE. Most...
What is the Right Prescription for Florida’s Nursing Home Problems’
Feb 23 2004 // Although many complex issues need to be resolved to solve Florida’s nursing home crisis, tighter litigation reforms are reportedly key to solving these problems, according to one insurance industry trade...
TCIF HEARS FRAUD EXPERTS:
Feb 23 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, recently addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) on the topic of workers’ compensation fraud. He was one of...
COMP SEMINARS COMING UP:
Feb 23 2004 // “Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Issues,” will be the subject of two upcoming Public Policy Seminars sponsored by Southwestern Insurance Information Service. Each seminar will offer two hours of...
Relationships Are Everything When Working With MGAs
Feb 23 2004 // Managing general agents need retail insurance agents; retail agents need MGAs. That much is true. So, given this reciprocal professional dependence, why are working relationships between these two groups sometimes burdened...
Louisiana Top 20 Insurers-Ocean Marine
Feb 23 2004 // Louisiana Top 20 Insurers—Ocean Marine The following table shows data from the top 20 ocean marine insurers in Louisiana—based on premium written—as of the end of 2002. There were 83 ocean marine insurers registered...
Chubb Representative to Speak at Central Texas CPCU Meeting
Feb 17 2004 // The Central Texas Chapter Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) group will hold its February luncheon on Feb. 24. Tyrone Bennet of Chubb will be the guest speaker. Bennet will present “Chubb’s...
Flood Outlines Fraud-Fighting Needs at TCIF
Feb 12 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) recently. Flood discussed workers’ compensation fraud, one of...
Texas Arson Hotline Caller Given First Reward
Feb 12 2004 // A $500 reward has been handed over to a man who called the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office Arson Hotline to report a case of arson. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, the phone call led to the arrest and...
Hotchkiss Okayed to Form Comp Group for Green Industries
Feb 11 2004 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA), which provides insurance services to the building industry and related trades in the State of Texas, announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved its application to...
Texas Man Convicted on Federal Workers’ Comp Charges
Feb 11 2004 // A Dallas jury convicted aviator Michael Lee Harms, of Grapevine, Texas, on federal charges that he defrauded the Office of Workers’ Compensation program. The Associated Press reported that the charges stem from a...
