Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Med-Mal Insurer Plans Rate Hike
Apr 13 2004 // A large medical malpractice insurer plans to bypass Texas regulators in order to raise insurance rates for doctors, the Associated Press reported. GE Medical Protective will increase the cost of premiums 10 percent on June...
Mahler Joins Texas Mutual as Senior VP
Apr 13 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Harry Mahler has joined the company as senior vice president of underwriting and loss prevention. Mahler will oversee the company’s corporate and regional underwriting,...
Reynolds to Address Texas Workers’ Comp Symposium
Apr 13 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) announced that Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Dick Reynolds will speak on the Texas workers’ compensation system at ICT’s second annual...
Tomblin to Head Texas Mutual Organized Fraud Unit
Apr 12 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Terre Tomblin has joined the company as its new supervisor for the Organized Fraud Unit. Tomblin brings over 20 years experience in fraud investigation supervision for the...
New Officers Elected for FAIR Plan and TWIA
Apr 8 2004 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and the Texas FAIR Plan announced the election of new officers for the associations. The Association Governing Committee named Craig Nadziejka as chairman of the Board;...
Doze Construction Ordered to Pay $17K to Texas Mutual
Apr 8 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Doze Construction Co. Inc. of Gun Barrel City, Texas, has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Judge Julie Kocurek of the 390th Travis County...
Hawaii Not to Pursue Study on Auto Repair Shop Ownership Restrictions
Apr 7 2004 // A resolution that calls for a study of the need to prohibit insurance companies from owning auto repair facilities was deferred indefinitely following a hearing on the issue in Honolulu recently. Senate Concurrent...
ICT Awards Scholarships to Baylor, UT Austin and UNT
Apr 7 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas presented $15,000 in scholarships this month to students at Baylor, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas. All of the students had excelled in insurance and risk...
HIA Names Green Industry Workers’ Comp Board
Apr 6 2004 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA), a provider of insurance services to building contractors and specialty industries in Texas, announced that Johnette Taylor, Greg Walsh and Candy Atkins will make-up the...
Farmers Appoints Galitski to Director of Government Affairs Post for Texas
Apr 6 2004 // Veteran Texas business and insurance lobbyist Frank V. Galitski, of Austin, has been appointed director of Government Affairs for Farmers Insurance Co. Farmers said the appointment is effective March 31, 2004. Galitski...
Up for Sale: Success in Today’s Homeowners Market
Apr 5 2004 // States show signs of stability, but problem areas remain Despite continuing availability issues and sky-high loss ratios, the U.S. homeowners market is stabilizing as a whole. Of course, most industry observers who make...
People and Places
Apr 5 2004 // Dan Pettigrew Caliber Collision Centers, which operates collision repair facilities in California and Texas, named Dan Pettigrew as executive vice president of Operations. In this position, Pettigrew assumes responsibility...
Ninety-One Texas Holocaust Survivors to Receive Humanitarian Payments
Apr 2 2004 // The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) will begin mailing out $16 million in humanitarian payments to Holocaust survivors and their heirs. The payments are being made to those who believe...
BLS Reports Texas Truckers Lead Lone Star State’s Accident Statistics
Mar 30 2004 // Texas truck drivers recorded the largest number of occupational incidents during 2002, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. The BLS (www.stats.bls.gov/)...
Texas Chapter of CIC Awards Scholarships
Mar 25 2004 // The Texas Chapter of CIC announced two new scholarship recipients. The scholarships were sponsored by Leicht General Agency. The recipients are: Susan Tyner with the Barnard Insurance Group in Wichita Falls, Texas, and...
Oklahoma Senators Spar Over Workers’ Comp Bill
Mar 25 2004 // Oklahoma Senate Republican leaders made a case in a news conference at the State Capitol that the Senate’s Democrat leadership is refusing to allow a committee chairman access to a landmark workers’...
Texas Farmer Convicted in Crop Insurance Scheme
Mar 23 2004 // United States Attorney Jane J. Boyle announced that in early March 2003 a federal jury in Wichita Falls, Texas, convicted Wendell Lynn Mints, on all counts of all 25 counts of an indictment that charged him with one count...
TDI Seeks Input on Water Damage Rules
Mar 22 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced it is seeking public input on Article 21.55A, as enacted 78th Texas Legislature, Regarding Water Damage Claim Handling Procedures and Time Frames. The purpose of Article 21.55A...
Caliber Collision Appoints Pettigrew as EVP, Operations
Mar 22 2004 // Caliber Collision Centers, which operates collision repair facilities in California and Texas, named Dan Pettigrew as executive vice president of Operations. As EVP of Operations, Pettigrew will assume responsibility for...
Patients’ Right-to-Sue Case Reaches Supreme Court
Mar 22 2004 // The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on March 23 in a pivotal case concerning the right of patients to sue their health plans. The case pits state laws granting such rights against federal law which some...
