Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Workers in Mass., Pa. Fare Better After Injuries Than In Other States
Mar 22 2004 // Injured workers located in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania report more satisfactory outcomes than their counter parts in Texas, according to a study by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study,...
Legacy Texas Insurance Services Welcomes Rolland
Mar 22 2004 // Plano-based Legacy Texas Insurance Services announced the addition of Mark J. Rolland to its team, as account executive in the Austin area. A 31-year veteran of the insurance industry, Rolland most recently served as...
Griffitts and Wilson Become Partners at Thompson Coe
Mar 22 2004 // Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP announced two new partners, Larry Wilson and Ryan Griffitts. Wilson is a partner in the firm’s Houston office. His practice focuses primarily on the defense of business...
TEXAN PLEADS GUILTY:
Mar 22 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Roger Gilbreth pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The 390th District Court sentenced Gilbreth to two years deferred probation and 120 hours of...
An Improving Texas Homeowners Market
Mar 22 2004 // The Texas homeowners insurance market is apparently on the rebound, according to data reports filed by carriers with the Texas Department of Insurance. TDI said the top Texas homeowners insurers reported a loss ratio of 58...
People and Places
Mar 22 2004 // Alan Ring Insurance Journal announced the promotion of Alan M. Ring to the position of vice president of sales and marketing. Ring joined Wells Publishing, publisher of Insurance Journal Magazine and Insurance Journal...
All Wrapped Up in Workers’ Comp
Mar 22 2004 // No surprise, but with the first quarter of 2004 drawing to a close, workers’ compensation remains, as it has been for many years, one of the most troubled lines of insurance in the United States. On a calendar year...
IIAT Expands MarketsCentral Online Market Search Tool
Mar 18 2004 // To help its members search for markets in the state, the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas has expanded and updated its online market search tool, MarketsCentral. In its MarketsCentral announcement, the IIAT noted that...
