Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Quiroga Named National ACSR of the Year by IIAA
Jan 2 2001 // Armida Quiroga, ACSR, of Aon Risk Services of Texas Inc. in Houston, was recently named National ACSR of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents of America. Quiroga holds the ACSR designation in commercial lines. A...
Hawaii, Texas Insurance Departments Take Action
Dec 8 2000 // The Hawaii Insurance Division has issued a cease and desist order against Darren Larson, the organizer of the insolvent and unauthorized health insurer Hawaii HealthCare Alliance, and owner of Design Benefits Insurance...
Artisan Contractor
Nov 20 2000 // Class Strong Despite construction Defect Litigation, Hardening Market and Slowing economy The building boom across much of the country resulting from nearly 10 years of economic expansion has also resulted in a business...
Liability Coverage for Breaches of Contract
Nov 20 2000 // Knowledgeable people think that liability insurance is for accidents. Standardized liability insurance policies-homeowners, auto and commercial general liability-are worded so that the idea of an accident is at the heart...
Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market’
Nov 20 2000 // Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market? Enforcing Uninsured Driver Laws Should Be A Top Agenda Item What will the Texas auto market look like in 2001? The question is being asked at every professional meeting, on every golf...
Liability Coverage for Breaches of Contract
Nov 20 2000 // Knowledgeable people think that liability insurance is for accidents. Standardized liability insurance policies-homeowners, auto and commercial general liability-are worded so that the idea of an accident is at the heart...
MOLD in Buildings
Nov 20 2000 // Creates New Frontier in Construction Defect Litigation, Definition of Pollution At the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic tort litigation is an...
Texas Insurance Agency Acquired by Compass
Nov 6 2000 // Compass Bancshares and one of Texas’ largest independent insurance agencies have signed a definitive agreement for Compass to acquire the agency. Texas Insurance Agency, with offices in San Antonio, Austin, Uvalde...
Federal Appellate Court Rules Again on Slab Damage Claim
Nov 6 2000 // In 1998, the Texas Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the standard Texas homeowners’ policy covered damage to a home’s foundation resulting from a plumbing leak. The court decided that the standard...
Legal Malpractice Insurance
Nov 6 2000 // There are a huge number of lawyers in Texas. Many of them are not very good. For every lawyer there is probably at least one paralegal. Many of them are as proficient as the lawyers they assist, though usually less...
UNIFORM REGULATIONS SOUGHT
Nov 6 2000 // The Texas Senate Economic Development Committee has approved a staff recommendation for the uniform adoption of state regulations set forth in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act governing the modernization of financial services...
Restraining the Departed’
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance Company Insurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
The Pioneering Women of TEXAS: How a generation of insurance women was born
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
MARINE AGENT BEACHED
Oct 9 2000 // A Kentucky insurance agent and agency have agreed to a $50,000 penalty for selling Texans millions of dollars worth of boat insurance without the special license required for placing business with Lloyd’s of London...
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Oct 9 2000 // Q: Our insured has an HO-160 Scheduled Personal Property endorsement on his homeowners policy covering camera equipment and jewelry. While on vacation, the camera, some jewelry and other unscheduled personal property were...
Questions & Answers
Oct 9 2000 // Q. Our insured has an HO-160 Scheduled Personal Property endorsement on his homeowners policy covering camera equipment and jewelry. While on vacation, the camera, some jewelry and other unscheduled personal property were...
BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER
Sep 25 2000 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor ordered a London-based “foundation” to pay a $500,000 fine and to stop offering boat insurance in Texas without a license or other proper authority from the Texas...
TDI SHUTS DOWN MCIC
Sep 25 2000 // Medical Community Insurance Co. (MCIC) of Houston, a physician-owned company that specialized in major medical insurance for small employers in Texas, has been placed in temporary receivership. Judge John Dietz of the...
An Agent’s Nightmare: Who Knew Forwarding Lawsuit Papers Could Get So Sticky
Sep 25 2000 // Insurance agencies mediate between insurance companies and policyholders all the time. One of the most important focal points for this kind of activity has to do with forwarding suit papers. An insured gets sued. He hands...
Former Texas Commish Hits the Jackpot
Sep 25 2000 // Former Texas Insurance Commissioner John Osorio, who, in the 1970s, served a 14-month prison sentence stemming from a pension fund scam, stepped forward as the co-winner of a $60 million lottery jackpot Sept. 9. Osorio,...
