Latest Texas Headlines
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Negligent Misrepresentation-Part I
Apr 10 2000 // A primer on how negligence differs from fraud, what constitutes negligence and how Texas law applies For a century and half, or so, tort law was divided into business torts and personal injury. Business torts includes such...
Grand Jury Reports on Charges Against Farmers Insurance
Feb 3 2000 // SAN MARCOS, Texas, Feb. 3- A Hays County Grand Jury has found reason to continue a criminal investigation of Endangerment to a Child charges involving Farmers Insurance Company, as reported today by PR Newswire. After a...
TDI Issues Licensing Guidelines To Comply with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bill
Feb 2 2000 // Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor issued interim guidelines on January 18 that address licensing of financial institutions as insurance agents. The guidelines pave the way for implementation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
Non-Profit Nursing Homes Receive TDI Assistance
Feb 2 2000 // Non-profit nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Texas will soon be admitted into the state’s Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association for the first time since 1982, with for-profit facilities...
Elgin Residents Aided by Montemayor’s Intervention
Feb 2 2000 // When Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor first read of the plight a group of Elgin landowners had stumbled into, he immediately compared it to a tornado “coming out of nowhere” and devastating the...