Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas’ Watkins Insurance Group Names New Shareholders: Siddons, Scott
Feb 14 2020 // Austin, Texas-based Watkins Insurance Group has expanded its executive team with the addition of Jim Siddons and Chris Scott as new shareholders. These appointments increase Watkins Insurance Group executive team to...
BOK Financial Insurance Expanding in Oklahoma, Texas
Feb 13 2020 // Employee benefits and risk management firm, BOK Financial Insurance (BOKFI), a division of Tulsa, Okla.-based BOK Financial Corp., is focusing on growth in Oklahoma and Texas as an expansion of its operations that have...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Board to Meet Feb. 18 in Austin
Feb 11 2020 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) board of directors will hold its quarterly meeting on Feb. 18, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. in Austin. The agenda for the meeting is posted on TWIA’s website. All meetings of...
Report: 6 Texas Refineries Releasing Cancer-Causing Pollutant Above Federal Threshold
Feb 10 2020 // An environmental nonprofit has released an analysis of first-of-its-kind air monitoring data that shows benzene levels at 10 U.S. petroleum refineries exceeded limits Eight years ago, two environmental nonprofits sued the...
Business Moves
Feb 10 2020 // East The Hilb Group, Kerr-Boswell, Wickford Insurance Agency The Hilb Group LLC has acquired Virginia-based Kerr-Boswell Inc. For more than 60 years, KB has provided employee benefits, property/casualty, life, health and...
Daughter of Worked Killed in Texas Oil Well Blast Sues Chesapeake Energy, Other Firms
Feb 6 2020 // Chesapeake Energy Corp. and three oilfield service firms were sued by the daughter of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when a Texas oil well exploded in flames in late January. The wrongful death suit seeks at least $1...
Supreme Court to Consider Fast Track for Obamacare Appeals
Feb 6 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court signaled it will use its Feb. 21 private conference to discuss whether to consider the fate of the Affordable Care Act on a fast-track schedule that would mean a decision by the end of June. The...
Cancer-Causing Benzene Emissions at 10 Refineries Exceed EPA Limits: Watchdog
Feb 6 2020 // Ten U.S. oil refineries, including six in Texas, released the cancer-causing chemical benzene in concentrations that exceeded federal limits last year, according to government data published by the green group...
TDI: Former NFL Player Indicted in Texas for Fraudulent Claims
Feb 6 2020 // Former NFL player Willie Montae Reagor was arrested January 30 for submitting fraudulent health reimbursement claims after an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Fraud Unit. The TDI investigation found...
3rd Texas Oil Well Worker Dies of Injuries from Blowout
Feb 5 2020 // A third worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said. Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said in a statement the company is “deeply saddened” by the...
Wesson Named President of Texas’ Swingle Collins & Associates
Feb 5 2020 // Swingle Collins & Associates, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in Texas, has appointed Mac Wesson president of the agency. Wesson comes to Swingle Collins with more 40 years of insurance industry...
California Leads Nation in Surplus Lines Premiums on 5th Year of Record Growth
Feb 4 2020 // Premium data from all surplus lines stamping offices for 2019 shows that California once again led the nation in total surplus line premiums, possibly boosted by construction spending and wildfires. The Surplus Line...
Credit Ratings of National Lloyds, American Summit Insurance Under Review
Feb 4 2020 // AM Best has placed under review with developing implications the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a” of Texas-based National Lloyds...
Nelson Joins RHSB in Texas as Vice President
Feb 4 2020 // Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), an independent insurance brokerage firm based in North Texas, has added Lucas Nelson as vice president in the agency’s Commercial Property/Casualty sales practice. Nelson has...
South & Western to Service AmTrust Farm/Ranch Business in Oklahoma, Texas
Feb 4 2020 // South & Western General Agency Inc., with offices in Addison, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee, has reached an agreement with AmTrust to underwrite and service AmTrust’s Farm and Ranch business in Oklahoma and...
Hilltop Holdings Selling Texas’ National Lloyds Corp. to Align Financial
Feb 3 2020 // Dallas-based Hilltop Holdings Inc. and Align Financial Holdings LLC have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of Hilltop subsidiary, National Lloyds Corp. (National Lloyds), to Align in an all-cash transaction...
2nd Worker Injured in Texas Oil Well Blowout Dies
Feb 3 2020 // A second worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout, the company said. Chesapeake Energy spokesman Gordon Pennoyer said the worker died Thursday evening at a hospital. Another worker was killed in...
Electrical Spark Likely Caused Deadly Houston Blast, ATF Says
Feb 3 2020 // An electrical spark likely ignited a gas leak that led to a massive explosion in Houston last week, killing two workers, injuring 20 others and damaging hundreds of buildings, law enforcement officials said. Highly...
1 Worker Dead, Others Injured in Texas Oil Well Blowout
Jan 31 2020 // One person was killed and three others were injured on Jan. 29 in the blowout of a Central Texas oil well. All four were contractors working at a Chesapeake Energy well site on a county road near Deanville, Texas, 28 miles...
USG Insurance Hires Teague as Producer/Broker in Texas
Jan 31 2020 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has added Faryl Teague as producer/broker, commercial lines, to its Arlington, Texas, team. Teague joins the USG team with 11 years of underwriting and brokerage...
