Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas’ BevCap Management Adds Marchino as EVP
Oct 7 2019 // Jeff Marchino has joined McKinney, Texas-based insurance services firm BevCap Management as executive vice president. Marchino brings more than 25 years of professional experience in employee benefits. His extensive...
Business Moves
Oct 7 2019 // East Plymouth Rock Assurance, Rider Insurance Company Plymouth Rock Assurance has agreed to expand its investment in the motorcycle insurance segment with the acquisition of Rider Insurance Company, subject to regulatory...
Texas Surplus Lines Premium Up 16% Over 2018
Oct 3 2019 // Reported Texas surplus lines premium through the first three quarters of 2019 reached $5.35 billion, a 16.15% increase over the same period in 2018, according to the Surplus Line Stamping Office of Texas...
Texas Mutual Commits $5M to Help Tropical Storm Imelda-Impacted Policyholders
Oct 2 2019 // Austin-based workers’ compensation carrier, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., is offering a grant of $5 million for policyholders affected by Tropical Storm Imelda. The grant is intended to support the recovery of business...
Texas Insurer Trade Group, Industry Partners Donating Alarms to Local Fire Departments
Oct 1 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), along with insurance industry partners First Alert, Travelers Insurance, State Farm Insurance, Hochheim Prairie and the Association of Fire & Casualty Companies in Texas, will...
Imelda-Impacted Texans Still Don’t Know if They Qualify for FEMA Aid
Oct 1 2019 // Two state officials are optimistic that southeast Texans whose homes were flooded by Tropical Storm Imelda will qualify for federal aid. And since it could be weeks before the destruction is fully inventoried, many leaders...
Fire Destroys Planes at Small Airport in North Texas
Sep 27 2019 // Emergency officials say several airplanes have been destroyed in a hangar fire at a small airport in North Texas. Fire officials say no one was hurt in a blaze at Caddo Mills Municipal Airport, about 35 miles (56.32...
The Nitsche Group’s Castro Appointed to Board of Austin Contractors, Engineers Assoc.
Sep 27 2019 // Frank Castro, a producer at Giddings, Texas-based independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, has been elected to the Austin Contractors & Engineers Association’s (ACEA) board of directors as...
Imelda Blamed for Mass Release of Air Pollutants in Industrialized SE Texas
Sep 26 2019 // Flooding caused by Tropical Storm Imelda triggered the release of about 100,000 pounds (45,000 kilograms) of toxic air pollutants from chemical plants and refineries in Southeast Texas, state environmental records...
RCV, ACV Policy Changes Are Coming, Texas Windstorm Insurer Says
Sep 26 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is alerting agents about an important, upcoming change to the policy conditions that determine how covered losses are settled. Current law says the type of loss settlement —...
Parts of Texas in Exceptional Drought; Governor Extends Disaster Declaration
Sep 25 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has extended a drought disaster declaration to numerous counties in the state. The counties are deemed to be in exceptional drought due to significantly low rainfall and prolonged dry conditions that...
Texas Windstorm Insurer: New Laws Bring Organizational Changes
Sep 25 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) reports that working to implement new laws that change how TWIA does business and serves policyholders. The association recently issued the following update on a few...
Texas Insurance Department Promotes 4, Names New Internal Audit Director
Sep 25 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has promoted four staff members to new positions and hired a new director of internal audit. TDI selected Arby Gonzales as the agency’s new Internal Audit director. Gonzales comes...
Men and Women Respond Differently When Natural Disasters Strike, Researchers Say
Sep 25 2019 // Women are quicker to take cover or prepare to evacuate during an emergency, but often have trouble convincing the men in their life to do so, suggests a new University of Colorado Boulder study of how gender influences...
Texas Insurance Department’s New Division to Focus on Health Market
Sep 24 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has created a new division to focus exclusively on the complex issues facing health insurance and selected Richard Lunsford as the deputy commissioner of the new Life and Health...
Nichols Exiting Role as Workers’ Comp Manager at Insurance Council of Texas
Sep 23 2019 // Steve Nichols, manager of Workers’ Compensation Services at the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), is moving on to pursue other opportunities, the insurance trade organization reports. Nichols has been with ICT for 19...
Widespread Damage, Five Deaths in Texas Linked to Imelda
Sep 23 2019 // The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history came into broader view Saturday, as floodwaters receded to reveal the exhausting cleanup effort that lies ahead for...
How Forested Communities Are Trying to Adapt to Growing Wildfire Threat
Sep 23 2019 // Unless it’s Sunday, Kelly Loew is steering her rusty red Jeep down the same mail route in Shingletown, as she has six days a week for the last seven years. But she delivers less mail these days as California’s...
Essary Out as Executive Director of Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office
Sep 20 2019 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) board of directors announced that SLTX Executive Director Norma Essary will separate from employment, effective Oct. 17, 2019. The board voted Sept. 17 to relieve Essary of...
Texas Seeks Comments on Proposed Rules for Surprise Medical Bill Law
Sep 19 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting comments on proposed rules to implement Senate Bill 1264, which protects consumers who have state-regulated health plans from surprise medical bills in certain situations. The...
