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Imelda Brings Flooding, Disaster Declaration to Southeast Texas
Sep 19 2019 // Flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda on Thursday left hundreds of people trapped in their homes and cars; led to water rescues, a hospital evacuation and power outages; and closed entire school districts, according to...
Texas Auto Insurer of Last Resort Files for Rate Increases
Sep 19 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has extended the period in which recent rate increase request by the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) may be approved. TAIPA, the state’s auto insurer of last...
Texas Mutual Pays $623.3K Dividend to Lone Star Auto Dealers Safety Group
Sep 19 2019 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has awarded a dividend of $623,341 to the Lone Star Auto Dealers Association (LSADA) Safety Group, which includes franchised auto, truck, RV, boat and...
Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud Must Repay $7.2K to Texas Mutual
Sep 18 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ramon S. Flores of Kingwood on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Flores reported a job-related injury while working as a...
Weakened Imelda Aims Foot or More of Rain at Flood-Prone Houston
Sep 18 2019 // Tropical Storm Imelda has lost some of its wind power, but continues to pour rain down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, with 12 to 15 inches already recorded and flood-prone Houston in its path. Imelda is now a tropical depression,...
Update: Tropical Storm Imelda Makes Landfall on Texas Coast
Sep 17 2019 // A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico that quickly upgraded into Tropical Storm Imelda has made landfall on the Texas coast near Freeport. The National Hurricane Center said the storm likely will produce...
Low-Pressure System Off Texas Coast Expected to Bring Heavy Rain, Flooding
Sep 17 2019 // With a low pressure system hovering off the Texas Gulf Coast that the National Hurricane Center could become a tropical depression, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has elevated the state operations center to an increased readiness...
Gall Named CEO of Texas’ Tricolor Insurance
Sep 17 2019 // Archie Gall has been named CEO of Tricolor Insurance, an affiliate company of Dallas-based Tricolor, a used vehicle retailer focused on the Hispanic consumer market. Tricolor Insurance, a provider of insurance for subprime...
TDI Offers Guidance on New Ban on Named Driver Policies
Sep 16 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin providing guidance on House Bill 259, passed during the 2019 legislative session, that prohibits insurers from delivering, issuing for delivery, or renewing named...
New Texas Workers’ Comp Laws Highlighted by Insurance Department
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...
What Rules Need Changing? Texas Insurance Department Wants to Know
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators are now accepting comments from the industry in an effort to identify rules that need to be updated or changed. The Texas Department of Insurance announced earlier this year it would begin...
Business Moves
Sep 16 2019 // National Arch Insurance, Ventus Risk Management Arch Insurance North America has agreed to acquire Ventus Risk Management, a technology and analytics- driven managing general underwriter that specializes in providing...
Following Chemical Plant Fires, Texas’ Harris County to Hire More Environmental Experts
Sep 13 2019 // Harris County plans to hire additional environmental personnel to better respond to dangerous chemical plant and refinery fires like ones that occurred this year near the Houston Ship Channel. The Houston Chronicle reports...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Names Actuarial/Underwriting Committee Members
Sep 12 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has identified appointees to its Actuarial/Underwriting Committee. The committee has historically developed recommendations to the TWIA Board concerning association rate filings,...
Report: Texas Cities Included in Areas with Extreme Risk of Wildfire Damage
Sep 12 2019 // In its 2019 Wildfire Risk report, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, CoreLogic, shows that across the nation nearly 776,000 homes with an associated reconstruction cost value of...
Report: $221B in Western U.S. Homes at Extreme Risk of Wildfire Damage
Sep 12 2019 // Nearly 776,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of more than $221 billion are at extreme risk of wildfire damage, a new report out Thursday shows. The 2019 CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Report examines single-family and...
Texas Again Has the Most People Without Health Insurance
Sep 11 2019 // The rate of Texans without health insurance rose for the second year in a row, making it once again the most uninsured state in the nation, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2018, 17.7% of...
Harlos Joins Texas Security General Agency as VP, Operations
Sep 11 2019 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA), based in San Antonio, Texas, has added Marian Harlos as vice president of Operations. Harlos brings 38 years of insurance industry experience. She began her career in the...
Officials: Half of Texas Local Governments Hit by Ransomware Have Recovered
Sep 10 2019 // Texas authorities say they aren’t aware of any money paid to hackers who used ransomware to target more than 20 communities last month. The Texas Department of Information Resources said in a statement that more than...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Serna Insurance Agency in Texas
Sep 9 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Serna Insurance Agency, based in Humble, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001 by Pete and Martha Serna, Serna Insurance Agency offers private...
