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New Property Insurer, Journey, to Include Texas in Initial Roll Out
Sep 28 2018 // Texas is one of three states in which a new property/casualty insurance company plans its initial roll out. In addition to Texas, Florida-based Journey Insurance Co., formed by United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC...
Texas’ Harris County Sets Aside $14.5M for New Flood Plain Maps
Sep 28 2018 // Harris County has earmarked $14.5 million for updated flood plain maps more than a year after deluges from Hurricane Harvey swamped parts of Houston. The Houston Chronicle reports commissioners accepted $6.5 million in...
Correction: Texas to Hold Hearing on TWIA Request to Raise Liability Limits
Sep 27 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing on Oct. 8 on a request by the state’s property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast to increase its maximum liability limits. The...
Report: Dozens of Texas Gas Leak Explosions Since 2006
Sep 25 2018 // More than two dozen homes in north and central Texas have blown up since 2006 along a network of pipelines operated by one of the largest natural gas companies in the U.S, leading to nine deaths and badly injuring at least...
Texas Company Recalls 690 Pounds of Beef Jerky
Sep 25 2018 // A South Texas company has recalled nearly 700 pounds (317.52 kilograms) of beef jerky after regulators say a consumer reporting finding hard metal in a product. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced...
Risk Strategies Expands Private Client Capabilities with Texas Acquisitions
Sep 25 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Texas-based firms, Select Insurance Markets LLP (SIM) and Preferred Personal Insurance Agency LLP (PPIA). Terms of the...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates for Coming Year
Sep 24 2018 // The workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for dates of injury from Oct. 1, 2018, through Sept. 30, 2019, has been set at $937.70, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation...
1 Dead as Record Rain Swamps Texas and Oklahoma
Sep 24 2018 // A storm system dumped record amounts of rain in parts of Oklahoma and caused flooding in Texas, including in the Dallas area, where floodwaters swept a man from a bridge to his death near the University of Texas’...
Texas Workers’ Comp Study Finds Improvement in Worker Access to Medical Care
Sep 21 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation reported in a newly released study that access to medical care for injured workers has improved slightly and that a high rate of doctors who treat...
Austin Drops Workers’ Comp Lawsuit Against Firefighter with Cancer
Sep 21 2018 // The city of Austin, Texas, has dropped a lawsuit challenging the determination by state workers’ compensation officials and an appeals panel that a firefighter diagnosed with cancer is eligible for workers’...
Worldwide Facilities to Acquire Texas Insurance Wholesaler McClelland and Hine
Sep 18 2018 // Los Angeles-based Worldwide Facilities LLC announced plans to acquire managing general agent and excess and surplus lines broker, McClelland and Hine Inc. and McClelland & Hine Trucking Underwriters LLC (collectively,...
Hurricane Florence Likely to Expose Gaps in Flood Insurance
Sep 17 2018 // The number of Americans with flood insurance is on the rise, yet Hurricane Florence is likely to make it painfully clear that too many homeowners in the Carolinas and other vulnerable regions remain unprotected. . An...
Insurance Commissioner OKs Fees, Rate Hikes for Texas Fair Plan
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has approved a request by the Texas Fair Plan Association to raise rates and revise/implement various fees. The commissioner denied, however, the plan’s request to end...
Auto Dealers Safety Group Gets $1M Dividend from Texas Mutual
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, a policyholder-owned company, recently awarded a dividend of $1,060,313 to the Lone Star Auto Dealers Association (LSADA) safety group, which includes franchised auto, truck, RV, boat and...
Charter Bus Runs Off West Texas Road, Injuring 20
Sep 17 2018 // Twenty people have been taken to El Paso hospitals for treatment after a charter bus ran off a road southeast of the city. Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Elizabeth Carter says the accident happened along an...
Texas Workers’ Comp Claims Go Digital
Sep 17 2018 // Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Cassie Brown has turned in the keys to a secure warehouse that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has used since 1992 to store injured employee claims. The...
Tort Reform Group: Texas Cat-Related Lawsuits Have Declined
Sep 17 2018 // In the year after the enactment of a Texas law aimed at reducing the volume of lawsuits filed by property owners against insurance companies following natural catastrophes, the number of those types of disputes has...
People
Sep 17 2018 // Sam Siddons and Craig Morelos have joined the property/casualty practice at EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants as principals. Siddons will be responsible for new business development, the design, placement and...
Allstate: Brownsville, Texas, Has the Nation’s Safest Drivers
Sep 17 2018 // Illinois-based insurer, Allstate, has named Brownsville, Texas, the city with America’s safest drivers. In fact, including Brownsville, five of the top 10 cities with the nation’s safest drivers are in...
Email Scams Hit Texas Agents Group, Insurance Department
Sep 14 2018 // Both the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) and the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) report being the subject of phishing scams. TDI said it has received reports of fake emails that appear to be from the...
