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Harvey-Devastated Texas Coastal Towns Still Working on Recovery
Jan 17 2018 // Some Texas coastal towns where Hurricane Harvey made landfall are working to restore tourism and other economic attractions nearly five months after the storm. Hundreds of businesses in Rockport and Fulton are now open...
Settlements Reached in West, Texas, Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Jan 17 2018 // The city of West, Texas, and several other plaintiffs have reached settlements and partial settlements of claims stemming from a deadly explosion in the central Texas town. An April 13, 2013, blaze heated up 30 tons of...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Seeks Comments on Compounded Drug Rule
Jan 16 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) is accepting comments through Feb. 20 on a compounded drug rule that was first proposed in June 2017. On June 16, 2017, DWC...
Philadelphia Insurance Cos. Employees Plant Trees in Wildfire-Devastated Texas Park
Jan 12 2018 // Fifty Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) employees are supporting the company’s efforts to plant 80,000 trees for the third consecutive year through a two-day project near Austin, Texas. Employees have finished...
Idea of Texas Coastal Barrier Resurrected After Harvey
Jan 11 2018 // A new study suggests if the Houston area continues to boom for 60 years and sea levels rise, a direct hit to Galveston from a massive hurricane could destroy $31.8 billion worth of homes, the Houston Chronicle...
Independent Insurance Agents of Plainview, Texas, Merges with Higginbotham
Jan 9 2018 // Fort Worth, Texas-based retail insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Independent Insurance Agents of Plainview (IIAP) have merged operations. With the addition of IIAP in Plainview, Higginbotham now has 27 offices in...
Texas Regulators Reveal 2017’s Top Insurance Fraud Cases
Jan 8 2018 // Texas Department of Insurance fraud investigations in 2017 resulted in 135 suspects referred for prosecution, 113 indictments, and $2.3 million in court-ordered restitution for victims. TDI described some of the most...
Texas-Based M.D. Jensvold Co. Changes Name to LP Risk
Jan 8 2018 // Houston, Texas-based wholesale insurance brokerage, M. D. Jensvold Co. Inc., has changed its name to LP Risk, the firm’s owner, Landon Parnell, announced. This new name reflects the company’s evolving focus,...
2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry Days Jan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, Calif. California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.net The 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference Jan...
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Jan 8 2018 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president. Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly...
Texas Workers’ Comp Costs Continue to Drop
Jan 8 2018 // More Texas businesses are providing workers’ compensation insurance as the cost of coverage continues to decline, according to the Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation...
New Year’s Fireworks Cause $1.2M in Damage in Texas’ Harris County
Jan 5 2018 // The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office says a dozen fires blamed on fireworks in unincorporated areas of Texas’ most populous county over New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day caused about $1.2 million...
Starr Approved as First Domestic Surplus Lines Insurer in Texas
Jan 4 2018 // Starr Surplus Lines Insurance Co. has become the first domestic surplus lines insurer (DSLI) in Texas, effective Jan. 1, 2018, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported. The company has been approved to...
2017 Texas Surplus Lines Premium Up 6.5% over Previous Year
Jan 3 2018 // Surplus lines premium in Texas increased to $5.46 billion in 2017, up from $5.12 billion in 2016, according to data collected by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX). These numbers represent a 6.5 percent...
Seeman Holtz Acquires Houston’s Dash Insurance Agency
Jan 2 2018 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Dash Insurance Agency, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Dash Insurance Agency provides full auto and liability insurance products and...
SUV Strikes Hog in Texas, Killing 3 and Injuring 2
Dec 29 2017 // Three people are dead and two others injured after a vehicle collided with a wild hog in Southwest Texas. The accident happened on a rural road near Uvalde, about 110 miles southwest of San Antonio. Texas Department of...
Top Insurance Journal South Central Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // Among the most read news stories in Insurance Journal’s South Central region during 2017 concerned Hurricane Harvey and Texas hailstorm (aka natural catastrophe insurance claims) legislation. The insurance industry...
Several Texas Businesses in Historic Denton Downtown Damaged in Fire
Dec 28 2017 // Several businesses have sustained damage in a four-alarm fire that struck a historic downtown square in North Texas. The fire in downtown Denton appears to have begun early Tuesday in a building that houses a market...
Texas Southern, Huston-Tillotson Students Receive Insurance Council of Texas Scholarships
Dec 22 2017 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has awarded academic scholarships to two students at Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston and three students at Huston-Tillotson University (H-T) students in Austin. ICT honored...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Releases Health Care Provider Oversight Results
Dec 21 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has released the 2017 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment results. Health care providers were assessed on their...
