Latest Texas Headlines
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Rising Rivers, Bayous Force Texas Evacuations
Mar 17 2016 // Residents were evacuating their homes in Southeast Texas on March 15 as rivers swollen by days of heavy rain displaced thousands of people, forced the temporary closure of a major interstate and overwhelmed small towns...
NFI Roadrail and NFI Industries Settle Texas Wage Discrimination Suit
Mar 16 2016 // Federal officials say two New Jersey-based companies has settled a suit over unequal pay at a workplace in Texas. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that NFI RoadRail LLC and NFI Industries...
Seat-Back Failure Leads to $124.5M Texas Verdict Against Audi
Mar 16 2016 // A Texas jury ordered Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit to pay $124.5 million to an 11-year-old boy who was left brain damaged in a 2012 rear-end collision. The parents of Jesse Rivera Jr. claimed the seat back of the 2005...
Texas Seeks Comments on Windstorm Inspection Rule
Mar 10 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance is seeking comments on an informal working draft of amendments that would update the rule relating to items not requiring inspection for the purposes of windstorm and hail insurance...
Storm System Dumps Heavy Rain on South Central States, More Expected
Mar 10 2016 // A large storm system has drenched areas in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas that were already inundated with heavy rainfall this week. Two people have drowned in Oklahoma and Texas. Nearly a foot of rain fell over parts of...
Texas Hail and Wind Claims: We’re No. 1!
Mar 9 2016 // Texans like to brag that “everything’s bigger in Texas,” but sometimes that’s not something to be proud of. According to data recently released by State Farm, Texas led the nation in hail and wind...
Texas Adopts Revised Workers’ Comp Classification Relativities
Mar 9 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has issued an order adopting revised workers’ compensation classification relativities. The order reduces the overall level of the classification relativities by 10...
North Texas Slammed by Storms: Homes Damaged, School Bus Stranded
Mar 9 2016 // A severe thunderstorm, possibly a tornado, damaged at least seven homes scattered over a rural area of North Texas. The storm roared through the area between Weatherford and Mineral Wells about 6:15 p.m. Monday at a time...
UT Dallas Students Receive Scholarships from Insurer Trade Group
Mar 7 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation has honored five insurance and risk management students at the University of Texas at Dallas with scholarships and registration into the Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS)...
Police: 1 Injured When Generator Explodes at Texas Refinery
Mar 7 2016 // One person was injured when a generator inside a refinery near Houston exploded, authorities said on March 5. The incident occurred at the Pasadena Refining System Inc. The injured person was taken to a nearby hospital but...
Kansas Agency Joins Combined Agents of America
Mar 7 2016 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that Kansas-based United Agency joined CAA as its 53rd member. Offering both insurance and real estate solutions to Oklahoma and Kansas...
Texas Adopts Rules for Residential Property Dec Pages, TWIA Premium Surcharge
Mar 7 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported it has adopted rules pertaining to property insurance changes resulting from legislation passed in 2013 and 2015. Residential Property Declaration Page The new rules include...
Homeowners Insurance Claims Increase in Texas in 2015
Mar 7 2016 // Texas weather catastrophes caused a huge jump in homeowners insurance claims last year, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. Though claims increased by 120,000 over 2014, the number of policyholder complaints increased...
People – South Central
Mar 7 2016 // Karen Quirk has been named chairman and chief operating officer of San Antonio-based Quirk Group Inc., and Luis Vazquez has been promoted to president and CEO of the managing general agency and surplus lines broker, Quirk...
Catastrophe Response Team Works to Protect Storm Victims
Mar 4 2016 // After tornadoes ravaged the Dallas area in late December, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Fraud Unit worked together to establish a new disaster outreach program, called...
Reed Joins Midlands Management at Sr. Broker/Underwriter in Texas
Mar 4 2016 // Wholesale insurance broker Midlands Management Corp. has added Jennie Reed to the Texas property/casualty excess and surplus team as a senior broker/underwriter. With more than a decade in the industry, Reed began her...
Suit Alleges Texas Lawyers Bankrolled BP Oil-Spill Scam
Mar 4 2016 // Two high-profile Texas attorneys were sued by a fishing boat captain who said they were involved in a scam to cheat BP Plc out of millions of dollars with false compensation claims for the Gulf of Mexico oil...
Texas Mutual, VFIS Award Over $150K to Emergency Service Organizations
Mar 3 2016 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a policyholder-owned company, and VFIS of Texas awarded more than $150,000 to 71 non-profit emergency service organizations across Texas through the...
McCasland Joins Texas-Based LevelFirst as Vice President
Mar 2 2016 // LevelFirst, the service-based wholesale broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., has appointed Heath McCasland as vice president. McCasland will assume the responsibility of brokering new business...
2015 a Record-Setting Year for Tornadoes in Texas
Mar 1 2016 // Texas recorded 244 tornadoes last year making it the highest number of twisters to ever touch down in the Lone Star State since the record keeping began in 1950. The tornadoes claimed 17 lives. The violent weather was...
