Latest Texas Headlines
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Ex-Insurance Agent in East Texas Sentenced to 3 Years for Fraud
Apr 21 2016 // A former insurance agent in East Texas must serve three years in prison for running a $5 million medical investment scam. Robert B. Hahn was sentenced in federal court in Tyler. The 64-year-old Tyler man in November...
San Antonio Storm Costliest Hail Event in Texas History
Apr 20 2016 // More than 110,000 vehicles and thousands of homes in Texas regions of north San Antonio and Bexar County were pelted by large hail in what will become the costliest hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Independent...
Report: Ammonium Nitrate Still Close to Schools, Houses in Texas
Apr 19 2016 // A newspaper analysis has found that while some safety steps have been taken across Texas following the deadly 2013 explosion at a plant in West, tons of the same kind of fertilizer that exploded there can still be found...
Randall, Smith Top Allstate’s List of Stormiest Texas Counties
Apr 18 2016 // Texas storms affected more Allstate insured homes in Randall county than any other part of the state over the past five years, while Smith county saw the highest frequency of lightning. Allstate tallied the top 25 Texas...
Texas Inundated as Storms Dump More than a Foot of Rain
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Crashes Increase on Texas Roads; Distracted Driving Part of the Problem
Apr 18 2016 // The number of vehicle crashes in Texas involving injuries and fatalities rose from 139,646 in 2011 to 155,844 in 2014, an increase of 12 percent. That unfortunate trend continued in 2015, the Insurance Council of Texas...
People – South Central
Apr 18 2016 // Craig Dunn has been selected to lead the Dallas office of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas. He succeeds Todd Teitell, who is retiring after having served as office president since 1997. Prior to being promoted to this role, Dunn...
In Texas Court, Exxon Files to Block Climate-Change Document Subpoena
Apr 15 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. is squaring off against government investigators who believe the energy giant covered up knowledge of how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Exxon went to state court this week in Texas to quash a...
Texas Republican Congressman Named Big ‘I’ Legislator of the Year
Apr 15 2016 // Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, is the Gerald Solomon-Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) Legislator...
Texas ‘Affluenza’ Teen Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years in Jail
Apr 14 2016 // The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck must serve nearly two years in jail, a judge ordered. Ethan Couch, who turned 19 on April 11, was making his first appearance...
Large Hail Again Causes Damage in North Texas Cities
Apr 12 2016 // For the third time in a month large hail and damaging winds pummeled north Texas causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. The storms caused the most damage in cities just...
3 Appointed to Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas Board
Apr 12 2016 // Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has appointed three members to serve on the board of directors of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas for terms to expire Dec. 31, 2018. The board reviews and evaluates the...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Assoc. Expert Panel to Meet April 14
Apr 11 2016 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association expert panel will hold a public meeting this week to inform the public about the progress of the panel’s work, to allow the public to observe the panel discussing its work,...
Texas Mutual Insurance Names Evans VP of Marketing, Customer Engagement
Apr 8 2016 // Workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., hired Lisa Evans as vice president of marketing and consumer engagement. She oversees the marketing and customer engagement teams, and the Texas...
Fomby Named VP at Texas-Based LevelFirst
Apr 8 2016 // LevelFirst, a wholesale insurance broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., has appointed Rhonda Fomby as vice president. Fomby will assume the responsibility of underwriting new business opportunities...
Texas Teen’s Air Bag Death Spurs Renewed Call to Fix Recalled Cars
Apr 8 2016 // The brother of a Texas teenager killed by shrapnel from an exploding Takata Corp air bag said that his family never received a recall notice about the defective vehicle safety device. The brother’s comments came as...
Texas Teen’s Death Linked to Faulty Takata Air Bag, 10th in U.S.
Apr 7 2016 // A 10th person has died in a crash in the U.S. involving a ruptured Takata Corp. air-bag inflator, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A 17-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a...
Distracted Driving a Problem as Crashes Increase on Texas Roads
Apr 6 2016 // In 2015, the number of vehicle crashes in Texas involving both injuries and fatalities continued an unfortunate trend of increases over past years, an insurer trade group reported. The Insurance Council of Texas says...
Bolls Joins Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas as Finance Director
Apr 6 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) has appointed Kyle Bolls as director of Finance. Bolls previously worked in financial regulation for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), recently serving as the...
Farmers Expects More than $250M in Claims from Severe Weather in Texas
Apr 5 2016 // Farmers Insurance expects claims from two recent severe weather systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area will result in more than $250 million in losses. Intense hail and wind from the storms caused extensive damage to homes...
