Latest Texas Headlines
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Austin-Based Service Lloyds Insurance Co. Promotes Collier, Kearbey
Jul 15 2014 // Austin, Texas-based Service Lloyds Insurance Co. announced changes to its management team. G. Steven Collier has been named vice president of underwriting. Collier is a senior-level executive with over 34 years of success...
Texas-Based Insurance Agency Aggregator, CAA, Grew by 21% in 2013
Jul 14 2014 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that through organic and membership growth the insurance agency aggregator grew by 21 percent in 2013. CAA wrote more than $707.8 million in...
Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Asks City not to Ban Fracking
Jul 14 2014 // The head of the agency that regulates the oil and gas industry in Texas is asking officials of Denton in North Texas to withhold support from a grass-roots petition advocating a ban on hydraulic fracturing within the city...
Damage Estimate in Texas Hailstorm Pegged at $400M
Jul 11 2014 // The June 12 hail storm in Abilene, Texas, is expected to hit $400 million in insured losses to vehicles, homes and commercial property, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. It was the second catastrophic hailstorm this...
USG Insurance Services Adds O’Bier in Arlington, Texas Office
Jul 11 2014 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has added Stephanie O’Bier as an associate producer/broker in its Arlington, Texas, office. O’Bier most recently held the position of senior...
TWFG Top 2014 Branches, Agents Honored
Jul 10 2014 // Texas-based The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) honored the top branch offices and agents from across the network of more than 300 insurance agencies affiliated under the TWFG Insurance Services umbrella with awards. The...
6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
Jul 10 2014 // More than 6.5 million homes along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of storm surge inundation, representing nearly $1.5 trillion in total potential reconstruction costs. More than $986 billion of that risk is...
Central Texas Home an Example of the Benefits of Building Stronger
Jul 9 2014 // A home in Burnet County, Texas, that was picked up and carried 100 yards by a tornado last month, was reinforced according to its owner, Trenton Ashworth. The National Weather System reported that the EF-2 tornado that hit...
12 Companies Approved to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp in Texas
Jul 9 2014 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) approved 12 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the DWC...
Texas Doctor Gets 5 Years in Prison on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Jul 8 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Howard T. Douglas III, M.D. of Frisco was sentenced to five years’ confinement. On May 16, 2014, a Travis County jury convicted Douglas on felony workers’ compensation...
Texas Supermarket Chain Recalls 38 Tons Of Fresh Beef Products
Jul 7 2014 // The HEB supermarket chain is recalling almost 38 tons of fresh beef products over concerns that it might be contaminated with metal fragments from a failed bearing. The recall was announced Thursday by the Food Safety and...
All in the Family: Father and Daughter Honored by Texas Agents
Jul 7 2014 // A father-daughter team were awarded some of the highest honors bestowed upon independent agents in Texas at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas annual conference and trade show, held recently in San Antonio. Kelly...
As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
Jul 7 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37. 5...
Business Moves
Jul 7 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher, The Plus Cos., Tri-State General Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Plus Cos. Inc. (TPC) in Bridgewater, N.J. Terms were not disclosed. Established in 1985, TPC is a managing general agent...
Higginbotham Acquires Share of Willis of Texas Inc.’s Operations
Jul 3 2014 // Higginbotham has purchased a portion of Willis of Texas Inc.’s operations. The transaction includes Willis of Texas’ operations in San Antonio, McAllen, Victoria and Tyler. Combined, they add 35 employees and...
Beacon Hill’s South Central Texas Office Moves
Jul 2 2014 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc.’s South Central office has moved to Houston, Texas. The centrally located Houston office at 20333 State Highway 249, Suite 315 allows better access to the firm’s group of agency...
Texas Engineering Board to Review Flawed High School Stadium
Jun 30 2014 // The Texas Board of Professional Engineers is investigating whether laws or rules regarding professional practices were broken over flaws that closed a $60 million high school football stadium. The state’s engineering...
Floor Collapses at Texas Home, 36 Taken to Hospitals
Jun 30 2014 // A floor collapsed under a large crowd of people gathered for a religious event at a suburban Houston home, sending three dozen people to hospitals, though most suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The collapse...
Surge in Oklahoma Quakes Has Residents Seeking Answers
Jun 27 2014 // Oklahoma residents whose homes and nerves have been shaken by an upsurge in earthquakes want to know what’s causing the temblors — and what can be done to stop them. Hundreds of people were expected to turn out in...
The Political Battle Over Export-Import Bank
Jun 27 2014 // A day before U.S. House Republicans were to vote on a new majority leader, lawmakers aligned with the limited-government Tea Party movement delivered a message to the leading candidate, Kevin McCarthy of California. They...
