Latest Texas Headlines
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Federal Aid Coming After Fall Storms In Texas
Dec 24 2013 // President Barack Obama has ordered federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts in areas of Central Texas hit with severe storms and flooding in late October. Obama last week declared a major disaster exists in the...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Barmore in Texas
Dec 24 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Barmore Insurance Agency Inc. in Houston, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Barmore is an insurance broker providing retail and wholesale commercial property/casualty,...
Texas Lawmaker Wants Probe into Windstorm Insurance Association Emails
Dec 23 2013 // A Texas lawmaker has called for an investigation into racist emails uncovered within the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, which acknowledged in court that bigotry could have influenced a claim filed by a...
President Declares Disaster for Texas Flooding
Dec 23 2013 // Federal aid will head to Texas now that President Obama has declared a disaster area as a result of severe storms and flooding that hit the state during the period of Oct. 30-31, 2013. The U.S. Department of Homeland...
Texas Tries Again to Put Drunk-Driving Teen Behind Bars
Dec 19 2013 // Texas prosecutors are trying a second time to imprison a teen who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for drunkenly driving his truck into four pedestrians, killing them all. Tarrant County District Attorney Joe...
Gentry to Retire from Insurance Council of Texas
Dec 18 2013 // Rick Gentry, executive director of the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) since 1997, has announced that he will retire from the association at the end of March 2014. “It is hard to imagine a better professional...
Questionable Insurance Claims on the Rise in Texas: Report
Dec 18 2013 // Questionable insurance claims rose by 38 percent in Texas from 2010 through 2012, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reports. Questionable claims (QC) are those claims that NICB member insurance companies refer to...
Higginbotham Hires Ponder as AVP, Loss Control, for South Texas
Dec 18 2013 // Alan W. Ponder has joined the Houston office of insurance brokerage and financial services firm, Higginbotham, as assistant vice president of loss control. Ponder will apply his three-decade career in loss prevention to...
Texas No Longer No. 1 in High Home Insurance Rates
Dec 18 2013 // An industry group says Texas homeowners no longer are paying the highest insurance rates in the country, a distinction that now goes to Florida residents. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Disavows Racism Allegations
Dec 16 2013 // Texas’ insurer of last resort in coastal areas has denied allegations that a culture of racism has existed within the organization. Responding to claims by a Houston-based trial lawyer that employees of the Texas...
People
Dec 16 2013 // Glenn Renwick The Progressive Corp., based in Mayfield Village, Ohio, named Chief Executive Officer Glenn Renwick as chairman of its board of directors following the death of the company’s previous chairman, Peter B....
How Agents and Brokers Help Communities Nationwide
Dec 16 2013 // IMA Dallas employees James Dark and Sharon Sanford paint walls at a child care center. IMA Big on Volunteerism In addition to giving back with volunteerism, one of the key financial goals of employee-owned IMA is to...
Cost of North Texas Ice Storm Insured Damage Estimated at $30M
Dec 15 2013 // Damage from this month’s North Texas ice storm has reached at least $30 million in residential insured losses, according to an industry group. Officials with the Insurance Council of Texas said the losses include...
Probation Sentence in Texas Teen’s Fatal DWI Wreck Stirs Ire
Dec 13 2013 // A North Texas teen from an affluent family was sentenced to probation this week after he killed four pedestrians when he lost control of his speeding pickup truck while driving drunk, a punishment that outraged the...
Insurance Program Provider Energi Opens New Office in Irving, Texas
Dec 10 2013 // Energi, a provider of risk management and insurance programs for the energy industry, has opened a new satellite office in Irving, Texas. The new office is located in The Towers at Williams Square. Energi also plans to...
South Texas Jury Awards $281 Million in Lawsuit
Dec 9 2013 // The family of a man killed by a part breaking off a truck doing Eagle Ford Shale oilfield work has won a $281 million lawsuit judgment from a South Texas jury. The Dimmit County lawsuit stemmed from the May, 29, 2012,...
Ex-Texas, South Carolina Regulator Kitzman Joins Starr Insurance as VP
Dec 9 2013 // Starr Companies said it has appointed Eleanor Kitzman as vice president of Starr Insurance Holdings Inc. Kitzman will have regulatory, management and operational responsibilities across the company’s domestic and...
Texas to Workers’ Comp Carriers: Direction of Care for Pharmacy Services Prohibited
Dec 9 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has sent a reminder to Texas workers’ compensation system participants that insurance carriers, including their agents, are prohibited from...
Wal-Mart Heiress Gets Texas DWI Arrest Expunged
Dec 6 2013 // Alice Walton, the billionaire daughter of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, has had a 2011 arrest in Texas for suspected drunken driving cleared from her record after prosecutors declined to press formal...
Texas Independent Insurance Agents, Wholesalers Team Up for Community Service
Dec 6 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts in December to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank located in Austin, Texas. Food and money were...
