Latest Texas Headlines
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Sawyer Insurance Agency Merges with Higginbotham in Dallas
Jun 14 2013 // Higginbotham announced that Sawyer Insurance Agency has merged with its Dallas office. Sawyer Insurance in Richardson, Texas, has been owned and operated by agent Mike Sawyer since 1975. He and two insurance professionals...
FEMA Denies Texas Aid to Rebuild Town After Fertilizer Blast
Jun 13 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it won’t provide U.S. aid to help rebuild the town in Texas where an April fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people and leveled nearby buildings. In a June 10 letter to...
New Insurance Commissioner to Address Texas Insurance Symposium
Jun 10 2013 // Julia Rathgeber, newly appointed Commissioner of the Texas Department of Insurance, will speak at the 21st annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Insurance Symposium. The Symposium will be held in Austin on Thursday, July...
Fracking Companies Silence Water Complaints With Sealed Settlements
Jun 10 2013 // Chris and Stephanie Hallowich were sure drilling for natural gas near their Pennsylvania home was to blame for the headaches, burning eyes and sore throats they suffered after the work began. The companies insisted...
After Blast, Texas Town Fights to Keep its Residents
Jun 7 2013 // John Crowder stood on the gray concrete slab where his house once was in West, Texas, pointing out one spot after another. There was the garage where an overflow of guests would eat their Christmas dinner. There was the...
Texas Law Change Would Allow Reappraisals After Disaster
Jun 6 2013 // Hundreds of property owners whose homes and businesses were damaged by the earth-rattling fertilizer plant explosion that devastated the town of West in April may catch a break on their property taxes under recently...
Allstate Appoints Sedillo as Chief Executive of Texas Operations
Jun 4 2013 // The Allstate Insurance Company has named Larry Sedillo field senior vice president for the company’s Texas region, where he will lead business operations. Being appointed to this top spot in Texas has special meaning...
Amarillo Hailstorm Damage Estimated at $400M
Jun 3 2013 // A massive hailstorm that blanketed the Texas panhandle city of Amarillo on May 28 is proving costly. An estimated 35,000 vehicles and thousands of homes were damaged in the May 28 storm. Insured losses are expected to...
Texas Governor: Storm Insurance Special Session Possibility
Jun 3 2013 // Gov. Rick Perry has said he may add reshaping the troubled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to a special legislative session he’s already convened on redistricting, but wouldn’t yet say for sure whether...
Top 10 U.S. Insurers in Tornado-Stricken States: SNL Financial
Jun 3 2013 // The Moore, Oklahoma tornado, which killed 24 people, was the deadliest tornado to touch down during a nearly weeklong outbreak across the U.S. Midwest and South Central regions. The states hardest hit have been Kansas,...
Business Moves
Jun 3 2013 // Turner Barker, Clark Insurance Turner Barker Insurance, previously a subsidiary of Gorham Savings Bank, has completed its merger transaction with Clark Insurance. Both agencies are based in Portland, Maine. The deal was...
People – South Central
Jun 3 2013 // Mullis Newby Hurst LP (MNH), based in Addison, Texas, promoted John W. Newby to president and chief operating officer. Newby began his career with MNH in 2002 as executive vice president and partner. He previously served...
Oklahoma, Texas Take Aim at Overuse of Opioids in Workers’ Comp
Jun 3 2013 // In Texas and Oklahoma the battle against opioid abuse among injured workers is ongoing. Oklahoma in 2012 enacted legislation adopting the Work Loss Data Institute’s Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) as the...
Man Dies in Texas Construction Accident
May 31 2013 // Police say a construction worker at a site in College Station, Texas has died after being pinned to the ground by two 1,500-pound, 20-feet-long shoring panels. Police say 49-year-old Armando Gonzalez of Bryan died...
Kerpon Joins Swett & Crawford’s Transportation Team in Texas
May 30 2013 // Swett & Crawford has added Dallas, Texas-based Gina Kerpon as a transportation underwriter to its transportation practice group. She joins the company from Union Standard Insurance Co., also in Dallas, where she was a...
Rathgeber Appointed Texas Insurance Commissioner as Kitzman Exits
May 29 2013 // On the same day that Eleanor Kitzman exited her post as state insurance commissioner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry appointed Julia Rathgeber of Austin to take over leadership at the Texas Department of Insurance. Kitzman,...
Insured Texas Tornadoes Damage Could Reach $250M
May 28 2013 // An industry group says insured damage from recent deadly tornadoes in North Texas could reach $250 million. Mark Hanna with the Insurance Council of Texas says the rough estimate could change as insurers continue to gather...
Report: Texas Insurance Commissioner Stepping Down
May 28 2013 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman says she’s steeping down as head of the state’s insurance regulatory agency. The Austin American Statesman reported that Kitzman told her staff the previous day she...
Safety Board: ATF Blocking Texas Plant Blast Probe
May 23 2013 // Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the...
Top 10 U.S. Insurers in Tornado-Stricken States: SNL Financial
May 23 2013 // The Moore, Oklahoma tornado, which killed 24 people, was the deadliest to touch down during a nearly weeklong outbreak across the U.S. Midwest. The states hardest hit have been Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma,...
