Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Federal Crop Insurance Board Gets 4 New Directors
Feb 22 2013 // Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently named four new members of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. (FCIC) board of directors. The new appointees are James Bardenhagen, Iris Saenz, John F. Finston, and Kenneth Ray Sneed....
Court Orders Doctor to Repay $98K to Texas Mutual
Feb 21 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that a Travis County district court convicted Howard T. Douglas III, M.D., of Hurst, Texas, and his company, Western Medical Evaluators, on felony workers’ compensation...
Survey: Most Texas Voters Support Licensing Roofers
Feb 20 2013 // A recent survey shows that most registered Texas voters support the licensing of roofers in the state. According to the survey by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), when asked if roofing contractors should be licensed...
New Windstorm Rules Drive Texas Engineers Away
Feb 19 2013 // Hundreds of engineers have dropped out of a windstorm certification program following legislative changes to become certified by the Texas Department of Insurance. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported that more than...
Insurance Council of Texas Seeks Nominations for Group’s Highest Honor
Feb 13 2013 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) announced it is seeking nominations for the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award, the Council’s highest honor. The award will be presented on July 18, at the annual Mid-Year Property and...
Roussell Joins Mullis Newby Hurst as VP, Construction Marketing
Feb 11 2013 // Addison, Texas-based Mullis Newby Hurst LP (MNH), which specializes in construction insurance and surety bonds, has hired Raleigh Roussell as vice president of construction marketing to create new opportunities for the...
5 New Appointments Bring TWFG Near 300 Branch Mark
Feb 8 2013 // The Woodlands Financial Group, based in The Woodlands, Texas, announced the opening of five new local branches in Texas, California and Georgia The new TWFG branch managers and locations are: Michael Rice, Kennesaw,...
Texas Lawmaker Tackles Football in Public School Concussion Fight
Feb 7 2013 // A state lawmaker who wants to make concussion screenings as routine as physicals in Texas public school athletics has taken direct aim at football. State Rep. Eddie Lucio III has filed a bill that would limit high school...
Texas Crews Working to Prevent More Davis Mountains Fires
Feb 5 2013 // Texas Forest Service crews are beginning work to remove hazardous vegetation in the Davis Mountains resort area of West Texas to try to prevent a repeat of one of the state’s largest-ever wildfires two years ago. On...
Wright Retiring as Texas Mutual President, CEO; Gergasko Named Successor
Feb 5 2013 // Ron Wright, who has served as president and chief executive officer of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. since 2009, has announced that he will retire. Richard J. Gergasko, an insurance professional who most recently has worked...
Texas Mutual Awards $300K in Safety Education Grants
Feb 4 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City near Houston. The grants will continue to fund free workplace safety...
Appraisals, Breach of Contract and Bad Faith: Is There a Connection?
Feb 1 2013 // One of the axioms of Texas bad faith law has always been that there is no bad faith where a carrier has not breached its duties to the insured. If you act reasonably and make a mistake, it is not bad faith. In almost all...
Texas Online Insurance Comparison Start-Up Raises $1.5M
Jan 31 2013 // Insurance Zebra, a Texas-based online insurance comparison platform, announced it has raised $1.5 million in start-up capital from a group of high profile investors. Investors included Silverton Partners, Mark Cuban, Mike...
How Agents Survived a Falling Housing Market
Jan 31 2013 // It has not been easy being an insurance agent specializing in the homebuilders insurance market during one of the worst economic recessions in U.S. history. Survival in the recession meant change and a lot of hard...
Rural School Officials: Give Texas Teachers Guns
Jan 30 2013 // Superintendents of three small rural school districts that allow some teachers to carry guns told Texas lawmakers on Jan. 28 that the practice provides a critical measure of safety for students in the event of a campus...
IICF Hosting Black Tie Event in Texas
Jan 30 2013 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Texas-Southeast division is hosting a black tie benefit gala, Lone Star Legends, at the Hilton Anatole – Chantilly Ballroom, in Dallas, on Feb. 21. The keynote speaker...
Texas Medical Liability Trust to Provide Free EPL Coverage to Policyholders
Jan 29 2013 // Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) announced that on Feb. 1, 2013, employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) will be added to all TMLT policies at no extra premium. EPLI covers lawsuits caused by several...
Gun Sales Surge Leaves Texas Law Agencies Short
Jan 28 2013 // Police chiefs in Central Texas say they’re having trouble arming their officers due to shortages of assault rifles and ammunition. One police department has instructed its officers to try cutting back on ammunition...
Texas Bill Would Grant Liability Protection for Emergency Volunteers
Jan 28 2013 // A Texas state representative has filed a bill that would allow fire departments to accept volunteer assistance during an emergency and would shield those volunteers from liability. Rep. Cecil Bell, Jr. (Magnolia) filed,...
Business Moves – South Central
Jan 28 2013 // Caldwell and Partners, Midlands Holding Corp. Oklahoma-based Caldwell and Partners Inc. (CAP) acquired Midlands Holding Corp. (MHC) from PMA Capital Corp. (PMA). Midlands Management Corp. (Midlands) is a managing general...
