Latest Texas Headlines
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78 Texas School Districts Without Safety Plan
Dec 19 2012 // Seventy-eight Texas school districts either have failed to submit state-mandated safety plans in the event of a mass shooting or have filed ones that are too incomplete to be useful, Attorney General Greg Abbott said on...
Louisiana Levies More Fines Against Texas Brine over Sinkhole
Dec 19 2012 // The Louisiana Office of Conservation has levied an additional $160,000 fine against Texas Brine Co. LLC. over a massive sinkhole. Commissioner James Welsh said the fine levied Dec. 17 is for continued failure to comply...
Oklahoma Lawmaker, Texas Governor Want Teachers to Be Armed
Dec 19 2012 // Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker. Republican Rep. Mark...
Texas Food Processing Companies Fined $134K for Alleged Safety Violations
Dec 18 2012 // Two Fort Worth, Texas-based companies have been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for multiple serious safety and health violations. Penalties total $134,000...
Allstate: Texas Car Crashes Spike More than 20% Around the Holidays
Dec 18 2012 // More Texans crash their cars during the holiday season than any other time of the year, according to an Allstate Insurance Co. review of its claims data over the five year period between 2006 and 2010. The number of auto...
Texas Wind Insurer: Agent Login Will Change Dec. 13
Dec 7 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is advising agents that the web address for its E-Quote login will change on Dec. 13, 2012. The old login address, https://quote.twia.org/twia/do/login, for use prior to Dec. 13,...
Texas Legislator: Extend Tax Break for Small Businesses
Dec 7 2012 // Texas state Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, of Kerrville, has filed legislation to promote small business development in Texas by permanently extending a tax exemption for companies that earn less than $1 million a year. In 2009,...
Texas Deputy Police Chief Wants Permanent DWI Checkpoints
Dec 7 2012 // A deputy police chief in South Texas has asked legislators to consider setting up permanent DWI checkpoints to save lives. San Antonio police Deputy Chief Anthony Trevino appeared in Austin before the Texas House Criminal...
Texas Work Comp ‘Notice to Employees’ Language Changes Jan. 1
Dec 6 2012 // State law requires Texas employers to notify employees if they carry workers’ compensation insurance. The TDI-DWC recently adopted amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code §110.101 (relating to Covered and...
Jan. 1 to Bring New Texas Work Comp Nonsubscriber Reporting Requirements
Dec 6 2012 // Effective Jan. 1, 2013, Texas employers who do not carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage have new requirements for reporting their non-coverage status to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Hogan Joins Texas-Based SWBC Insurance Services
Dec 5 2012 // SWBC Insurance Services, headquartered in San Antonio, announced that Michael Hogan has joined the team as senior risk control consultant. In this role, Hogan will provide safety-expertise services to the company’s...
Willis Boosts Construction Practice with 4 Ex-Aon Specialists, 2 Others
Dec 4 2012 // Willis North America has made a series of appointments in its construction practice to serve clients in the expanding default insurance marketplace. The following individuals comprise Willis’ Default Insurance Group,...
22 Students Receive Scholarships from Insurance Council of Texas
Dec 4 2012 // Twenty-two insurance and risk management students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students...
Texas Fire Marshall Touts Success of Sprinkler Systems in Apartment Complexes
Dec 3 2012 // Not one person has been killed in a fire in Texas in the past ten years inside an apartment complex that was equipped with a fire sprinkler system according to data provided by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. In...
Texas Mutual Looks to Sever Last Ties to State Oversight
Dec 3 2012 // The insurer of last resort for workers’ compensation coverage in Texas is seeking to cut its last ties to the state government that created it. Texas Mutual Insurance Co. was established by the Texas Legislature in...
Surplus Lines Premiums on the Rise in Texas
Dec 3 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. Texas also...
Mostly Verbal Warnings, not Tickets, to Texting Texas Drivers
Dec 3 2012 // A year since it began enforcing a ban on texting while driving, a North Texas city says awareness has increased despite the small number of tickets written. Arlington police have issued 49 citations to drivers who were...
People – South Central
Dec 3 2012 // Fort Worth-based Higginbotham has hired former U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigator Ross Carmichael as the new vice president of compliance and operations for its employee benefits division. Higginbotham brokers...
Surplus Lines Premium on the Rise in Texas
Nov 30 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. The state...
Tarrant County, Texas, Leads State in Hailstorms: NOAA
Nov 29 2012 // The residents of Fort Worth, Texas, and its suburbs in Tarrant County share the dubious honor of being the area most pounded by hailstorms than in any other part of the state, according to data compiled from the National...
