Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas Mutual Wraps up $150M Dividend Distribution
Nov 16 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. t it is distributing approximately $1.8 million in workers’ compensation dividends. Approximately 3,000 new policyholders earned dividends based largely on their workplace safety and claim...
Hailstorms Are the Costliest Natural Peril in Texas
Nov 14 2012 // Hurricanes may garner more attention but in Texas, hailstorms, not hurricanes, are the most damaging weather events that Texans face annually, according to the state’s insurance regulators. And, unlike hurricanes,...
Craddick Bill Would Ban Texting While Driving in Texas
Nov 14 2012 // Texas Rep. Tom Craddick (Midland) has filed House Bill 63, the Alex Brown Memorial Act, which would implement a statewide ban on texting while driving. According to Craddick, House Bill 63 introduces a common sense safety...
Texas Commissioner: Windstorm Will Be an Issue for Texas Lawmakers
Nov 13 2012 // Among the hundreds of bills filed by Texas lawmakers on the first day of filing for the 2013 legislative session are a handful of proposals related to property/casualty insurance. There are bound to be more, but one...
Louisiana Bills Texas Company $3.5M for Sinkhole Costs
Nov 12 2012 // The state of Louisiana sent a $3.5 million bill to the Texas company it blames for a massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than 5 acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer. Attorney General Buddy...
Texas Manufacturer Faces $64K Fine for Workplace Hazards
Nov 9 2012 // A Belton, Texas-based cabinet manufacturer has been cited by federal regulators for safety violations in the workplace and faces a fine of $64,800. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
No Change in Rate of Nonfatal Injuries, Illnesses in Private Sector in Texas
Nov 8 2012 // Private industry workplaces in Texas reported a total of 196,642 nonfatal injuries and illnesses during 2011, an incidence rate of 2.7 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, which was unchanged from the previous year,...
Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Offers WAHVE Staffing Services
Nov 8 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) is offering its members remote staffing services provided by WAHVE (Work At Home Vintage Employees) on a preferred basis. WAHVE provides experienced insurance professionals...
Anti-Lawsuit Groups, Lawyers Fueling Texas Races
Nov 6 2012 // Millions of dollars have been pumped into typically low-spending Texas Legislature races in recent weeks by groups hoping to limit the amount of money that can be awarded in lawsuits and attorneys fighting such...
Newspaper: Texas’ Oversight of Compounded Drugs Falling Off
Nov 6 2012 // Budget cuts have reduced the number of pharmacies in Texas whose compounded drugs are tested in a state program that’s aimed at ensuring patient safety, a newspaper has reported. The Austin American-Statesman said...
Texas Sees Reduction in Average Cost of Work Comp Claim
Nov 6 2012 // The average cost of a workers’ compensation claim in Texas declined recently, following several years of growth, according to a new study, Monitoring the Impact of Reforms and Recession in Texas: CompScope 13th...
Workers’ Comp Premiums in Texas Drop by 49% Since 2005
Nov 5 2012 // Texas employers are seeing a major reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premiums, an insurance trade group reports. The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) says the drop is the result of reforms in House Bill 7,...
Declarations – Southcentral
Nov 5 2012 // Patently Unfair “The whole idea that a court would send someone there involuntarily and then charge them for it is patently unfair.” —L. Jeth Jones, an attorney for a Texas man ordered to a state psychiatric...
People – South Central
Nov 5 2012 // Dominic Casserley will serve as the next chief executive officer of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, effective Jan. 7, 2013. Also, Steve Hearn, currently the chairman and CEO of Willis Global, will serve as...
Texas Lawmaker: TWIA’s Ike Litigation Costs Still Rising
Nov 5 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for coastal property has paid out more than $1.2 billion in individual litigation costs related to 2008’s Hurricane Ike, one state lawmaker says. Information released by Rep. Larry...
Texas Declares ‘War on Hail’ with Mitigation Symposium
Nov 4 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance is declaring “War on Hail” with a symposium to be held in Irving on Nov. 27. The department noted that Texas leads the nation in hailstorm damage. In 2011, insured residential...
Former Texas Agent Gets 10 Years, Must Repay $9.3M for Fraud
Nov 2 2012 // A former North Texas insurance salesman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and must repay more than $9.3 million in a fraud case. Federal prosecutors in Dallas say 76-year-old Robert Hague-Rogers of Frisco wrongly...
Texas Lawmaker: Windpool’s Ike Litigation Costs Still Rising
Oct 29 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for coastal property has paid out more than $1.2 billion in individual litigation costs related to Hurricane Ike, which struck in 2008, one state lawmaker says. Information released by...
Waco, Texas-Based Agent Named Trusted Choice Hometown Hero
Oct 26 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Wes Bailey, president of Bailey Insurance & Risk Management Inc. in Waco, as its newest Trusted Choice Hometown Hero. The Hometown Hero program recognizes...
85 MPH Texas Highway Opening Today
Oct 24 2012 // With today’s opening of a 40-mile stretch of a Central Texas toll road, officials and residents will be watching to see how fast traffic goes — and whether the state’s drivers can handle the extra speed. The...
