Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pennsylvania AG Sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance
Oct 15 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees’ health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, leaving some...
Texas-based Firm Named PIA’s Managing General Agency of the Year
Oct 13 2009 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Empower Insurance Group MGA Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, as recipient of its 2009 Managing General Agency of the Year Award. “Empower...
Loss Control Leads to $801K Dividend for Texas Auto Dealers
Oct 9 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced an $801,625 dividend to the Lone Star Auto Dealers (LSA) purchasing group. LSA has earned nearly $4 million in dividends since 2002. The dividend...
Texas Woman Sentenced in Distracted Driving Case
Oct 7 2009 // A state district judge in Texas has sentenced a woman to 30 days in jail, 10 years probation and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine for criminally negligent homicide in connection with a case of “distracted...
Insurance Network of America Adds Swinney to Serve North Texas
Oct 7 2009 // Insurance Network of America, based in Austin, Texas, announced it continues to strengthen its law firm insurance and risk mitigation presence with the addition of Steve Swinney, who has joined the company’s...
Insurance Network of America Adds Nunley and Johnson
Oct 6 2009 // Austin, Texas-based national insurance broker, Insurance Network of America, has added C. Patrick Nunley, JD in its Professional Services Practice Group in a consultative role. Additionally, the firm welcomed Tahnee L....
HCC Insurance Holdings Forms Texas Regional Surety Office
Oct 6 2009 // Houton-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. has appointed Paul A. “Tony” Yasilli, Jr. as a vice president and regional director of American Contractors Indemnity Company and U.S. Specialty Insurance Company,...
California Environmental Extremist Arrested for 2006 Arson
Oct 5 2009 // Three years after the discovery of a failed incendiary device at a suburban Pasadena real estate construction site, FBI agents have used DNA analysis to arrest a man in Texas in a case they believe may involve...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Oct 5 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
People
Oct 5 2009 // David Daniel was named chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”). He will lead the organization as chairman for the 2009-2010 term. Daniel is president of Daniel &...
Gulf Coast Construction Deemed ‘Woefully Inadequate’ for Storm Surge
Oct 5 2009 // Government minimum flood elevation requirements for properties vulnerable to storm surge throughout the Gulf Coast region are “woefully inadequate,” according to a new study of property damage caused by...
It Figures
Oct 5 2009 // $135.4 Million Texas plans to spend an estimated $135.4 million to mitigate beach erosion along the Texas Gulf Coast from South Padre Island to McFaddin Beach. According to Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who...
Business Moves
Oct 5 2009 // TWFG The Woodlands Financial Group Inc. (TWFG), a retail and managing general agency based in The Woodlands, Texas, has opened three new branch locations. Steve Lovecchio opened a new branch in New Orleans, La. Lovecchio...
States Give a ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Oct 5 2009 // Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly...
Declarations
Oct 5 2009 // They Could Have Been Fixed “The people could have fixed their homes if they had money. But they (state officials) are so scared that somebody’s going to get a dime they shouldn’t have gotten, nobody gets...
Texas Publishes 3rd Annual Workers’ Comp Network Report Card
Oct 1 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Workers’ Compensation Research and Evaluation Group has published an annual report card on the performance of Workers’ Compensation Health Care Networks as required by...
Six Texas Cities to Receive Smoke Alarms
Sep 30 2009 // Firefighters in six Texas cities will be installing smoke alarms into the homes of low income and elderly residents thanks to this year’s “We’re Out to Alarm Texas” smoke alarm campaign. The program...
Texas Apartment Association Program Earns $395K Comp Dividend
Sep 30 2009 // The Texas Apartment Association Workers’ Compensation Program has earned a 14 percent, or $395,000, dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Program administrators Michael Whorton and Charles Garner of Whorton...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate for 4th Quarter
Sep 29 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the rate for any interest or discount provided for in state workers’ comp statutes at 3.88 percent for the period effective Oct. 1,...
4 Years Later, Texas Housing Agency Says Rita Aid Pace Picking Up
Sep 28 2009 // Hundreds of southeast Texans displaced by Hurricane Rita four years ago are still waiting for new federally funded homes to be built while a state agency tries to spend the housing construction money it has a little...
