Latest Texas Headlines
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Texas High Court: Contractor Not at Fault in Jail Death
Aug 21 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the descendents of a man who was found hanged with a telephone cord in a jail cell have no standing to recover damages from the contractor that supplied the telephone. In JCW...
Cindy Downs
Aug 21 2008 // Dallas-based wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent Towerstone Inc. has added four new members to its team. Cindy Downs was added as a senior underwriter in the firm’s MGA unit. Downs formerly was a...
TSLA President Says Sharing Knowledge Is Just One of Many Membership Perks
Aug 21 2008 // Lana Parks says her managing general agency, The Parks Group, bought a new computer system after a fellow member of the Texas Surplus Lines Association shared with her their experience and knowledge of the system....
The Old Switcheroo
Aug 21 2008 // Declarations “[W]ith Oklahoma City having a higher metropolitan population, I thought it would have been the other way around.” – Officer Craig Murray of the Tulsa Police Department. A recent report...
Business Moves
Aug 21 2008 // Woodlands Financial, Austin Indemnity The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) will acquire the renewal rights of the personal lines homeowners business of Austin Indemnity Lloyds Insurance Company (AILIC), effective Aug. 15,...
Colorado Ranks High on Tornado Charts
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
New Markets
Aug 21 2008 // New Markets The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Builders Risk and Affiliated...
Allstate Targets Texas’ Uninsured Drivers
Aug 20 2008 // Allstate has launched Allstate Blue in Texas, an insurance product aimed at uninsured drivers. The company said Allstate Blue is its seventh statewide product launch in 11 months. It has been estimated that as many as one...
Flooding Recedes in South Texas After Foot of Rain
Aug 20 2008 // The main highway in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley was open to traffic again Aug. 19 as flooding receded following a deluge of up to 13 inches of rain across southern Texas. The torrential rain flooded an estimated 750...
Texas-Based CAA Adds Garrett Insurance Agency
Aug 19 2008 // Garrett Insurance Agency Inc. has joined Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) as its 36th member agency. Garrett Insurance Agency was established in Kerrville, Texas, in 1918 by W. G. Garrett Jr. and L. D....
AG: New Identity Theft Scam Targets Texas Debit Card Users
Aug 15 2008 // The Texas Attorney General’s Office reports that a new identity theft scam is targeting users of the Texas Debit Card, or EPPICard, to access child support payments. should beware of that targets EPPICard users. The...
Texas-based American National to Challenge Utah Jury Verdict
Aug 14 2008 // Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company and its subsidiaries American National Property and Casualty Company and American National General Insurance Company plan to fight a jury verdict in a case related...
Harris County D.A. Considers Criminal Charges Against Bus Owner
Aug 13 2008 // Criminal charges were being considered against a Houston motorcoach owner and president whose bus crashed in north Texas killing 17 Vietnamese Catholics on their way to a religious festival in Missouri, according to a...
New Disaster Center Opened in South Texas to Help With Dolly Claims
Aug 13 2008 // A news disaster recovery center has been opened in Sebastian, Texas, with Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) staff on hand to assist South Texas consumers with Hurricane Dolly-related insurance issues. The new DRC opens...
Companies Linked to Texas Bus Crash Told to Shut Down
Aug 12 2008 // Companies linked to a bus that crashed in Texas and killed 17 people, most of them from Vietnamese Catholic congregations on their way to a religious festival, pose an “imminent hazard” and must cease...
Texas Windstorm Pool Takes Over Property Inspection Duties
Aug 12 2008 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently announced it is assuming the responsibility of getting exterior photographs and inspecting all structures submitted for coverage, whether residential or...
No License, No Insurance for Bus in Texas Crash That Killed 17
Aug 11 2008 // The operator of the tour bus that wrecked in an accident that killed 17 members of a Houston church Aug. 8 was not legally licensed and had no insurance. In addition to the fatalities, 40 people were injured when the bus...
Texas Orders $4.4M in Fines and Restitution in June
Aug 8 2008 // Enforcement actions by Texas Commissioner Mike Geeslin in June included five license revocations, a license denial, and fines and restitution totaling $4,422,505, theTexas Department of Insurance reported. Copies of...
Companies Cited for Violations in North Texas Explosion
Aug 7 2008 // A Texas Railroad Commission has found violations by a natural gas utility and one of its subcontractors connected to a deadly gas-related explosion in a Dallas suburb. The May 16 explosion destroyed two homes in McKinney...
Manney to Retire From Myron Steves
Aug 7 2008 // Bill Manney has announced his retirement from Texas-based insurance wholesaler Myron Steves after 40 years of service in the insurance industry. Manney served Myron Steves as West Texas business development...
