Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lusk Joins PWIB Texas
Mar 8 2007 // Fred Lusk has joined insurance wholesaler PWIB Texas as broker/underwriter, the company announced. Lusk previously was associated with other leading insurance wholesalers and has been involved that field since 1969. PWIB...
Legacy Texas Adds Commercial Lines Producers
Mar 8 2007 // North Texas-based Legacy Texas Insurance announced the addition of three new commercial lines producers. Josh Bagert and Nick Paschal, a recent graduate from Southern Methodist University, began with the agency in November...
Texas Agent Association, PTA Launch Program to Fight Teen Drinking
Mar 7 2007 // The Texas PTA and the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced they have launched a statewide campaign designed to prevent underage drinking. According to the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Texas...
Violent Weather Bypassing Texas; Drought to Linger
Mar 7 2007 // The drought-like weather conditions that have plagued much of the state for the past three years have had a positive effect in limiting the number of damaging hailstorms and tornadoes in Texas. Meteorologists say the lack...
Hurricane Rita’s Claims Total $5.8B in Texas and Louisiana
Mar 6 2007 // The final tally for the cost of claims from Hurricane Rita in both Louisiana and Texas came to $5.8 billion. Hurricane Rita’s 120 mile per hour winds plowed into the Texas/Louisiana border on Sept. 24, 2005, one...
Texas Work Comp Commissioner Names New Medical Advisor
Mar 6 2007 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently named Howard L. Smith, M.D., as medical advisor for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation (Division). Dr....
FDA Warns Against Eating Raw Texas Oysters After Virus Outbreak
Mar 5 2007 // The Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating raw oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay in Texas because more than two dozen people in Maryland became ill last month. The FDA said 25 people developed...
American Meridian Insurance Company in Receivership
Mar 1 2007 // The State of Texas has placed American Meridian Insurance Company into permanent receivership and ordered its liquidation. American Meridian is organized under the laws of Bermuda where it is a company in good standing. It...
Texas District Sets Helmet Rule after Baseball Player’s Death
Mar 1 2007 // Anyone who uses a Grapevine-Colleyville school district batting cage will be required to wear a helmet under new rules adopted in response to a baseball player’s death. The Dallas-area school district announced new...
New Markets
Feb 26 2007 // Banking Engagement Insurance Nuts & Bolts: National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. (National Union), a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG), announced the launch of its Investment...
Vanek promoted to CEO of NLASCO
Feb 26 2007 // Affordable Residential Communities closes acquisition of Texas-based insurer Affordable Residential Communities Inc. of Englewood, Colo., closed its previously announced acquisition of Waco, Texas-based NLASCO Inc., a...
People and Places
Feb 26 2007 // Covington, La.-based First Premium Insurance Group Inc., a regional property and casualty insurance broker, added a new team member, Crystal DePascual. DePascual joined First Premium’s staff as marketing...
Reaping the wind will be the responsibility of insurers
Feb 26 2007 // There seem to be many questions on the minds of consumers, agents and public policy makers about coastal insurance issues presently and in the future. As an industry, we have been forthright about insurance issues facing...
It Figures
Feb 26 2007 // $309 Million The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 households wrongly received $309.1 million in grants related to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, and officials acknowledge those...
Why a regional carrier might be an agent’s best friend
Feb 26 2007 // The old saying “all politics is local” is born of the realization that the things that most directly affect us are local issues. In that respect, one could say that insurance is a local business. Risk...
Coming to the Rescue: States get ready to modernize surplus lines regulation
Feb 26 2007 // Bernd (Bernie) G. Heinze, executive director of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), recalls a perfect example of the regulatory difficulties the surplus lines industry faces. A colleague at a...
New Markets
Feb 25 2007 // Banking Engagement Insurance Nuts & Bolts: National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. (National Union), a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG), announced the launch of its Investment...
People
Feb 25 2007 // Covington, La.-based First Premium Insurance Group Inc., a regional property and casualty insurance broker, added a new team member, Crystal DePascual. DePascual joined First Premium’s staff as marketing...
Reaping the wind will be the responsibility of insurers
Feb 25 2007 // There seem to be many questions on the minds of consumers, agents and public policy makers about coastal insurance issues presently and in the future. As an industry, we have been forthright about insurance issues facing...
Figures
Feb 25 2007 // $309 Million The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 households wrongly received $309.1 million in grants related to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, and officials acknowledge those...
