Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Debra Bowers
Apr 17 2006 // People Conroe, Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker Surplus Inc. announced key promotions within its management team. Debra Bowers was promoted to executive vice president. Bowers has 25 years...
TSLA’s Patterson: After 25 years, retirement is not an option
Apr 17 2006 // During April 2006, Jean Patterson, executive director of the Texas Surplus Lines Association, celebrates her 25th year with the organization. With this being the association’s 50th anniversary, Patterson can rightly...
News Currents
Apr 17 2006 // Tort reform remains an issue in South Central states Despite having passed tort reforms in 2003, Texas has one of the worst legal climates in the country according to a study released by the U.S. Chamber Institute for...
New Markets
Apr 17 2006 // New Markets Excess Auto Liability Nuts & Bolts: Freberg Environmental Inc. has announced an excess automobile liability program. The program is designed to provide excess limits more than FEI’s hazardous...
Professional Football Player Indicted in Texas for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 14 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Lubbock County grand jury indicted Shaheed Richardson on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Richardson allegedly collected $1,534 in workers’...
Work Comp Groups Select Texas Mutual’s Health Care Network Option
Apr 14 2006 // Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA) announced that Texas Home Builders (THB) Workers’ Compensation Purchasing Group and Texas Green Industry (TGI) Workers’ Compensation Purchasing Group members...
CIGNA HealthCare HRA Now Available to Texas Small Businesses
Apr 14 2006 // CIGNA HealthCare announced it is expanding the availability of its consumer-driven CIGNA Choice Fund Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) plans to businesses with 51-200 employees in Texas. The plan is also available in...
Texas AG Halts Father/Son Real Estate Scam Against Homeowners
Apr 10 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he has filed a court action to stop an El Paso, Texas, father and his two sons who operate an unlicensed “real estate” business from illegally taking earnest money...
Professional Underwriters’ Public Entity Programs Available in Texas
Apr 10 2006 // Professional Underwriters, a national program administrator for public entities, announced that their public entity programs are now available in Texas. Professional Underwriters will offer casualty line coverages through...
Workers’ Comp Seminar to be Offered in San Angelo, Texas
Apr 7 2006 // Workforce Solutions and the Angelo State University Small Business Development Center will sponsor a one-day educational seminar on Workers’ Compensation 101 and Return To Work presented by the Texas Department of...
Texas Producer Awarded Central Insurance Companies Scholarship
Apr 6 2006 // Kendall Ewan, vice president of Marketing for Evans, Ewan and Brady Insurance Agency Inc., of Georgetown, Texas, was recently awarded one of 10 scholarships from Central Insurance Companies. The national award is part of...
Okla. Among ‘Moderate States’ When it Comes to Lawsuit Liability
Apr 5 2006 // Oklahoma’s civil justice system ranks No. 33 among states in a national survey of lawyers representing insurance companies and public corporations and was judged better than some nearby states that have restricted...
Texas Gov.: State and Local Officials Best in Responding to Disaster
Apr 4 2006 // With the start of the hurricane season just two months away, Gov. Rick Perry said recent recommendations that the federal government assume primary control of disaster response is the wrong approach to take, the...
TDI’s Selden explains department’s high tech, high touch approach
Apr 3 2006 // Texas Department of Insurance Senior Associate Commis-sioner for Consumer Affairs Audrey Selden had a good news/bad news story for the insurance industry when she spoke at the Austin Insurance Day, sponsored in early March...
Kristin Wall
Apr 3 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation named Kristin Wall, president and chief operating officer, to replace Steve Cavanaugh as chief executive officer. Cavanaugh tendered his resignation at the March 16 Board...
Case Law Watch
Apr 3 2006 // Auto-Liability Fields v. American Central Insurance Co. (La. App., 2nd Dist., March 8, 2006) Undated named driver exclusion endorsement sufficient to defeat coverage: Lensing was involved in a June 18, 2003, auto accident...
Texas insurers see profits despite Hurricane Rita
Apr 3 2006 // Texas home insurers turned substantial profits last year despite Hurricane Rita’s destruction, prompting state regulators to question whether some companies’ rates are too high, the Associated Press...
Louisiana, Texas look to bonds for cat funding
Apr 3 2006 // With record hurricane losses in back to back seasons, states along the U.S. Gulf Coast are aiming to boost reserves for their insurers of last resort through the issuance of catastrophe bonds. Louisiana is hard at work...
News Currents
Apr 3 2006 // TDI’s Selden explains department’s high tech, high touch approach And tells a good news/bad news story along the way Texas Department of Insurance Senior Associate Commis-sioner for Consumer Affairs Audrey...
Homeowners – Texas
Apr 3 2006 // New Markets Nuts & Bolts: Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc., based in San Diego, Calif., is rolling out a new homeowners program in Texas. Coverage highlights in-clude: Specified additional amount of...
