Latest Texas Headlines
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Galveston, Texas, Schools Boost Insurance to Brace for Storms
Mar 31 2006 // The Galveston, Texas, school board voted to triple its insurance payments to keep up with higher rates for windstorm coverage. With hurricane season approaching, the coastal district will pay $1.3 million in premiums to...
Texas Joint Committee on Windstorm Coverage Selected
Mar 30 2006 // Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and Speaker Tom Craddick recently released the names of Senate and House of Representatives appointees to the Joint Select Committee on Windstorm Coverage. The Joint Select...
Texas Mutual Introduces Online Wage Reporting Tool
Mar 30 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company introduced its newest tool at texasmutual.com: DWC-3 Employers’ Wage Statement reporting. The tool reduces cumbersome paperwork and helps ensure that injured workers receive timely,...
Loftis Named Head of Governmental Affairs at IIAT
Mar 29 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that H. Lee Loftis has been named director of governmental affairs. Loftis will be responsible for representing the interests of the statewide association in both the...
New Officers Elected for Texas Windstorm Association, FAIR Plan
Mar 29 2006 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and Texas FAIR Plan Association have elected new officers for 2006. Elected were: chairman, James Elbert, owner of Elbert Insurance Agency in Lake Jackson, Texas; vice chairman,...
Insurer Group Offers Flood Protection Tips for Texas Homeowners
Mar 28 2006 // As part of its ongoing consumer education campaign, the Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions is reminding homeowners to protect themselves during the spring flood season. Noting that floods often happen fast...
Most Texas Insurers Profited Despite Hurricane Rita
Mar 24 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...
Brown Joins PWIB Texas as VP
Mar 24 2006 // Braden Brown has joined Dallas-based PWIB Texas as vice president. Brown formerly was associated with other leading insurance wholesalers in the Dallas area and has experience with a retail insurance organization in...
Hallmark Financial Services Promotes Morrison and Kasitz
Mar 23 2006 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. reported it has promoted Mark J. Morrison to the position of president, effective April 1, 2006. Mark E. Schwarz, chairman and chief executive officer of Hallmark,...
The Doctors Company to Reduce Malpractice Premiums in Texas by 18%
Mar 23 2006 // California-based medical malpractice insurance provider, The Doctors Company, reported that premiums for new and renewing policyholders in Texas will drop by an average of 18 percent beginning April 1, 2006, for new...
Torchmark Corp. Moving Headquarters to Texas
Mar 23 2006 // Torchmark Corporation announced it is moving its corporate headquarters to McKinney, Texas, from Birmingham, Ala. McKinney, a north Dallas suburb, has been the home of one of Torchmark’s subsidiaries, United American...
WSS’ Dallas Branch Promotes Mendez
Mar 23 2006 // Kyle Stevens, vice president and branch manager of WSS’ Texas office, announced that Holly Swain Mendez has been promoted to the position of broker. Mendez, reporting directly to Stevens, will be responsible for new...
CIGNA HealthCare Expands CIGNA Custom Benefit Builder in Texas
Mar 23 2006 // CIGNA HealthCare announced it is expanding the availability of its new CIGNA Custom Benefit Builder to mid-sized customers in Texas. CIGNA Custom Benefit Builder gives consumers more choices and a way to build a customized...
Texas Governor Issues Order on Hurricane Evacuation Procedures
Mar 22 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order that implements most of the recommendations of the Task Force on Evacuation Transportation and Logistics. “Our goal is to learn from the lessons that Hurricane Rita...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division to Host Workplace Health/Safety Conference
Mar 22 2006 // As part of its mission to help employers and employees maintain safe workplaces and prevent occupational injuries and illnesses, the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will host the 10th...
‘Long Overdue’ Northeast Warned to Prepare for ‘Historic’ Weather Disaster This Year
Mar 22 2006 // The northeast U.S. coast could be the target of a major hurricane, perhaps as early as this season, according to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center. The weather experts say this year could bring the Northeast a storm...
Arrowhead Rolls Out New Homeowners Product in Texas
Mar 21 2006 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. introduced a new HOB homeowners program for Texas. The program is offered in conjunction with Balboa Insurance Company, an admitted insurer, rated...
TEXAS JUDGE’S RULING PARTIALLY FAVORS ALLSTATE AND STERLING
Mar 20 2006 // Allstate and Sterling Autobody Centers can communicate benefits of its shops, a federal district judge in Texas has ruled. In a news release, Allstate reported that on March 9, 2006, the judge in Allstate, et al. v....
For O & G operators, contracts and coverages go hand in hand
Mar 20 2006 // (Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series addressing risk management for the Oil and Gas operator. The first appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005, issue of Insurance Journal-Texas/South Central, the second ran...
$1.5B paid on more than 180K Rita claims
Mar 20 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas reported that insurance companies have settled 90 percent of property claims in Texas that resulted from the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita that struck in late September 2005. According...
