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Jun 19 2006 // State Farm adjusts rates in Texas State Farm Insurance recently submitted several filings to the Texas Department of Insurance, aiming for a balance with rate adjustments that include a reduction auto rates but an increase...
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Jun 19 2006 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced its newly elected 2006 management committee. Each management committee member is elected to serve a two-year term and is selected by CAA’s Board...
Study: Tort reforms reduce medical malpractice premiums
Jun 19 2006 // Tort reforms are the best proven instrument for reducing medical liability insurance premium growth, according to a new study conducted by Stanford University Professor Daniel P. Kessler, who also serves as a research...
New Property and Casualty Insurer Opens in Irving, Texas!
Jun 16 2006 // Irving, Texas – A new Property and Casualty insurer, Homeowners of America Insurance Company, has opened in Irving, Texas. Homeowners is a Texas company specializing in protecting residential property for Texans. In...
Three Sentenced in Texas Medicaid Scam
Jun 15 2006 // Three people have been sentenced in what prosecutors called a Medicaid fraud ring that used forged prescriptions. Eduardo Solis, 42, Juana “Janie” Garcia, 44, and Hermelinda Altamarino, 36, were indicted and...
Young Promoted to Assistant VP of Colemont – Texas
Jun 14 2006 // Dallas-based Colemont Insurance Brokers – Texas announced it has promoted Su Young’s to assistant vice president. “Su’s comprehensive knowledge and expertise within our financial, professional, and...
Small Businesses in Texas and Okla. Qualify for Disaster Loans
Jun 14 2006 // Small businesses in 39 Texas counties and one in Oklahoma are eligible for low-interest loans meant to recoup losses from several natural disasters that occurred this year, the U.S. Small Business Administration said...
Texas Comptroller Unveils New Tax Calculator for Businesses
Jun 14 2006 // Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn announced a tax calculator available on the comptroller’s Web site that will allow Texas businesses to estimate how much franchise tax they will pay as a result of recent tax...
Thompson, Coe Honored as a Leading Texas Insurance Law Firm
Jun 14 2006 // The 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, a guide of the best business lawyers in the U.S., recently recognized Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons L.L.P. as a “Tier One”...
Texas Insurer Group Says Alberto May be Omen for Rest of Season
Jun 13 2006 // Tropical Storm Alberto should be a warning to all coastal residents in Texas that the 2006 hurricane season may exceed the expectations for an overly active storm season. The Insurance Council of Texas urges everyone...
FEMA Publishes New Flood Risk Maps for Texas Counties
Jun 9 2006 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is presenting draft flood risk maps to communities in Travis and Burnet counties in Texas – areas that flood frequently. The...
Attorneys: Summary Judgment in Texas Work Comp Case Sets Precedent
Jun 8 2006 // Attorneys Anthony Cox and Greta Matzen, with the Dallas-based law firm of Hermes Sargent Bates LLP, announced they obtained a summary judgment of damages stating that Section 41.0105 of the Texas Civil Practice and...
CompPAC Trust of Texas Expands Work Comp Eligibility to Artisan Contractors
Jun 6 2006 // The CompPAC Trust of Texas, a workers’ compensation self-insurance group administered by First Cardinal of Texas Ltd., reported it has received approval from the Texas Department of Insurance to expand its list of...
CAA Elects New Management Committee
Jun 6 2006 // At its annual meeting May 24-25, Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced its newly elected 2006 management committee, including CAA’s new president, Bill Bridges, executive vice...
M. J. Kelly Company Acquires Fort Worth’s Russell Grace
Jun 5 2006 // The Arkansas division of M. J. Kelly Company, an insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Springfield, Mo., announced that it executed an agreement to purchase certain assets of Russell Grace Inc., Fort Worth,...
Allstate report ranks South Dakota drivers as safest
Jun 5 2006 // Residents of Sioux Falls, S.D., are the safest drivers in the United States, according to the second-annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report.” The largest city in South Dakota moves up from the...
TDI: ALLSTATE MUST REDUCE RATES, REFUND CUSTOMERS
Jun 5 2006 // In late May Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Gees-lin signed an order requiring Allstate Texas Lloyds to reduce rates for all Texas policyholders by 5 percent and to refund to policyholders the amount overcharged since...
People and Places
Jun 5 2006 // Oklahoma City-based managing general underwriter and third party administrator Midlands Management Corporation appointed Pamela McMillan Eyerly to the position of vice president of Human Resources. She will manage...
John Lary Kephart
Jun 5 2006 // Long time San Antonio insurance professional John Lary Kephart, age 86, passed away May 9, 2006, at his home in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Amorita, Okla., on March 30, 1920, to the...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Chief of state’s workers’ comp division says much reform work has been done but there’s more to do Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’...
