Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Return-to-Work Pilot Program Created for Small Employers in Texas
Feb 8 2006 // To encourage small employers to find ways to return their employees to the job sooner after a workplace injury, Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts has signed and submitted to the Texas Register...
Agents Win Round in Texas Courts Over Insurer’s Claim of ‘Trade Secrets’
Feb 7 2006 // A group of agents recently won a round in a Texas court in their fight to have documents that an insurance company has claimed were trade secrets unsealed and made available to the public. Travis County District Judge...
Texas DWC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Rules
Feb 7 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Division of Workers’ Compensation is accepting public comment on proposed rules. All proposed rules may be viewed on the TDI Web site at www.tdi.state.tx.us/wc/indexwc.html...
The big one
Feb 6 2006 // Is this the year Texas will be hit by the “big one?” Last year, Louisiana and Mississippi got hammered, Alabama and Florida, too, along with the year before. The big one, of course, is a hurricane–a...
People & Places
Feb 6 2006 // Dianne Morris of Austin, Texas, has been elected president of the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) for 2006-2007. Morris is president of the Association Casualty Insurance Company. She succeeds...
Court sides with Allstate in Rita evacuee expenses case
Feb 6 2006 // A state district judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled Allstate will not have to cover the living expenses of evacuees displaced from their homes by Hurricane Rita if thier homes were not damaged, the Houston Chronicle and the...
Insurers seek bond measures for Texas catastrophe fund
Feb 6 2006 // Taking a cue from the Scout motto “Be Prepared,” a group of insurers is recommending legislation that would allow for generating funds to help pay for the reconstruction of the Texas coast should a powerful...
Baylor University endowed professorship honors Texas agent
Feb 6 2006 // Bill Bailey, founder of Bailey Insurance & Financial Services in Waco, Texas, was honored recently with the establishment of the Bill Bailey Endowed Professorship of Insurance & Risk Management in Baylor...
Spitzer probe brought bad practices to light, panel says
Feb 6 2006 // That the investigation of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into compensation practices of the nation’s insurance brokers and carriers brought to light the unethical behavior of some bad industry apples was a...
Baylor University endowed professorship honors Texas agent
Feb 5 2006 // Presentation of scholarship endowment to Baylor University. Pictured from left to right: Dr. Terry Maness, Dean of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University; Bill Bailey, Founder of Bailey Insurance &...
News Currents
Feb 5 2006 // Court sides with Allstate in Rita evacuee expenses case A state district judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled Allstate will not have to cover the living expenses of evacuees displaced from their homes by Hurricane Rita if...
News Currents
Feb 5 2006 // Insurers seek bond measures for Texas catastrophe fund Taking a cue from the Scout motto “Be Prepared,” a group of insurers is recommending legislation that would allow for generating funds to help pay for the...
Editor’s Note:
Feb 5 2006 // The insurance industry is expected to pay out a record $56.8 billion for 2005 insured residential and business property losses. Is this the year Texas will be hit by the “big one?” Last year, Louisiana and...
People
Feb 5 2006 // Dianne Morris of Austin, Texas, has been elected president of the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) for 2006-2007. Morris is president of the Association Casualty Insurance Company. She succeeds...
Business Moves
Feb 5 2006 // The Austin, Texas-based National Alliance Research Academy has developed a long-term advisory task force on insurance producer leadership. The Producer Leadership Council, a group of six insurance industry leaders, meets...
Spitzer probe brought bad practices to light, panel says
Feb 5 2006 // That the investigation of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into compensation practices of the nation’s insurance brokers and carriers brought to light the unethical behavior of some bad industry apples was a...
San Antonio Agents to Hold Workers’ Comp Class
Feb 3 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio will hold a workshop on the Texas workers’ compensation on March 9, 2006, in San Antonio. “Workers’ Comp: Navigating the Texas Experience Rating,”...
Tort Reform Promises to be Key Issue in Okla. in 2006
Feb 2 2006 // Dr. Elaine Davis, an obstetrician and gynecologist in the rural northwest Oklahoma community of Enid for nearly 40 years, loved practicing medicine. But at age 68, she thought it was time to ease back on her patient load...
PWIB Texas Adds Taylor as Associate Underwriter/Broker
Feb 1 2006 // Dallas, Texas-based PWIB Texas, a division of Insurance Specialty Group (ISG), announced the addition of Josh Taylor as an associate underwriter/broker. Taylor formerly served as an assistant underwriter with a managing...
Guardian Introduces Destiny Health Plan in Texas
Jan 31 2006 // The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian) announced it has expanded its partnership with Destiny Health to introduce the consumer-directed Destiny Health Plan to employers in Texas. According to the...
