Latest Texas Headlines
All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement 2005-04 of Emergency Rules Available Online
Jan 18 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2005-04 containing emergency rules recently adopted by the Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’...
SIIS and TCJL to Hold Forum for Texas Higher Court Candidates
Jan 18 2006 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service and the Texas Civil Justice League announced a candidate forum, Feb. 15, 2006, that will feature candidates seeking seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Third Court of...
National Alliance Academy Forms Producer Leadership Council
Jan 17 2006 // The Austin, Texas-based National Alliance Research Academy announced it has developed a long-term advisory task force on insurance producer leadership. The group’s distinct purpose is to share information in order to...
Texas Supreme Court to Reconsider Decision in Insurance Case
Jan 17 2006 // On Jan. 6, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to rehear an insurance case watched closely by policyholders nationwide. In Excess Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London v. Frank’s Casing Crew & Rental Tools Inc., the...
Despite Hurricanes, Fewer Insurers Failed in 2005, Reports Weiss Ratings
Jan 17 2006 // Despite mounting losses from another devastating hurricane season, property and casualty insurance company failures declined 44 percent, dropping from 16 to nine, while solid economic growth resulted in no bank closures in...
Teen Suspect Charged with Setting Fires in East Texas
Jan 13 2006 // An 18-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with two arson fires in Bowie County, Texas. Randal Kight was questioned in connection with a series of wildland fires that have plagued the town of Maud, southwest of...
PIA Texas to Take 2006 Convention on a Cruise
Jan 11 2006 // Texas Insurance Professionals (PIA Texas) announced it has planned a cruise for its 2006 Convention. The convention will be held during the Memorial Day weekend, May 25-29, which the association said will allow small...
Unlicensed Texas Health Care Provider Sentenced in Fraud Scheme
Jan 10 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, recently secured a criminal conviction against Don A. Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. TDI said Bauer...
Arson Alleged in Texas Wildfires
Jan 10 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has directed the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the State Fire Marshal’s office of the Texas Department of Insurance and the Texas Forest Service to...
Duncan, Fraser & Bridges Acquires Amarillo, Texas-based Agency
Jan 9 2006 // Duncan, Fraser & Bridges Insurance Agency Inc., a member of Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA), announced it has purchased Amarillo, Texas-based independent insurance agency, Edmond, Deaton & Stephens....
New Fires Flare in Texas; Charges Filed in Okla.
Jan 6 2006 // Six new wildfires flared up in Texas on Jan. 5 and fire fighting crews were battling about two dozen smaller fires in Oklahoma, the Dallas Morning News reported. In Texas, houses and other structures were threatened by...
Gov. Perry to Headline IIAT’s Joe Vincent Management Seminar
Jan 5 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry will deliver a special luncheon address to nearly 400 of the state’s most progressive and influential independent insurance agency principals and managers when they gather for the Independent...
Suspected Arson Fire Contained in Small Northeastern Okla. Town
Jan 5 2006 // Firefighters contained a grass fire that destroyed an abandoned schoolhouse and a home in Shamrock, a small northeastern Oklahoma town, while officials in Texas and New Mexico also worked to keep fires under control amid...
Hallmark Acquires Aerospace Holdings
Jan 4 2006 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC. According to Hallmark, Aerospace Holdings, through Aerospace Insurance Managers Inc....
American National Bank Acquires Dallas-based Independent Agency Sleeper, Sewell
Jan 4 2006 // The American National Bank of Texas of Terrell, Texas, has acquired Dallas-based insurance agency Sleeper, Sewell & Company. Terms of the transaction were not announced. Led by President and CEO Robert A. Hulsey,...
Texas Governor Visits Fire-Plagued Towns; 3,200 Evacuated
Jan 3 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Jan. 2 traveled to Nacona and Ringgold, two towns in fire-ravaged Montague County where 3,200 residents were evacuated to safety yesterday. Perry met with local officials and took a helicopter tour...
FEMA Authorizes Millions to Assist Texas, Okla., N.M. Fight Fires
Jan 3 2006 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this week authorized the use of federal funds from the Nation’s Disaster Relief Fund to help Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico...
Okla., Texas Still Plagued by Wildfires
Jan 2 2006 // Wildfires continued to burn in Texas and Oklahoma on New Year’s Day, fueled by record-high temperatures, high winds and significant lack of rainfall, sweeping across thousands of acres and destroying homes along the...
The industry goes to school
Jan 2 2006 // More universities that offer insurance degrees In this second installment in a series, Insurance Journal profiled five universities that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in insurance. More universities will be...
People & Places
Jan 2 2006 // Brent Jenkins Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined...
