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Texas Auto Insurance Plan Names New General Manager

Feb 23 2006 // Cathleen C. Beavers has been named general manager of Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association, according to TAIPA Chairman Brad Duelks. Previously, Beavers was residual market business advisor for USAA in San Antonio...

Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner Approves 11 Firms to Self-Insure

Feb 23 2006 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently approved the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure covering a one-year period for 11 private employers. Texas law allows certain...

Texas Return-To-Work Rules Now Available Online

Feb 23 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-01 containing Return-to-Work rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation on Feb. 2, 2006, is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of...

Farmers Unveils New Texas Family Home Policy

Feb 22 2006 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies reported the introduction of a new homeowner’s insurance policy, called “Texas Family Home Policy.” This new policy offers more coverage choices, new discounts,...

First Cardinal Forms The CompPAC Trust of Texas

Feb 22 2006 // First Cardinal of Texas Ltd. announced the merger of two of its largest workers’ compensation trusts into a single entity, CompPAC Trust of Texas, effective Jan.1, 2006. The CompPAC Trust of Texas combines the...

Texas Combined Agents Produce More Than $326M in 2005

Feb 21 2006 // Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced it achieved over $326 million in combined property and casualty premiums for 2005 when the board of members recently convened. The 33 member agencies...

The facts about credit information and insurance

Feb 20 2006 // The use of credit history, one of many underwriting tools, is not a new concept and one that has received strict scrutiny from insurance regulators and consumer advocates around the country. Some insurers have used...

THREE TEXAS AGENCIES MAKE ’50 BEST COMPANIES’ LIST

Feb 20 2006 // Three independent insurance agencies were among the “50 Best companies to work for in Texas” honored at a luncheon hosted by the Texas Assosiation of Business, Texas Monthly magazine and the Society for Human...

New Markets

Feb 20 2006 // Enhanced Partial Loss Settlement Nuts & Bolts: National Lloyds Insurance Company and American Summit Insurance Company have a new enhanced partial loss endorsement for the HO-8 homeowners form. It provides replacement...

Law repealing surplus lines bond in effect

Feb 20 2006 // A law eliminating the surplus lines bond that Texas surplus agents formerly had to carry became effective Jan. 1, 2006, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) has reported. The Texas Legislature in 2005 passed...

Agents allege red-lining by ANPAC in Texas court case

Feb 20 2006 // A group of agents recently won a round in a Texas court in their fight to have documents released. Deemed “trade secrets” by American National Property & Casualty Co., they were made available to the...

News Briefs

Feb 19 2006 // Three Texas agencies make ’50 Best Companies’ list Three independent insurance agencies were among the “50 Best Companies to Work for in Texas” honored at a luncheon hosted by the Texas Association...

New Markets

Feb 19 2006 // New Markets Enhanced Partial Loss Settlement Nuts & Bolts: National Lloyds Insurance Company and American Summit Insurance Company have a new enhanced partial loss endorsement for the HO-8 homeowners form. It provides...

Feb 19 2006 // Catastrophe funding big on the radar screen for 2006 Some 60 to 70 percent of the estimated $4.7 billion in insured losses caused by Hurricane Rita in September 2005 occurred in Texas. The state experienced 188,000 claims,...

News Currents

Feb 19 2006 // Agents allege red-lining by ANPAC in Texas court case A group of agents recently won a round in a Texas court in their fight to have documents released. Deemed “trade secrets” by American National Property...

Hallmark, Texas General Agency

Feb 19 2006 // Hallmark, Texas General Agency Hallmark Financial Services Inc. completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Texas General Agency Inc. and certain affiliates. TGA is a managing general agency involved in the marketing...

Pair Sentenced in Texas in Unlicensed Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme

Feb 16 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Special Prosecutor, working in conjunction with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, secured a criminal conviction against David Alton Brabandt and Barbara Del Aguila of...

Texas Schools Group Earns $34K Dividend from Texas Mutual

Feb 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $34,280 purchasing group dividend for the Texas Schools Group (TSG). The TSG group dividend is separate from the approximately $50 million in individual dividends that Texas...

André Juneau, Past President of IIAT, Dead at 47

Feb 15 2006 // André P. Juneau, senior vice president of Nieman Hanks Puryear, a division of Frost Insurance Agency Inc., Austin, and former president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas, died early Feb. 14 in Austin. He was...

Central Texas All Industry Day to Take Place March 1

Feb 14 2006 // The Central Texas Chapter of CPCU Society and the Austin Association of Insurance Professionals will host the 2006 All Insurance Industry Day March 1 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin. The schedule of events...