Latest Texas Headlines
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HOUSTON MAN INDICTED:
Aug 23 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Travis County’s 147th District Court grand jury indicted Henry Prince of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The insurer said Prince allegedly...
The Denial is in the Details: Description of the Premises Defines Coverage
Aug 23 2004 // Commercial property issues lead to surprisingly few reported opinions. While they may not result in opinions, many disputes arise over policy interpretation, stemming from the description of the insured premises. Under the...
Homeowners in Hurricane Paths Hit with High Insurance Costs
Aug 23 2004 // Retired police officers Ed and Nancy McCue are thinking about leaving their dream home near the shores of Biscayne Bay because it’s in a prime area for hurricanes. It’s not the storm threat itself that’s...
People and Places
Aug 23 2004 // Chantelle Burton Chantelle Burton joined Heath Insurance Brokers in the company’s Houston office as a professional and financial services broker. Prior to joining Heath, Burton was an associate director at Myron...
Jackson Joins Western Security Surplus’ Texas Office
Aug 19 2004 // Kyle Stevens, vice president, branch manager of the Dallas branch office of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers, announced the recent new hiring of Khlanie Jackson. Jackson joins the WSS Underwriting Department as...
HIA’s TGI Comp Purchasing Group Exceeds Expectations
Aug 18 2004 // Response to Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency’s (HIA) newly created Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group has exceeded all expectations, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the group’s...
SIIS to Hold Fall Conference in Fort Worth
Aug 18 2004 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service announced that “Legislation, Regulation and Education” is the theme of its 51st Annual Fall Conference, to be held Sept. 19-20, 2004, at the Doral Tesoro Hotel in Fort...
Central Texas CPCU Chapter Joins ‘Circle Of Excellence’
Aug 17 2004 // The Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) announced it has earned the Society’s Gold “Circle of Excellence” for outstanding achievement during the 2003-2004...
Allstate to Pay $60M in Refunds to Texas Homeowners
Aug 17 2004 // Allstate Texas Lloyds, an affiliate of the Allstate Corporation will issue refunds of 8.75 percent of the premium paid by its Texas home insurance customers for policies with effective dates from Sept. 7, 2003, through...
Court Says Texas Providers, Carriers Must Pay IRO Fees in Medical Necessity Disputes
Aug 17 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported that the Third Court of Appeals in Austin has upheld the constitutionality of TWCC’s rules regarding fees to be paid to Independent Review Organizations...
Texas Mutual Web Site is a Three-Peat Winner
Aug 17 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that for the third consecutive year its Web site, www.texasmutual.com, took first place in an international communications competition hosted by the American Association of State...
Texas Jury Awards $24.7 Million in Drunk Driving Case
Aug 13 2004 // A Harris County, Texas jury awarded $24.7 million to the family of a woman who died in a crash with a drunken driver four years ago, the Associated Press reported. The civil jury found Jeffrey Lamont Tate responsible for...
Amarillo Storm Losses Total $175 Million
Aug 12 2004 // The storm that struck the western portion of Amarillo on June 21 caused $175 million in insured losses making it the sixth costliest wind and hailstorm in Texas history, according to the Insurance Council of...
TWCC, IWCF to Hold 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference
Aug 11 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. are the sponsors of the 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference. The...
Caliber Collision Centers Appoints Parker
Aug 10 2004 // Caliber Collision Centers, an operator of collision repair facilities in California and Texas, has named Tresa Parker as its Director of Client Services for Texas Operations, a new position designed to help strengthen new...
Vista Insurance Partners Appoints Bishop as Senior Broker/Underwriter
Aug 10 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, a San Antonio, Texas-based wholesale insurance broker, announced the appointment of Margie Bishop as senior broker/underwriter. Bishop will work with current and new Vista agents to develop new...
PERRY TAKES AIM AT FRAUD:
Aug 9 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently issued a directive to all state agencies to establish wide-ranging efforts to detect and eliminate fraud in government programs. “Fraud increases the price employers pay for...
Texas Lt. Gov. Calls for Study on Workers’ Comp Pricing
Aug 6 2004 // On the heels of new numbers from the Texas Department of Insurance showing that workers’ compensation insurance carriers are charging higher premiums even though claim costs are decreasing, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...
Miss. Nominee Chosen as 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year
Aug 5 2004 // Ruth Phillips, CISR, CPIW, of the Morrell Agency Inc., in Magnolia, Mississippi, was awarded the 2004 National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award. The Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives (CISR) and the...
Texas Assoc. of Business Backs Revamp of Workers’ Comp System
Aug 4 2004 // The Texas Association of Business (TAB) is calling for major organizational reform of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, saying the agency’s current leadership structure undermines its ability to...
