Latest Texas Headlines
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TCAIS Publishes Insurance 101 Booklet for Texas
Jan 23 2003 // The Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions (TCAIS) announced the release of a timely and informative booklet titled: “Insurance 101: A guide to understanding auto and home insurance in the Lone Star...
Texas Watch Launches Insurance Reform Web Site
Jan 22 2003 // The consumer group Texas Watch unveiled a new Web site designed to help consumers participate in the legislative debate on insurance reform. Through the Web site at www.fixtexasinsurance.org, the group will provide...
NAII Requests Texas Supreme Court Halt Expansion of Auto Coverage
Jan 21 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) and Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) have filed an amicus brief asking the Texas Supreme Court to review and reverse a 9th Texas Court of...
TWCC To Hold Jan. 22 Public Meeting
Jan 21 2003 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission will hold a scheduled public meeting in Austin at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22. Included on the agenda are: 1. Discussion, consideration and possible action on re-adoption of rules...
Texas Mutual Launches New Pharmacy Program
Jan 20 2003 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced the initiation of a new Pharmacy Benefit Manager program. The program should help offset the rising costs of health care in the Texas...
Home State County Mutual’s ‘Bpi’ Affirmed
Jan 17 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its “Bpi” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Home State County Mutual Insurance Co., which has its headquarters in Waco, Texas An...
Commissioner Montemayor Looking at Another Term
Jan 14 2003 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced he will reappoint Jose Montemayor to a new two-year term as the state’s Commissioner of Insurance. Montemayor has served as commissioner since 1999, overseeing the Texas Department of...
To Catch a Thief-State DOI’s Work Hard to Keep Agents in Line
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Med-Mal Mayhem
Jan 13 2003 // Will medical malpractice problems initiate the industry’s crisis for 2003 in the way that mold mania swept Texas and many other states in 2002, creating havoc in the homeowners insurance market? If you read the...
Montemayor Sends Biennial Report, Recommendations to Lawmakers
Jan 13 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor recently submitted the Biennial Report, required under Section 32.022 of the Insurance Code, to Texas legislators suggesting needed changes in laws relating to insurance...
INSURERS ASKED TO JUSTIFY RATES
Jan 13 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) sent letters in December to the top 10 companies writing homeowners insurance in Texas asking them to voluntarily file their rates by January 2, 2003. TDI also requested that the...
PELLETS, NOT CRASH=KNEE PAIN
Jan 13 2003 // An investigation by Texas Mutual Insurance Co. revealed a man employed to pick up roadside trash has trouble with his knee because of the shotgun pellets embedded in it, not because of an accident in which a woman’s...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
To Catch a Thief-State DOI’s Work Hard to Keep Agents in Line
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year, is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Loss in Progress, or Just an Accident Waiting to Happen’
Jan 13 2003 // While a number of significant insurance decisions, in Texas and nationwide, have commanded recent attention, there are also some lesser acclaimed opinions worthy of note. In particular, Texas courts continue to grapple...
Texas Launches FAIR Plan for Homeowners Market
Jan 10 2003 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor announced the official launch of the Texas FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) Plan Association’s homeowners insurance market-of-last-resort in Texas. As of Jan....
Book Says Med-Mal Legislation Discriminates
Jan 10 2003 // A new book on medical malpractice in Texas, by Fort Worth attorney Dan Barrett, claims Republicans are discriminating against the elderly and the poor in bills to be considered in the upcoming legislative...
CenTex CPCU Takes Home the Gold
Jan 10 2003 // The Central Texas Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) announced it has earned the Society’s Gold Circle of Excellence Award and CPD Excellence Award for outstanding achievements...
Hearing on TWCC 2002 Medical Fee Guideline Postponed
Jan 9 2003 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that on Jan. 6, Travis County Judge John Dietz delayed the hearing on the 2002 Medical Fee Guideline (MFG) until further notice. In August 2002 Judge Dietz issued...
