Latest Texas Headlines
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Barclay Merges with Texas Associates
Jan 8 2001 // Texas Associates Insurors and The John A. Barclay Agency, both in Austin, have finalized a merger agreement penned in September, with the Barclay Agency officially doing business from Texas Associates’ offices as of...
Minnesota Agents Association Floats Legislative Collective Bargaining Draft; Seeks Input
Jan 8 2001 // In 1900, Texas independent agents approved a plan to unionize. The plan eventually faltered at the national level, but now, more than a century later, Minnesota agents are floating a similar idea. The board of directors of...
Who Owns A Customer’
Jan 8 2001 // The American economic scene is characterized by at least three general trends. There may be more. First, many large businesses are cutting back. Almost every day one reads in the paper that some huge, well-known...
A Legislative Preview for the 77th Session of the Texas Congress
Jan 8 2001 // Now that the presidential election saga has come to a close and a new governor and lieutenant governor are in place, the new guard at the Texas capitol has begun making decisions and appointments for the upcoming 77th...
RUSHMORE TO PURCHASE DALLAS AGENCY
Jan 8 2001 // Rushmore Financial Group Inc. announced its planned acquisition of a group of financial services companies located in Dallas. The companies have signed a letter of intent providing for RFGI to acquire Northstar Financial...
Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Quiroga Named National ACSR of the Year by IIAA
Jan 2 2001 // Armida Quiroga, ACSR, of Aon Risk Services of Texas Inc. in Houston, was recently named National ACSR of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents of America. Quiroga holds the ACSR designation in commercial lines. A...
Hawaii, Texas Insurance Departments Take Action
Dec 8 2000 // The Hawaii Insurance Division has issued a cease and desist order against Darren Larson, the organizer of the insolvent and unauthorized health insurer Hawaii HealthCare Alliance, and owner of Design Benefits Insurance...
Artisan Contractor
Nov 20 2000 // Class Strong Despite construction Defect Litigation, Hardening Market and Slowing economy The building boom across much of the country resulting from nearly 10 years of economic expansion has also resulted in a business...
Liability Coverage for Breaches of Contract
Nov 20 2000 // Knowledgeable people think that liability insurance is for accidents. Standardized liability insurance policies-homeowners, auto and commercial general liability-are worded so that the idea of an accident is at the heart...
Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market’
Nov 20 2000 // Predictions for the 2001 Auto Market? Enforcing Uninsured Driver Laws Should Be A Top Agenda Item What will the Texas auto market look like in 2001? The question is being asked at every professional meeting, on every golf...
Liability Coverage for Breaches of Contract
Nov 20 2000 // Knowledgeable people think that liability insurance is for accidents. Standardized liability insurance policies-homeowners, auto and commercial general liability-are worded so that the idea of an accident is at the heart...
MOLD in Buildings
Nov 20 2000 // Creates New Frontier in Construction Defect Litigation, Definition of Pollution At the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic tort litigation is an...
Texas Insurance Agency Acquired by Compass
Nov 6 2000 // Compass Bancshares and one of Texas’ largest independent insurance agencies have signed a definitive agreement for Compass to acquire the agency. Texas Insurance Agency, with offices in San Antonio, Austin, Uvalde...
Federal Appellate Court Rules Again on Slab Damage Claim
Nov 6 2000 // In 1998, the Texas Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the standard Texas homeowners’ policy covered damage to a home’s foundation resulting from a plumbing leak. The court decided that the standard...
Legal Malpractice Insurance
Nov 6 2000 // There are a huge number of lawyers in Texas. Many of them are not very good. For every lawyer there is probably at least one paralegal. Many of them are as proficient as the lawyers they assist, though usually less...
UNIFORM REGULATIONS SOUGHT
Nov 6 2000 // The Texas Senate Economic Development Committee has approved a staff recommendation for the uniform adoption of state regulations set forth in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act governing the modernization of financial services...
Restraining the Departed’
Oct 23 2000 // When Agents Divorce Their Insurance Company Insurance companies and insurance brokerage houses (employers) use a variety of devices to try to prevent departing agents from competing against them. Sometimes smaller agencies...
The Pioneering Women of TEXAS: How a generation of insurance women was born
Oct 9 2000 // On June 2, 1944 at 9:30 a.m. in the roof garden of the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, the first meeting of the Insurance Women of Texas was opened by call to order by Mrs. Ruth A. Fredde, president of the Insurance Women of...
MARINE AGENT BEACHED
Oct 9 2000 // A Kentucky insurance agent and agency have agreed to a $50,000 penalty for selling Texans millions of dollars worth of boat insurance without the special license required for placing business with Lloyd’s of London...
