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Texas Deputy Insurance Commissioner Receives Robert Dineen Award from NAIC
Dec 20 2021 // Texas Department of Insurance Chief Deputy Commissioner Doug Slape is a recipient of this year’s Robert Dineen Award, the highest honor for a state regulator bestowed by the National Association of Insurance...
Fatal Texas Plane Crash Likely Clipped Treetops
Dec 20 2021 // A small plane appeared to have clipped treetops before crashing west of Houston, killing both people aboard, federal investigators reported Dec. 17. The Dec. 8 crash of the single-engine Piper PA 28-140 aircraft happened...
New Texas Blackout Rules Won’t Go Into Effect This Winter
Dec 20 2021 // Regulators of Texas’ oil and gas industry that buckled during February’s deadly freeze moved Nov. 30 toward making some producers more prepared for cold weather, but not in time for this winter as the...
Texas Woman Sentenced for Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accidents
Dec 17 2021 // A Texas woman has been sentenced for conspiring to stage automobile accidents in order to defraud insurance trucking companies United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced Genetta Isreal age 53, of Houston, Texas, was...
Texas County Agrees to $5 Million Settlement over Black Motorist’s Death
Dec 16 2021 // A Texas county approved a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit settlement Tuesday with the family of a man who sheriff’s deputies shocked with stun guns after a 2019 chase that was filmed by the real-time police TV...
Texas Jury Awards $301B Settlement in Suit Against Bar
Dec 15 2021 // A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar brought by the family of a woman and her 16-year-old granddaughter who were killed in a car crash...
Texas Vigil Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 13 Injured
Dec 14 2021 // One person was killed and at least 13 others were injured in a drive-by shooting during a candlelight vigil near Houston, a sheriff said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the shooting happened around 6:40 p.m....
AAA: Rear-End Collisions / Fender Benders Top Texas 2021 Auto Insurance Claims
Dec 10 2021 // An American Automobile Association report revealing the top auto insurance claims among Texas members in 2021 shows that rear-end collisions and fender benders accounted for 18% of all claims this year. A rear-end...
Texas Surplus Lines Premiums Hits $685.5 Million in November
Dec 8 2021 // Texas surplus lines premiums amounted to $685.5 million in November, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas. Surplus lines premiums total $8.27 billion year-to-date, a 14.8% increase in year-to-date...
BRP Group Acquires Texas-Based Arcana
Dec 8 2021 // BRP Group, Inc. announced that Millennial Specialty Insurance, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of BRP Group, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Arcana Insurance Services, LP , a Dallas, Texas-based national...
Hub Acquires Texas-Based Cameron Investment Company
Dec 7 2021 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired Cameron Investment Company, Inc., d/b/a Shepard Walton King Insurance Group (Shepard Walton King). Terms of the...
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association Committee Recommends Willis Re for Reinsurance Broker
Dec 7 2021 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s Actuarial & Underwriting Committee met on December 6 to review best and final offers from respondents to the Association’s request for proposals for reinsurance...
New Texas Blackout Rules Won’t Go Into Effect This Winter
Dec 3 2021 // Regulators of Texas’ oil and gas industry that buckled during February’s deadly freeze moved Tuesday, Nov. 30 toward making some producers more prepared for cold weather, but not in time for this winter as the...
Hub Acquires Texas’ Catto & Catto
Dec 2 2021 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the assets of Catto & Catto, Inc. and Catto & Catto Benefits Group, LLC (collectively, Catto & Catto)....
Texas Barge Company to Pay More Than $15 Million Over Oil Spill
Dec 2 2021 // Houston, Texas-based Kirby Inland Marine LP has agreed to pay $15.3 million in damages and assessment costs under the Oil Pollution Act to resolve federal and state claims for injuries to natural resources resulting from...
DOJ, Texas Church Shooting Victims At Odds Over How Much Air Force Owes
Dec 2 2021 // The U.S. Justice Department and survivors of a 2017 Texas church massacre are at odds over how much the Air Force should pay in compensation for failing to flag a conviction that might have prevented the gunman from...
Marsh McLennan Acquires Texas-Based Insource
Dec 1 2021 // Marsh McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired InSource Insurance Group LLC, an independent agency in Texas. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. InSource Insurance Group was formed in 1986 to provide...
Texas Surplus Lines Association Names New Executive Leadership
Nov 30 2021 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association announced the election of Justin Kotrla as its new president following the group’s annual meeting held in Austin earlier in November. Kotrla is senior vice president, Property...
Texas High School Band Bus Crash Kills 3
Nov 22 2021 // The three men killed in a fiery West Texas crash involving a school bus carrying members of a high school band included the band director, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Saturday. Andrews High School band...
Report: Texas Still at Risk of Winter Power Failures
Nov 22 2021 // Texas is still at risk of power blackouts this winter in the event of extreme weather like the catastrophic February storm that buckled the state’s electrical grid and left millions of people without heat for days,...
