All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators are now accepting comments from the industry in an effort to identify rules that need to be updated or changed.The Texas Department of Insurance announced earlier this year it would begin...
Sep 16 2019 // Arch Insurance, Ventus Risk ManagementArch Insurance North America has agreed to acquire Ventus Risk Management, a technology and analytics- driven managing general underwriter that specializes in providing coastal...
Sep 13 2019 // Harris County plans to hire additional environmental personnel to better respond to dangerous chemical plant and refinery fires like ones that occurred this year near the Houston Ship Channel.The Houston Chronicle reports...
Sep 12 2019 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has identified appointees to its Actuarial/Underwriting Committee.The committee has historically developed recommendations to the TWIA Board concerning association rate filings,...
Sep 12 2019 // In its 2019 Wildfire Risk report, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, CoreLogic, shows that across the nation nearly 776,000 homes with an associated reconstruction cost value of...
Sep 12 2019 // Nearly 776,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of more than $221 billion are at extreme risk of wildfire damage, a new report out Thursday shows.The 2019 CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Report examines single-family and...
Sep 11 2019 // The rate of Texans without health insurance rose for the second year in a row, making it once again the most uninsured state in the nation, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.In 2018, 17.7% of...
Sep 11 2019 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA), based in San Antonio, Texas, has added Marian Harlos as vice president of Operations.Harlos brings 38 years of insurance industry experience. She began her career in the...
Sep 10 2019 // Texas authorities say they aren’t aware of any money paid to hackers who used ransomware to target more than 20 communities last month.The Texas Department of Information Resources said in a statement that more than...
Sep 9 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Serna Insurance Agency, based in Humble, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001 by Pete and Martha Serna, Serna Insurance Agency offers private client,...
Sep 6 2019 // Texas insurance regulators are now accepting comments from the industry in an effort to identify rules that need to be updated or changed.The Texas Department of Insurance announced earlier this year it would begin...
Sep 6 2019 // Former NFL athlete turned salesperson, Boone Stutz, has joined the McAllen, Texas, office of Fort Worth-based insurance services firm, Higginbotham, as a commercial property/casualty insurance associate.He brings more than...
Sep 5 2019 // A Rapides Parish, Louisiana, man wanted for livestock theft in Texas has been arrested in Louisiana, according to the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF).Justin G. Thompson of 127 Pilgrim Road,...
Sep 4 2019 // In a letter to stakeholders emphasizing improvements made by the Texas Department of Insurance, Commissioner Kent Sullivan said during the past 10 years there have been significant increases in the numbers of agents and...
Sep 3 2019 // Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has added eight counties to a disaster declaration because of ongoing drought in the state.Abbott’s office on Friday released a proclamation in which Abbott added Brooks, Nueces, Jim Wells and...
Sep 3 2019 // A Houston company has been found guilty and ordered to pay $2.1 million in fines and restitution in the 2014 death of an Alabama man who died in an explosion while working western North Dakota’s oil patch.C&J...
Sep 3 2019 // The ransomware attacks on public entities in Texas, Florida, Maryland, Georgia and elsewhere this year have raised questions not only about paying ransoms but also about the role of insurance in helping these targets get...
Sep 2 2019 // Arch Insurance, Ventus Risk ManagementArch Insurance North America has agreed to acquire Ventus Risk Management, a technology and analytics-driven managing general underwriter that specializes in providing coastal...
Sep 2 2019 // Texas ranked as the state with most annual hail claims — by a wide margin — over the past three years, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).The NICB said in a media release that a review of...