All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2019 // Announcing total estimated catastrophe losses for June, Allstate Corporation attributed 60 percent of those losses to four severe wind and hail weather events that primarily impacted Texas.Allstate estimated catastrophe...
Jul 17 2019 // A lawsuit has been filed by the State of Texas seeking to stop Georgia-based Aliera Healthcare from selling health insurance in the state and engaging in the business of insurance without a license, the Texas Department of...
Jul 17 2019 // On July 11, the Insurance Council of Texas’ (ICT’s) 4th Annual Speed Interview and Network Session connected students from universities across Texas with 23 insurance companies and agencies.“The speed...
Jul 16 2019 // Surplus lines premium in Texas has increased to $3.48 billion at the 2019 mid-year point, up 13.4% over 2018’s mid-year total of $3.06 billion, according to data reported to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas...
Jul 15 2019 // The Insurance Council of Texas has presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award to Verle Petri, a long time insurance executive and expert on Texas insurance regulation and policy.ICT honored Petri with the award during the...
Jul 15 2019 // Texas lawmakers in the recent legislative session passed a bill addressing surprise medical bills injured employees have received after being treated at federal military facilities.Senate Bill 935 requires workers’...
Jul 15 2019 // Insurance companies should take note of a recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Texas that closes a “trapdoor” pretrial discovery gambit by plaintiffs’ lawyers that exposed defendants to sanctions for...
Jul 12 2019 // If a drunken motorist collides with another vehicle, can the incident truly be called an accident?A federal judge in Texas said “no” and dismissed a plaintiff’s lawsuit seeking punitive damages from...
Jul 12 2019 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired BluePeak Advisors LLC, headquartered in Bartonville, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With employees operating across the United States, BluePeak Advisors...
Jul 11 2019 // Susan Wollenberg has been selected to serve as chief financial officer for Windhaven Insurance and The Hearth Insurance Group, according to Jimmy E. Whited, CEO of the Florida-based companies.Wollenberg will be responsible...
Jul 10 2019 // Texas-based managing general agency and surplus lines broker, LP Risk, has acquired the assets and operations of Houston Surplus Lines, an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage. Houston Surplus Lines team will...
Jul 10 2019 // Austin, TX, July 10, 2019 – Each year, a group of exceptional insurance professionals are chosen by The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research to represent their states and compete to become the...
Jul 10 2019 // The U.S. appeals court judges tasked with deciding the fate of the hot potato known as Obamacare had some choice words Tuesday for Congress and the Trump administration.“Why does Congress want the judiciary to be a...
Jul 9 2019 // The organization that keeps track of excess and surplus policies sold in Texas says the number of E&S flood insurance policies in place in the state’s coastal counties declined after Hurricane Harvey hit in...
Jul 8 2019 // The fate of Obamacare, the law that President Donald Trump campaigned on repealing and replacing, could hinge on several technical points of law as a federal appeals court prepares to decide whether it’s...
Jul 8 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Ronda Brown, with Texas Associates Insurors in Austin, Account Manager of the Year.This award is given annually to an account manager in Texas who exemplifies...
Jul 3 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Wes Kurtz of Pathfinder/LL&D in Houston as its André P. Juneau ELITExan of the Year.This award is given annually to a young insurance professional in Texas...
Jul 3 2019 // Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport.Two crew members and eight passengers died when...
Jul 2 2019 // Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a specialty marine and offshore energy company and a part of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), is partnering with Signal Mutual on a workers’ compensation program for waterfront employers...
Jul 1 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Frank Swingle Jr., founder and CEO of Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas, the 2019 Drex Foreman Award winner at IIAT’s Insurcon in Grapevine on June...