All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2019 // Giddings, Texas-based independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, appointed Joe Casanova as insurance sales producer for the Central Texas region.Casanova has worked in the insurance industry for nearly a decade,...
Jun 3 2019 // A man sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud must repay Texas Mutual Insurance Co. more than $26,000, a Travis County district court said.According to Texas Mutual, Ricky Allen Martinez of Sugar Land, Texas,...
Jun 3 2019 // Dallas-based CoVerica has expanded its presence in the medical professions arena with the acquisition of Agape Healthcare Partners L.P., an independent insurance agency headquartered in North Texas. Agape specializes in...
Jun 3 2019 // INSURICA has acquired First Texas Insurance Services, based in Arlington, Texas.Trey Dacy and Bob Walch, principals at First Texas Insurance Services, and their team will join INSURICA. A third partner, Gary McNeil, along...
Jun 3 2019 // A young man and a teenage boy have filed a lawsuit accusing the staff at a Texas ranch for at-risk youth of not protecting them from sexual abuse by older residents, an advocate for child abuse victims says.In recent...
Jun 3 2019 // Memo to insurance agency owners seeking to onboard new employees: Expect to pay more, offer more and train more.Those trying to hire know that already. “What we’re seeing in particular in Texas, and I imagine...
Jun 3 2019 // Plumbers in Texas will no longer be subject to state regulations after lawmakers this week flushed the state plumbing code and the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, a state agency that employed dozens and generated...
Jun 3 2019 // Market Detail: Gladius Insurance Services LLC (www.gladiusins.com) covers packages for parcel delivery companies (Amazon type operations). Coverage available includes: general liability, commercial auto, cargo and...
Jun 3 2019 // Bermuda-based specialty insurer Sompo International Holdings Ltd. has hired Steven E. Grippo as senior vice president, where he will lead the unit’s U.S. Architects & Engineers practice. Grippo brings to Sompo...
Jun 3 2019 // By Stephanie K. JonesTexas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at a May 24, 2019, meeting of its board of directors to withdraw a 10% rate increase filed last year that was...
May 31 2019 // Forecasters say at least two tornadoes hit parts of north and east Texas in a storm system that damaged dozens of homes and left one person hurt. The National Weather Service has confirmed twisters struck Wednesday in the...
May 31 2019 // Some 7.3 million U.S. homes with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion are at risk from storm surge, Irvine, California-based data analytics provider CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report, issued days...
May 29 2019 // Boston-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies has acquired MainStreet Consulting Group, a brokerage headquartered in Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
May 29 2019 // Federal safety officials have levied more than a half a million dollars in penalties against a Texas rubber products company for multiple workplace safety violations.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...
May 28 2019 // Agents and brokers can now input policy limit information directly into the Surplus Line Stamping Office of Texas’ (SLTX’s) Electronic Filing System (EFS).A new field has been added to the system to allow input...
May 28 2019 // Housing sales in Texas would drop, gasoline prices would increase and the state would lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output if another major storm struck an unprotected coastline, according to a new...
May 28 2019 // Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at a May 24, 2019, meeting of its board of directors to withdraw a 10% rate increase filed last year that was subsequently put on...
May 24 2019 // The chief U.S. aviation regulator said he was very encouraged by a one-day discussion with his counterparts from around the world on the steps needed to return Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max jetliner to service,...
May 23 2019 // A year ago, it took months for insurance agents and adjusters to get continuing education transcripts, course credit and other information from the Texas Department of Insurance. Today, it takes about two weeks, according...
May 23 2019 // Three Texas environmental groups have notified Valero Energy Corp. of plans to file a lawsuit under the U.S. Clean Air Act for pollution at the company’s Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, the organizations...