All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2018 // Former Texas insurance agent Chia Wang has been indicted for an allegedly defrauding an elderly woman in an insurance scam.Wang is facing up to 99 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine after a grand jury in Marion...
Dec 17 2018 // Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions of U.S. residents, drawing sharp condemnation from some medical professionals and a vow for action by...
Dec 17 2018 // Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why.She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a...
Dec 17 2018 // How to process cancer-related workers’ compensation claims filed by firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) is developing into an emerging issue, Texas workers’ compensation system regulators...
Dec 17 2018 // Reliance Partners, which specializes in commercial insurance, added Brandon Richards as chief sales officer and opened a new office in Austin, Texas.Richards is a veteran insurance professional with more than 17 years in...
Dec 14 2018 // Safety National proudly supports Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis, an organization that has been helping children with physical and developmental disabilities for more than 80 years. In 2018, Safety...
Dec 14 2018 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a” of Texas Farm Bureau...
Dec 14 2018 // Payments made by FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for insured losses from flooding in central Texas in mid-October have exceeded $22 million and could exceed $30 million when all claims have been filed...
Dec 14 2018 // A commission convened by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to focus on rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey issued a report on Dec. 13 saying the state should take a series of steps to prepare for the next big storm, including improving...
Dec 13 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts in December to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank located in Austin, Texas. At the IIAA Christmas...
Dec 12 2018 // The Nitsche Group, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Giddings, Texas, has been inducted into the Hall of Fame during this year’s Family Business of the Year Awards Program hosted by Baylor...
Dec 12 2018 // Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has paid more than $3 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 4,000 newer policyholder owners across the state.This payout is the...
Dec 11 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired RiskPro Global Partners, a full-service property/casualty and employee benefits firm headquartered in Dallas,...
Dec 10 2018 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Texas decreased from 2014 to 2016 for claims with more than seven days of lost time, evaluated as of 2017, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation...
Dec 10 2018 // The cost to curtail damaging flooding across Texas over the next 10 years is more than $31.5 billion and state officials are urging lawmakers to adopt legislation meant to end a cycle of “repairing and...
Dec 7 2018 // Brown & Brown of Kentucky Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all assets of Arlington, Texas-based Dealer Associates Inc. (DAI), the company reported.Since 1990, DAI has provided a...
Dec 7 2018 // How to process cancer-related workers’ compensation claims filed by firefighters’ and emergency medical technicians’ (EMTs) is developing into an emerging issue, Texas workers’ compensation system...
Dec 6 2018 // Texas is considering new restrictions on how shale explorers dispose of wastewater from oil drilling as earthquakes rattle the largest oil-producing American state.The new rules would target how much and at what pressure...
Dec 5 2018 // At the end of November, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) had recorded $5.57 billion in Texas surplus lines premium, exceeding the $5.46 billion total reported for the full-year of 2017.This represents a...
Dec 5 2018 // A bus driver with “acute sleep deficit” failed to stay in his lane and caused his vehicle to careen out of control, resulting in a wreck that killed nine people and injured nearly 40 others in 2016, federal...