All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2018 // Investigators in San Marcos, Texas, say 20 people have been indicted for allegedly being part of a Texas crime ring that stole heavy equipment and sold the expensive items for cash or drugs.San Marcos police on July 3...
Jul 3 2018 // Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Programs, a privately held managing general insurance agency, is changing its name to Catapult Insurance Solutions. The name change reflects the organization’s expertise in launching...
Jul 3 2018 // Insurance broker INSURICA, headquartered in Oklahoma City, has acquired employee benefits provider Employer Solutions Group (ESG), based in Austin, Texas.ESG operates throughout Texas under the leadership of Michael...
Jul 2 2018 // A second worker has died from an explosion at a Central Texas hospital that left more than a dozen injured. Police reported the death of 36-year-old Filiberto Morales of Round Rock, Texas, who died June 28 after being...
Jul 2 2018 // Texas prosecutors on June 29 filed sexual assault charges against Larry Nassar and a trainer who worked at his side, expanding the worst abuse scandal in U.S. sports history beyond Michigan while also clearing...
Jul 2 2018 // Dallas-headquartered A-MAX Auto Insurance has appointed Rick Genest as its new vice president of Sales and Operations.Genest, a seasoned insurance executive with over 25 years’ experience in the insurance services...
Jul 2 2018 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation.She succeeds Ryan Brannan, who left the division on May 1....
Jul 2 2018 // There are about 200,000 new claims each year in the Texas workers’ compensation system, representing about 2 percent of covered Texas employees. About 40 percent of those new claims involve claimants who have had at...
Jul 2 2018 // Texas has a hail problem. OK, from an insurance perspective, Texas has a weather problem, period, but that’s another story altogether.Back to hail. On June 6, a hailstorm walloped heavily populated areas of North...
Jul 2 2018 // A Travis County grand jury has indicted a Texas attorney on charges of workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly billing clients for services that were not provided, false billing and tampering with a government...
Jun 29 2018 // Brightway Insurance has opened an office in Redwood City, Calif.The firm this week also opened its first office in Kansas, as well as in Texas. Manny Aguilar is opening Brightway, The Aguilar Agency in Redwood City.Other...
Jun 29 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance is one of 15 employers across the nation to earn the 2018 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the highest honor given for support of National Guard and Reserve...
Jun 28 2018 // Texas-headquartered independent brokerage, RHSB, has added Lane Allen as assistant vice president in its Personal Client Services Practice. Based in Dallas, Allen will be a personal risk advisor providing concierge...
Jun 27 2018 // Hurricane Harvey battered Deven Bhakta’s Port Aransas, Texas, hotel until it was uninhabitable.The Austin American-Statesman reports the Category 4 hurricane’s 130 mph winds blew out windows and stripped parts...
Jun 26 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) honored Harlingen independent insurance agent Bob Shepard with its Paige Eiland Political Action Award at IIAT’s 121st Annual Conference and Trade Show in San...
Jun 26 2018 // A former Texas attorney is headed to prison on charges of insurance fraud and barratry for a scheme involving fraudulent lawsuits filed after hail storms, the state insurance department announced.A Tarrant County judge...
Jun 22 2018 // The entire Texas coastline has been drenched this week with heavy rains resulting in flooding in many areas with several cities reporting rainfall totals in excess of 12 inches.The Insurance Council of Texas is issuing a...
Jun 21 2018 // Federal health officials have ordered the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to pay a $4.3 million fine for failing to secure health records stemming from data breaches. The Houston Chronicle reports the U.S....
Jun 21 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Jeffrey L. Brady of Brady, Chapman, Holland & Associates (BCH) in Houston, to serve as chair for 2018-19.Brady was elected during IIAT’s 121st Annual...
Jun 21 2018 // The University of Texas has agreed to settle a race and sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney.Kearney attorney Jody Mask on Wednesday told The Associated Press that the case...