All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 4 2018 // Terry Frakes has retired from Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., after more than 25 years of service to the company.Frakes was Texas Mutual’s third employee after it was...
May 3 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, which provides workers’ compensation coverage to more than 70,000 business owners and 1.4 million employees, announced it will distribute $280 million in dividends in 2018.Nearly 75...
May 3 2018 // A former member of the U.S. national team on became the latest gymnast to file suit over sexual abuse by imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s, alleging USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the...
May 2 2018 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported that the number of surplus lines policies filed with SLTX after the filing deadline has decreased since the start of the SLTX late filers outreach program.In 2017,...
May 1 2018 // Austin-based electronic insurance payment processing firm, ePayPolicy, on May 2 will begin accepting applications for its ePayPolicy InsurTech Award which aims to recognize the insurance agency that has best leveraged...
Apr 30 2018 // The U.S. House has approved a measure requiring medical checks for commercial hot air balloon pilots in an effort to avoid a re-occurrence of a 2016 crash that killed 16 people in Texas.The House voted Friday on a...
Apr 30 2018 // Higginbotham and Butler Carson Tate Insurance have merged operations in Lubbock, Texas.This is Higginbotham’s second office in Lubbock, having entered the market in 2015 when it merged with another locally managed...
Apr 27 2018 // Hurricane Harvey’s epic rain in August 2017 convinced many residents and elected officials in Southeast Texas that the drastic flooding required drastic drainage solutions.The Galveston County Daily News reports one...
Apr 27 2018 // A North Texas-based insurance agency that operates nationally via a franchise model will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange when its expected initial public offering (IPO) goes through on April 27.Goosehead Insurance,...
Apr 26 2018 // A report found that a recent explosion and fire at a refinery along Texas’ Gulf Coast released four types of unauthorized contaminants into the air.The Daily News reports that Valero Energy estimates its Texas City...
Apr 25 2018 // An attorney in Grand Prairie, Texas, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $26,572,458.93 in restitution for his role in a workers’ compensation fraud scheme.Federal prosecutors say...
Apr 24 2018 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association will soon begin its annual program designed to move policies out of the residual market for wind and hail along the Texas coast.This will be the third round for the Assumption...
Apr 24 2018 // When Hurricane Irma reached Florida’s Big Pine Key in September, it caused the floor of Terry and Sharon Baron’s cream-colored mobile home to collapse. On Marathon Key, twenty miles north, the winds lifted...
Apr 19 2018 // The deadlines for a Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) claimant to demand appraisal of a claim for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey have been extended, the Texas Department of Insurance reports.An extension of...
Apr 19 2018 // Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP has acquired Houston-based Texas Printers Insurance Agency (TPIA).TPIA specializes in risk management and property/casualty insurance. The agency also offers employee benefits for...
Apr 18 2018 // The parents of two children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 sued Alex Jones, the host of InfoWars, who had derided the shooting as fake and possibly staged by the government.Leonard Pozner and Veronique De...
Apr 17 2018 // April 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the fertilizer plant explosion that claimed 15 lives in the town of West, Texas. Despite a lengthy investigation by state and federal officials, no one has been arrested and charged...
Apr 17 2018 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Southeast Division has awarded $473,000 in community grants to 24 nonprofit organizations that champion the causes of children at risk, education and military...
Apr 16 2018 // Strong winds are fueling more than two dozen wildfires burning across Oklahoma and Texas.Authorities say one blaze in western Oklahoma is estimated to be nearly 40 miles across at its widest point. Oklahoma Forestry...
Apr 16 2018 // A Pflugerville, Texas, landscape company pleaded guilty March 21 to misrepresenting its payroll so it could pay less for workers’ compensation coverage, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.Jammers...