All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2018 // Some Texas coastal towns where Hurricane Harvey made landfall are working to restore tourism and other economic attractions nearly five months after the storm.Hundreds of businesses in Rockport and Fulton are now open amid...
Jan 17 2018 // The city of West, Texas, and several other plaintiffs have reached settlements and partial settlements of claims stemming from a deadly explosion in the central Texas town.An April 13, 2013, blaze heated up 30 tons of...
Jan 16 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) is accepting comments through Feb. 20 on a compounded drug rule that was first proposed in June 2017.On June 16, 2017, DWC...
Jan 12 2018 // Fifty Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) employees are supporting the company’s efforts to plant 80,000 trees for the third consecutive year through a two-day project near Austin, Texas.Employees have finished...
Jan 11 2018 // A new study suggests if the Houston area continues to boom for 60 years and sea levels rise, a direct hit to Galveston from a massive hurricane could destroy $31.8 billion worth of homes, the Houston Chronicle...
Jan 9 2018 // Fort Worth, Texas-based retail insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Independent Insurance Agents of Plainview (IIAP) have merged operations.With the addition of IIAP in Plainview, Higginbotham now has 27 offices in Texas....
Jan 8 2018 // Texas Department of Insurance fraud investigations in 2017 resulted in 135 suspects referred for prosecution, 113 indictments, and $2.3 million in court-ordered restitution for victims.TDI described some of the most...
Jan 8 2018 // Houston, Texas-based wholesale insurance brokerage, M. D. Jensvold Co. Inc., has changed its name to LP Risk, the firm’s owner, Landon Parnell, announced.This new name reflects the company’s evolving focus,...
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry DaysJan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, Calif.California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA)Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.netThe 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance ConferenceJan 15-19...
Jan 8 2018 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president.Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly DFB...
Jan 8 2018 // More Texas businesses are providing workers’ compensation insurance as the cost of coverage continues to decline, according to the Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation...
Jan 5 2018 // The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office says a dozen fires blamed on fireworks in unincorporated areas of Texas’ most populous county over New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day caused about $1.2 million...
Jan 4 2018 // Starr Surplus Lines Insurance Co. has become the first domestic surplus lines insurer (DSLI) in Texas, effective Jan. 1, 2018, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reported.The company has been approved to...
Jan 3 2018 // Surplus lines premium in Texas increased to $5.46 billion in 2017, up from $5.12 billion in 2016, according to data collected by the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX).These numbers represent a 6.5 percent...
Jan 2 2018 // Boca Raton, Florida-based Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has acquired Dash Insurance Agency, headquartered in Houston, Texas.Dash Insurance Agency provides full auto and liability insurance products and services...
Dec 29 2017 // Three people are dead and two others injured after a vehicle collided with a wild hog in Southwest Texas.The accident happened on a rural road near Uvalde, about 110 miles southwest of San Antonio. Texas Department of...
Dec 29 2017 // Among the most read news stories in Insurance Journal’s South Central region during 2017 concerned Hurricane Harvey and Texas hailstorm (aka natural catastrophe insurance claims) legislation.The insurance industry in...
Dec 28 2017 // Several businesses have sustained damage in a four-alarm fire that struck a historic downtown square in North Texas.The fire in downtown Denton appears to have begun early Tuesday in a building that houses a market selling...
Dec 22 2017 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has awarded academic scholarships to two students at Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston and three students at Huston-Tillotson University (H-T) students in Austin. ICT honored...
Dec 21 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has released the 2017 Health Care Provider Performance Based Oversight (PBO) assessment results.Health care providers were assessed on their...