All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2017 // A family-owned insurance agency doesn’t make it to 100 years and counting without doing a lot of things right, and the fact that Garrett Insurance Agency (GIA) in Kerrville, Texas, celebrates a century of service...
Nov 6 2017 // In laying out the interim committee charges for the next legislative session, which will begin in January 2019, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus focused on Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the state.Almost every House...
Nov 3 2017 // A new insurance distribution partnership XPT Group reports it has acquired WSS, a Plano, Texas, wholesale broker and managing general agency (MGA) including Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. and its managing...
Nov 3 2017 // Unmanned aircraft helped a Nacogdoches, Texas, business survey hurricane damage with a degree of speed and safety once thought impossible.The Daily Sentinel reports after Hurricane Harvey battered the Texas coast and...
Nov 3 2017 // Insurance broker and consultant, NFP Corp., has hired Kevin Brown as a managing director in its Austin, Texas, office. He will lead NFP’s retail sales and distribution operation, serving the Central Texas market, and...
Nov 2 2017 // Texas needs $61-plus billion in federal funding just to rebuild public infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Harvey, as well as to cover projects to prevent future flooding.John Sharp, Texas’ Harvey recovery...
Nov 1 2017 // In laying out the interim committee charges for the next legislative session, which will begin in January 2019, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus focused on Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the state.Almost every House...
Oct 31 2017 // The adjusted annual payroll requirement of an employer for the coverage of seasonal workers under the provisions of the Texas Labor Code, Section 406.162 is $55,922, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. This gross...
Oct 27 2017 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida, has acquired Confimex Services Insurance, headquartered in Tomball, Texas.For eight years, Confimex has provided the Tomball and Waller, Texas,...
Oct 26 2017 // Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston has established a Disaster Fraud Task Force in the Eastern District of Texas comprised of local, state, and federal agencies to combat hurricane Harvey related disaster fraud...
Oct 26 2017 // A Massachusetts company and three individuals have been indicted in Texas for organized crime activity related to workers’ compensation fraud, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’...
Oct 25 2017 // The Senate sent President Donald Trump a $36.5 billion hurricane relief bill Tuesday that gives Puerto Rico access to $4.9 billion in low-interest Treasury loans, amid concerns that recovery efforts from the recent...
Oct 24 2017 // The Senate is pushing ahead on a $36.5 billion hurricane relief package that would give Puerto Rico a much-needed infusion of cash.The measure also would replenish rapidly dwindling emergency disaster accounts and provide...
Oct 23 2017 // The U.S. Coast Guard searched for two missing crew members on Saturday from a crude oil-bearing barge that caught fire off the Texas coast.Coast Guard spokeswoman Jennae Steinmiller says that emergency responders are also...
Oct 23 2017 // Larry Pratt has joined SUNUP Insurance Services, headquartered in North Carolina, as the chief agency officer.Pratt will be responsible for leading agency operations for the company. He comes to SUNUP with experience in...
Oct 20 2017 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan has declined to approve a request by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to raise the maximum limits of liability on windstorm and hail policies.TWIA in August filed a...
Oct 19 2017 // It took five weeks for the largest U.S. oil refinery to get back to normal after Hurricane Harvey.It’s taking Port Arthur, Texas, a lot longer. Nearly two months after Harvey inundated Port Arthur, a crucial hub of...
Oct 19 2017 // The mayor of the Gulf Coast community of Rockport says Hurricane Harvey destroyed about a third of the town and that 30 to 35 percent of it will probably never be rebuilt.Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax said during a...
Oct 19 2017 // For state Rep. Lyle Larson, Hurricane Harvey was not only a tragedy but also a wasted opportunity. The San Antonio Republican, who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, estimates that the amount of rain the storm...
Oct 18 2017 // The National Transportation Safety Board has called on the Federal Aviation Administration to remove its medical certification exemption for commercial balloon operators, saying it contributed to a July 30, 2016, balloon...