All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 29 2016 // Kenneth and Natasha Briggs and their four children had avoided the area near the Bush Turnpike and Interstate 30 in spite of, and because of, what it had done to form their family.This week, however, Natasha sat front and...
Dec 29 2016 // An overwhelming majority of surplus lines policies are filed on time in Texas, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas.SLTX is required by statute to file an Annual Late Filers report with the Texas...
Dec 22 2016 // Projections show that the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas is on track to surpass fourth quarter premium totals set in the past two years, according to data prepared by the office.The amount of surplus lines filings...
Dec 22 2016 // The H-E-B grocery store chain has recalled some bulk and packaged raw shelled pistachios.San Antonio-based H-E-B said this week there’s a potential that the pistachios could be contaminated with salmonella. There are...
Dec 22 2016 // No South Central state had the best score and none had the worst in a report recently released by a conservative-leaning research organization that annually assesses the effectiveness states’ insurance regulatory...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 19 2016 // The percentage of companies that don’t participate in the Texas workers’ compensation system has fallen to the lowest level since 1993, the agency that regulates this line of insurance in the state has...
Dec 19 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a mandatory annual data call to all insurance companies writing private passenger nonfleet automobile, homeowners multiple peril, workers’ compensation, commercial fire...
Dec 19 2016 // A chemical leak from an asphalt plant that led Corpus Christi officials to warn its 300,000 residents not to drink the water last week was apparently reported a week earlier, according to an email from a state...
Dec 19 2016 // If a Dec. 1, 2016, hearing is any indication, Texas lawmakers will be encouraged in the coming legislative session to take up what the property/casualty insurance industry says is a problematic trend following severe...
Dec 19 2016 // State Auto’s Western Region added Bob McCarty as underwriting manager for the Central/South Texas area. He is based in Austin.McCarty has 30 years of insurance and management experience. He began his career in...
Dec 19 2016 // The pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in Texas in July took medications that should have precluded him from flying, medical experts said at a federal hearing on Dec. 9.Alfred “Skip” Nichols was killed...
Dec 19 2016 // If a Dec. 1, 2016, hearing is any indication, Texas lawmakers will likely be encouraged in the coming legislative session to take up what the property/casualty insurance industry says is a problematic trend following...
Dec 19 2016 // During their annual convention in March, more than 50 members of NetVU (the Network of Vertafore Users) devoted a day to serving at the San Antonio Food Bank. Volunteers sorted 12,000 pounds of food, enough for 10,000...
Dec 19 2016 // Many property/casualty insurance carriers have focused their charitable efforts on veterans, and they’ve done so for a number of good reasons.One important reason for adopting veterans causes was explained by Glenn...
Dec 16 2016 // Recognizing the complex nature of keeping up with rules promulgated by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual, has provided guidance on one of...
Dec 15 2016 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was elected vice chair of...
Dec 15 2016 // A Texas Panhandle woman and man must serve five-year prison terms for seeking to have her estranged husband killed in a failed $1 million insurance plot. Brandi Nicole Blanco of Dalhart and Randy Exavier Greene, who lived...
Dec 15 2016 // Oklahoma City-based INSURICA and Amarillo, Texas-based DFB Insurance Group have combined to form INSURICA DFB Insurance Services LLC.The new entity will be jointly owned by INSURICA and DFB. The transaction, effective Jan....
Dec 14 2016 // The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is highly unpopular in both Texas and Arkansas, but the sharply different approaches the states have taken is evident in the availability and cost of health care — in the span of a...