All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 29 2016 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has paid more than $3 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 4,000 newer policyholders across the state. The payout is the final component of the workers’ compensation...
Nov 28 2016 // The lone survivor of a head-on crash between two freight trains in the Texas Panhandle has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million in damages.The Amarillo Globe-News reported that Derek Schilling filed the lawsuit...
Nov 23 2016 // An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas.The decision Tuesday is a victory for 21 states and dozens of...
Nov 22 2016 // A white Chevy Suburban with “Railroad Commission of Texas” emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission’s director.Trim and balding, Rister was...
Nov 21 2016 // A federal judge in Texas is giving Exxon Mobil Corp. an unprecedented chance to question a state law-enforcement officer who is investigating whether the energy company hid damaging data about climate change from...
Nov 18 2016 // Giddings, Texas-based independent insurance agency, Nitsche Group, has been named the 2016 Medium Family Business of the Year by Baylor University’s Institute for Family Business.The Family Business of the Year Award...
Nov 17 2016 // Teri Brinson, executive vice president of M.D. Jensvold & Co. Inc. in Houston, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA). Brinson was installed at TSLA’s 61st Annual Meeting held...
Nov 16 2016 // Nashville, Tenn.-based Velocity Risk Underwriters announced it is offering coastal wind-only homeowners insurance policies for customers that may otherwise be insured in the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association...
Nov 15 2016 // Texas has some of the nation’s most affordable workers’ compensation coverage, according to a 2016 study, which found that the Lone Star State had the 10th lowest rates among all states, the Texas Division of...
Nov 15 2016 // Texas Department of Transportation records show no highway routes designated for transport of hazardous chemicals in the Houston area have been updated over the past 20 years and government officials appear befuddled over...
Nov 14 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to stop his investigation into what the company knew about climate change.The oil giant on Thursday revised a lawsuit it filed in June against...
Nov 10 2016 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) announced the passage of an important milestone in its Assumption Reinsurance Depopulation Program (Assumption program): agents have approved 18,000 policies for possible...
Nov 9 2016 // Access to medical care for injured workers has greatly improved in Texas over the past 15 years, a study commissioned by the Texas Department of Insurance shows.A September 2016 study by TDI’s Research and Evaluation...
Nov 7 2016 // Data provider CoreLogic’s new annual Wildfire Risk report designates 1.8 million single-family homes across 13 Western states as being at “Extreme” or “High” risk of wildfire damage,...
Nov 4 2016 // Texas Insurance Commissioner David Mattax has approved rate changes for private passenger and commercial automobile insurance provided through the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA), which is the...
Nov 4 2016 // The Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) reported the following changes to the eligible insurer list.Alien insurers effective 10/1/2016 include the following: The Hanover Atlantic Insurance Company LTD. Helvetia...
Nov 3 2016 // The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting applications through November 30 for a public member position on the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association board of directors. The appointment term is for...
Nov 3 2016 // A Mineral Wells, Texas-based manufacturer is facing more than $224,000 in fines levied by federal safety officials after an investigation found the company failed to protect workers from safety and health hazards.The U.S....
Nov 2 2016 // Texas has twice as many motorists killed in vehicles colliding with wild animals than any other state, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reports.According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), more than...
Nov 2 2016 // A Texas woman has sued American Honda Motor Co Inc. and the U.S. subsidiary of airbag maker Takata Corporation for at least $1 million, claiming that she was badly injured in a low-speed car accident because the propellant...