All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2016 // Brightway Insurance announced that agency owner Peter Linke has opened the company’s newest office in North Texas, Brightway Preston Trail. The agency is located at 17194 Preston Road, Suite 210, at the corner of...
Aug 12 2016 // A recently released report by Austin, Texas-based car insurance comparison firm, The Zebra, shows that car insurance rate hikes in the Austin area over the past five years have far exceeded the national average.Austin car...
Aug 11 2016 // A state representative from North Dakota, who serves on the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Committee at the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), says he’s concerned about reserves for paying...
Aug 10 2016 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has reappointed five members to serve on the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan Governing Committee.The FAIR Plan provides residential property insurance in...
Aug 10 2016 // LevelFirst, the wholesale broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., has appointed Bryan Revett as assistant vice president.Revett will assume the responsibility of brokering new business opportunities...
Aug 9 2016 // The Nitsche Group has relocated its Rockwall office to Forney, Texas, effective Aug. 1.The company is a full-service provider of insurance and risk management services. The firm offers an array of insurance products and...
Aug 9 2016 // The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school has filed a federal lawsuit against Texas school officials and others, saying they violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights.The...
Aug 8 2016 // An Illinois think tank has issued a report expressing support for a workers’ compensation opt-out system, stating that it would give employers the ability to lower costs and allow for a more flexible workforce.In its...
Aug 8 2016 // TDECU, based in Lake Jackson, Texas, has added Deana Wooley to the team at TDECU Insurance Agency LLC. Wooley will be responsible for serving members in the Gulf Coast region, specializing in personal lines insurance. A...
Aug 8 2016 // Two business groups sued the Obama administration on Thursday over a crackdown on U.S. companies that try to reduce their U.S. taxes by rebasing abroad in a process known as inversion.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the...
Aug 8 2016 // Texas officials say a Houston attorney has pleaded guilty at the conclusion of a multi-year investigation into a criminal organization that set up fake auto accidents and medical bills.Investigators with the Texas...
Aug 8 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) posthumously honored Ron Lawson, former vice president at the Republic Group in Dallas, with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award during the group’s 24th Annual ICT Mid-Year Property...
Aug 8 2016 // Warning about potential high-fatality accidents, safety investigators recommended two years ago that the Federal Aviation Administration impose greater oversight on commercial hot air balloon operators, government...
Aug 5 2016 // A Texas-based pre-cast concrete structure manufacturer has been cited by federal safety officials for 17 repeat, serious workplace safety violations and faces penalties totaling $99, 248.The Turner Company LLP was cited by...
Aug 4 2016 // Surplus lines may not be the most widely understood segment of the property/casualty insurance industry but for risk managers of large organizations it’s often the go-to market for complicated risks for which...
Aug 3 2016 // Carrollton, Texas-based agency marketing, rating and management software and services firm, Insurance Technologies Corp. (ITC), announced the addition of two-factor authentication to its comparative rating and sales...
Aug 3 2016 // Data from the 14 U.S. surplus lines service/stamping offices show they have processed almost $12.7 billion in insurance premium filings in the first half of 2016, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas...
Aug 3 2016 // The pilot of the hot air balloon that crashed on July 30 in Texas had at least four drunken-driving convictions, two prison stays and more than 40 customer complaints in his past, records show.Alfred “Skip”...
Aug 3 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Victory Insurance Agency Inc., based in Pearland, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1983, Victory Insurance Agency (Victory) is a retail insurance...
Aug 2 2016 // Federal safety officials on July 28 cited Oscar Renda Contracting Inc. for safety violations at a site in Houston and proposed penalties of $124,300.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...