All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2015 // Senate Bill 876, passed during the 2015 Texas legislative session, reduced the required credit hours for continuing education (CE) for agent and adjuster license renewals to 24 hours for each two-year renewal period and...
Nov 19 2015 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association has presented its “Joe Howse President’s Award” to both Susan Gropp, Arcana Insurance Services, chairperson, 2014 & 2015 Conference Committee and PAC Committee, and...
Nov 19 2015 // Seventeen students at three Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $34,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students attend St. Mary’s...
Nov 18 2015 // Texas is failing in assessing and preparing for environmental threats posed by climate change, according to a new report.A recently released study by Climate Central and ICF International, States At Risk: America’s...
Nov 18 2015 // Multiple tornadoes hit North Texas late on Nov. 16 and early on Nov. 17, causing property damage.The National Weather Service says at least five tornadoes touched down in the Pampa, Texas, area Monday night. Forecasters in...
Nov 18 2015 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. elected new officers and directors at its 60th annual meeting held Nov. 9 in Austin.The new officers are: President Shawn Fabors, managing director, AmWINS Program Underwriters...
Nov 17 2015 // The truck that killed four members of a college women’s softball team in Oklahoma last year was driven by a Texas man with a history of using synthetic marijuana, U.S. safety investigators found.Russell Staley needed...
Nov 16 2015 // Odyssey, IntegroNew York private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners has completed its acquisition of specialty insurance brokerage Integro Ltd. Financial details of the transaction, first announced in August, were not...
Nov 16 2015 // Authorities say heavy October rains damaged hundreds of homes extending from the Austin area down into South Texas.Travis County emergency officials said more than 330 properties were damaged in flooding at the end of...
Nov 16 2015 // The regulatory agency overseeing the oil and gas industry in Texas has voted to maintain the wastewater injection permits for two companies whose North Texas wells are have been linked to a series of small earthquakes. The...
Nov 16 2015 // For the majority of Texas hunters November is the start of deer hunting season – a dangerous time for deer and drivers, alike.More than 100 people are killed nationally each year from collisions with animals and among...
Nov 15 2015 // Come May 2016, turbocharged forecasts capable of faster updates as conditions change will be used to predict flooding on Central Texas rivers, an innovation expected to give emergency managers more lead time to prepare for...
Nov 12 2015 // The National Alliance recently awarded six scholarships to members of the Federation of Insurance Women of Texas, Inc. (FIWT) at their 71st Annual Convention held in Corpus Christi, Texas.The CIC and CISR scholarships were...
Nov 12 2015 // Severe weather in all regions of the state this year has resulted in high numbers of insurance claims from property and auto losses in Texas, according to an insurance company trade group.The Insurance Council of Texas...
Nov 11 2015 // The new board members of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association must include three members who live in coastal counties, three members who live at least 100 miles from the coast, and three insurance industry...
Nov 10 2015 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a policyholder-owned company, recently awarded a dividend of $629,849 to the National Federation of Independent Businesses Manufacturing (NFIB) safety group.The dividend was earned based on the...
Nov 8 2015 // Authorities say heavy October rains damaged hundreds of homes extending from the Austin area down into South Texas.Travis County emergency officials said in a statement that more than 330 properties were damaged in...
Nov 8 2015 // A bus ferrying migrant farmworkers from Michigan to Texas ran off a highway and hit an overpass in Arkansas on Nov. 6, ripping off the roof and ejecting passengers onto the interstate. Six people were killed and six...
Nov 6 2015 // Texas-based CPro Associates, a wholesaler specializing workers’ compensation and occupation injury insurance products and services, has hired Jon Archer as national marketing director for alternatives to...
Nov 4 2015 // The regulatory agency overseeing the oil and gas industry in Texas has voted to maintain the wastewater injection permits for two companies whose North Texas wells are believed to have caused a series of small...