All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2015 // Newegg Inc. has been waiting for almost two years for a Texas federal judge to make a final ruling on a patent lawsuit it lost. On Monday it stopped waiting and asked an appeals court to force the judge into action.Newegg...
Jul 8 2015 // Google Inc. has selected Texas as the latest testing site for its self-driving car project, the company announced Tuesday.A modified Lexus SUV has already been seen on Austin roads, with safety drivers on board, according...
Jul 7 2015 // Florida-based 1347 Property Insurance Holdings Inc. is partnering with Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. to offer wind/hail coverage in Texas.Under this partnership, 1347 Property Insurance subsidiary, Maison Insurance Co....
Jul 7 2015 // A Travis County, Texas district court has granted preliminary approval of a settlement with Farmers Insurance Group that will return $84.4 million to policyholders stemming from a 2002 homeowners insurance rate case.The...
Jul 6 2015 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a policyholder-owned company, announced it awarded a dividend of $4,019,352 to the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA) safety group. The dividend was earned based on the group...
Jul 6 2015 // Redpoint Insurance Group LLC has acquired Safeway County Mutual Insurance Co. in Dallas, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Safeway County Mutual Insurance will operate under the name Redpoint County Mutual...
Jul 6 2015 // The number 1.00 means different things to different people. In baseball, 1.00 represents a perfect batting average. But in college, a 1.00 grade point average is about as bad as it gets. In workers’ compensation, a...
Jul 6 2015 // The number of insurance claims from lightning strikes in the United States continued its steady decline, as severe thunderstorm activity eased from near-record levels and dry weather prevailed throughout much of the...
Jul 6 2015 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) elected Roger Luttrell, president of Benton Luttrell Co. in Van Alstyne, Texas, as its chairman for 2015/16.Other members of the newly elected 2015-16 CAA management...
Jul 6 2015 // Patriot National, BrandywineFort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Patriot National Inc. has acquired Brandywine Insurance Advisors, a specialty insurance brokerage focusing on the construction industry. Patriot National said the...
Jul 2 2015 // Traffic records dating back 30 years continually list July 4 as the deadliest day to travel on our roadways, the Insurance Council of Texas reports.With July 4 landing on a Saturday this year, the mix of summer travel, the...
Jul 2 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Wes Becknell, business development officer at AFCO in La Vernia, as its Young Associate of the Year.The award recognizes a young associate member of IIAT who...
Jul 2 2015 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. (Lighthouse), with headquarters in Florida, began offering homeowners insurance and flood insurance throughout Texas on July 1.Lighthouse also provides coverage to more than 36,000...
Jun 30 2015 // Calling the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a “lawless ruling,” Texas’ conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton said state workers can cite their religious...
Jun 30 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Adam Sammons of MHBT in Dallas the André P. Juneau Young Agent of the Year at its annual conference and trade show in San Antonio.This award is given annually to a...
Jun 30 2015 // Dallas, TX, June 30 2015–To use a baseball metaphor, Texas All Risk General Agency (TAR) is batting .725 with Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company at the mid-year point.According to TAR VP David Day, “With the All...
Jun 29 2015 // A Texas appeals court has ruled that an insurer can’t recoup premium taxes reluctantly paid on reinsurance agreements with two public employee self-insured risk pools on the grounds that the risk pools aren’t...
Jun 29 2015 // A natural gas pipeline explosion and fire in a Texas Panhandle town has left four workers injured, including two in critical condition.The Carson County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened at night on June 25...
Jun 29 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Garry Kaufman, president of Galveston Insurance Associates, as the recipient of its Drex Foreman Award at IIAT’s 118th Annual Conference and Trade Show in San...
Jun 29 2015 // A 16-year-old driver has been blamed for a wreck that caused more than $100,000 in damage to new trucks and other property at a Texas dealership.Corpus Christi police say the driver suffered minor injuries in the accident...