All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 25 2015 // Joe Phifer, senior account executive in the Assurant Employee Benefits’ Dallas sales office, has been elected president of the Texas Association of Health Underwriters.Phifer begins serving his one-year term as...
Jun 25 2015 // Dallas-based Redpoint Insurance Group LLC is purchasing the workers’ compensation business of American Hallmark Insurance Co. of Texas, located in Austin.The acquisition is expected to close effective July 1, 2015....
Jun 25 2015 // Insurance broker and consultant, NFP, has acquired specialty agency AutoGroup Services (AGS), based in Fort Worth, Texas.Founded in 2000, AGS consults with auto dealerships to help maximize the profitability of their...
Jun 25 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court said people who file housing-discrimination suits don’t have to show they were victims of intentional bias, in a blow to lenders and insurers and a surprise legal victory for the Obama...
Jun 24 2015 // The Woodlands, Texas-based TWFG recognized its outstanding agents from across the nation during the company’s recent national convention.TWFG also introduced its new slogan — “Our Policy is Caring: Our Vision...
Jun 24 2015 // Federal inspectors found several violations during their most recent review of Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission system, which includes the pipeline that burst in the Arkansas River in May.Spectra Energy...
Jun 24 2015 // The damage toll has been counted from flash flooding in South Texas on June 19. Edinburg City Manager Ramiro Garza told reporters that about 300 houses and 22 businesses were damaged after up to 6 inches of rainfall over...
Jun 22 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Bill Kliewer, managing partner at BKCW in Killeen, to serve as chairman for 2015-2016.Kliewer has more than 35 years of insurance, financial and management...
Jun 22 2015 // Lightning damage is the most striking in Texas, at least for the insurance industry.The average claim in the state was $10,671 last year, the Insurance Information Institute said in a statement. That’s the highest...
Jun 19 2015 // Leaders of a North Texas university town that was the first in the state to ban hydraulic fracturing repealed the voter-approved measure early on June 17, sounding a tone of capitulation to the state’s powerful oil...
Jun 18 2015 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Texas-based Walker Myers Insurance & Risk Management LLC.With offices in Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Corpus Christi, Walker Myers presents its clients an array of insurance...
Jun 18 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill wrung out almost 12 inches of rain over parts of eastern Texas, was downgraded to a depression and then handed off from the National Hurricane Center to the Weather Prediction Center.That doesn’t...
Jun 18 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) recently named William “Doug” Wallace as a fraud prosecutor who will work exclusively with criminal prosecutors in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office to...
Jun 18 2015 // GEICO has unveiled a new auto insurance product in Texas for drivers of on-demand transportation network companies (TNC) like Uber, Lyft, Sidecar that covers both personal and ridesharing needs.GEICO Senior Vice President...
Jun 17 2015 // Though Tropical Storm Bill has been downgraded to a tropical depression, as it moves across Texas its heavy rains are flooding streets and have left at least one person dead in the state where severe weather killed about...
Jun 16 2015 // Tropical Storm Bill came ashore on the Texas mainland this morning near Seadrift, packing heavy rains that will drop as much as 10 inches along the coast.Bill’s winds were 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour, up from...
Jun 16 2015 // Insurance software provider Vertafore, has acquired QQ Solutions, Inc., a provider of agency management systems and a comparative rater offering. The move expands Vertafore’s portfolio of agency management systems...
Jun 15 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...
Jun 15 2015 // Blue Bell Creameries says it has likely identified the source of listeria contamination at its Oklahoma plant, but it may not be able to pinpoint a single source for the problem at its Texas plant. The Texas-based company...
Jun 15 2015 // The Atlantic’s second storm of the year may be developing over the Yucatan Peninsula, with the potential to reach Texas and Louisiana and flood Houston for the second time in a month.Thunderstorms moving northwest...