All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 3 2014 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced an agreement has been reached with Texas incinerator Veolia Environmental Services and Louisiana hazardous waste landfill Chemical Waste Management to ensure that...
Nov 3 2014 // Ranney Pageler, vice president of fraud investigations at Employers Insurance, has been named chair of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) Fraud Committee. Pageler, who is based in Austin, Texas,...
Nov 3 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a South Texas school district, according to district court records in Cameron County.The Brownsville...
Nov 3 2014 // Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort in coastal areas announced that a judgment has been entered in its favor in a lawsuit brought by League City in Southeast Texas.The judgment signed on Oct. 16, 2014, by...
Nov 3 2014 // Texas law recognizes that an insurer’s reservation of rights can create a potential conflict of interest. (Northern County Mut. Ins. Co. v. Davalos, 140 S.W.3d 685 (Tex. 2004)).Although there is a potential for...
Oct 30 2014 // Cindy Jordan, of Barnard Insurance Group in Wichita Falls, Texas, won the FIWT Leadership Award sponsored by Litchfield Special Risks Inc., the company announced. This is the second year the award has been presented to a...
Oct 30 2014 // A federal judge has ordered mediation between a Texas company and a whistleblower who won a $175 million verdict over a design change in the company’s highway guardrails.Critics say the change made it more likely...
Oct 30 2014 // State transportation officials are investigating where faulty guardrails have been installed along Mississippi roadways.Trinity Industries Inc. stopped shipments of its ET-Plus guardrails after Texas jury ordered to pay at...
Oct 30 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Hail Damage by the Numbers Damage from convective storms continues to capture the attention of both the public and insurers because of the increase in the number of...
Oct 29 2014 // National discount chain Dollar Tree Stores Inc., based in Texas, has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for willfully and repeatedly exposing workers to serious...
Oct 29 2014 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking presenters for its 19th Annual Workplace Safety and Health Conference, the Texas Safety Summit, which will be held in Austin on May 19-21, 2015.The...
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing to consider the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s (TWIA) petition related to the maximum limits of liability for windstorm and hail insurance...
Oct 27 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced Amy Allen as a fraud prosecutor who will work exclusively with criminal prosecutors in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office to combat insurance fraud.Allen...
Oct 27 2014 // The National Alliance presented five scholarships to Federation of Insurance Women of Texas Incorporated (FIWT) members at the organization’s 70th Annual Convention, held in Waco, Texas. The CIC and CISR scholarships...
Oct 27 2014 // Frank Martino and Rhonda Flake have joined based in Hunt Valley, Md.-based insurance wholesaler All Risks Ltd. in the firm’s South Central operations.Martino is a broker in Austin, Texas. He specializes in oil and...
Oct 24 2014 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance Julia Rathgeber appointed Christina Ford of Red Oak to the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Governing Committee.The commissioner also reappointed Georgia Neblett of Port Aransas,...
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer.Staley had been heading north on...
Oct 23 2014 // Texas cotton producers say they are pleased to learn the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reconsidered its decision about implementing a provision of the farm bill. The department’s announcement means its Risk...
Oct 23 2014 // A jury has decided that a Texas company should pay $175 million in a case involving the safety of thousands of guardrails on highways around the country.A whistleblower charged that the company changed the design of caps...
Oct 23 2014 // Austin, TX, October 23, 2014– Atlantic Specialty Lines (ASL), a wholesale broker and specialty lines MGA offering a variety of property, casualty, auto, professional, and personal lines coverages, is continuing its...