All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2014 // All-Star Insurance Group Inc., a full service independent insurance agency based in Gilmer, Texas, has added Joye Cooper and Jeniffer Kitchell as agents.Cooper will maintain an office at All-Star Insurance Group’s...
Oct 22 2014 // Millicent Gist, a receptionist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, was surprised to hear her facility was an officially designated hospital for people suspected of having Ebola in New York City.That’s...
Oct 21 2014 // About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said.Officials said 43 of 48...
Oct 21 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...
Oct 21 2014 // The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from...
Oct 20 2014 // Mark McCunniff has joined Bailey Insurance & Risk Management in Waco, Texas, as a commercial lines producer. Mark McCunniff McCunniff received his Risk Management & Insurance degree from Baylor University and spent...
Oct 20 2014 // The safety protocol used by healthcare workers to treat Ebola patients in Dallas wasn’t adequate because it didn’t require that all skin be covered, said Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute...
Oct 20 2014 // Texas Brine asserted in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, that “Liberty filed in Texas despite the fact that the sinkhole occurred in Louisiana, and all the other claimants and claims are in Louisiana. Texas...
Oct 20 2014 // The collapse of a portion of a salt dome that left a 37-acre sinkhole in swampy land west of Baton Rouge, La., has bubbled up into a $50 million dispute between the mine operator and its insurance company.Texas Brine LLC...
Oct 17 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 17 2014 // As Thomas Eric Duncan’s health deteriorated, nurses Amber Joy Vinson and Nina Pham were at the Ebola patient’s side.They wore protective gear including face shields, hazardous materials suits and protective...
Oct 17 2014 // Three Mississippi businessmen argue in a federal lawsuit that Texas attorneys owe them $7.9 million for steering to them thousands of people seeking to resolve claims against BP from the 2010 Gulf oil spill.Gulf Coast...
Oct 16 2014 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced 11 of its agencies have been recognized as 2014 “Best Practices” agencies by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA...
Oct 16 2014 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle an unpaid claims lawsuit filed by a southern school district, according to state district court records in Cameron County.The...
Oct 16 2014 // Houston, TX, October 16, 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 announcing a...
Oct 15 2014 // Cecil Y. Ray Jr., chairman of AFS/IBEX and former chairman of The Rigg Group, has announced the sale of substantially all of the loan portfolio and related assets of Dallas-based AFS/IBEX Financial Services Inc. –...
Oct 15 2014 // A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing copper in a ring that investigators say targeted Central Texas communication towers.Ricky Thatcher must also pay more than $163,000 to victims,...
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough.The worker at...
Oct 14 2014 // A powerful storm system swept across Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma late on Sunday and early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others, emergency officials said, as millions of people were in the path of...