All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2014 // A Houston-area insurance agent whose company included the word “integrity” in its name has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from about 40 clients. A judge in Galveston sentenced Christopher...
Mar 25 2014 // Payments per claim for the medical care of injured workers in Texas grew nearly 8 percent in 2011, largely the effect of price increases from earlier reforms, according to a 16-state study by the Workers Compensation...
Mar 24 2014 // Texas Associates Insurors has hired David Thomas as a risk solutions adviser.Thomas, a former football player for the University of Texas has a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and has earned the CLCS, Commercial...
Mar 24 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance is issuing a special catastrophe areas data call to property/casualty insurers who write direct commercial property and businessowners insurance in Texas.Information collected under this...
Mar 24 2014 // Mike Tullis was named president of MNH Tullis, a Little Rock, Ark.-based company that partners with Mullis Newby Hurst (MNH) in Addison, Texas.Tullis began his career with MNH Tullis after opening the organization’s...
Mar 24 2014 // A U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan wants her state to opt out of the National Flood Insurance Program, saying it’s not good for Michigan homeowners.U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) voted against H.R. 3370,...
Mar 24 2014 // Winter storms caused $2 billion in insured losses in 2013, up dramatically from $38 million in 2012, according to reports from Munich Re. From 1993 to 2012, winter storms resulted in about $28 billion in insured...
Mar 24 2014 // Texas’ rapidly expanding population has given rise to something else: more deadly car crashes.The number of fatal automobile crashes in Texas has been on the decline since 1980, but for the past two years, both...
Mar 21 2014 // Travis County, Texas, district courts sentenced two men, in separate cases, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The men collected a combined $9,928 in benefits they were not entitled to, according to...
Mar 20 2014 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance Julia Rathgeber appointed Lyndell Haigood to serve on the board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) for a term to expire in March 2015. The board oversees all...
Mar 19 2014 // Portions of a $60 million Texas high school football stadium that opened just two years ago may have to be demolished and rebuilt after structural flaws were found.A report by Plano-based Nelson Forensics says cracks found...
Mar 18 2014 // Texas regulators are seeking comments on new rules related to surplus lines insurance.The Texas Department of Insurance is considering rules to implement Senate Bill (SB) 697 and 951, and House Bill (HB) 1405 (83rd Texas...
Mar 16 2014 // General Motors Co. was sued on behalf of vehicle owners over an ignition flaw in some small- model cars as it faces regulators’ questions about this year’s recall of 1.6 million vehicles.Bob Hilliard, one of...
Mar 14 2014 // A wall of dust as tall as 1,000 feet and 200 miles wide that roared across parts of West Texas and New Mexico is yet another sign of how rain-starved the region is.National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Aldrich in...
Mar 14 2014 // Independent insurance brokers Higginbotham, based in Fort Worth, and Edgmon Insurance Agency, headquartered in Odessa, Texas, have merged their operations.Edgmon Insurance is a family-owned agency going on its third...
Mar 13 2014 // Texas’ rapidly expanding population has given rise to something else: more deadly car crashes.The number of fatal automobile crashes in Texas has been on the decline since 1980, but that trend may have come to a...
Mar 12 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Howard Douglas Whiddon of Dripping Springs pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges in a Travis County district court. The court sentenced Whiddon to 10...
Mar 12 2014 // Federal and state officials are having trouble collecting the multimillion-dollar judgment a Texas company was ordered to pay for mistreating 32 mentally disabled workers at an Iowa labor camp.The Des Moines Register...
Mar 11 2014 // A new $4 million study will look at two ideas that have been proposed as ways to protect the Houston area from hurricane storm surges that could cause billions of dollars in damage and wreak havoc on the largest...
Mar 10 2014 // A Southern Methodist University student who says she was raped on the Texas campus is suing both the school and her alleged attacker, seeking damages of more than $1 million.The Dallas Morning News reported the lawsuit...