All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2014 // Kemper Corp.Kemper Corp. is realigning its property/casualty business. This realignment will result in one property/casualty segment for financial reporting purposes, beginning with the first quarter 2014. The new Kemper...
Feb 24 2014 // The Oklahoma tornadoes of May 2013 not only caused significant loss of life but also contributed to its designation last year as the costliest state for natural disaster related insurance payouts, according to the...
Feb 24 2014 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency LLC (HIA) promoted Farrah Carlton to vice president of service. Carlton will lead client services initiatives and service management across all HIA offices.She previously held several positions...
Feb 24 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named West Mayor Tommy Muska of Muska Insurance Services as its newest Trusted Choice Hometown Hero.Hometown Hero recognizes Trusted Choice insurance agents who go above and...
Feb 24 2014 // Texas Insurance Commissioner, Julia RathgeberTexas will be privatizing many functions in its workers’ compensation system if a proposal to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual,...
Feb 20 2014 // Texas will be privatizing many functions in its workers’ compensation system if a staff petition to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual, with Texas exceptions, and the national...
Feb 19 2014 // Traffic fatalities are down but the number of wrecks has risen in a 23-county area of South Texas where oil drilling has boomed in recent years. The San Antonio Express News reports there were 236 fatalities in 2013, a...
Feb 19 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. is launching a recruitment campaign to appoint 120 new agency owners in Texas this year. Allstate agency owners are also actively searching for qualified candidates to fill more than 800 sales...
Feb 19 2014 // York Risk Services Group, a provider of claims administration and risk management services, has acquired American Claims Services Inc. (ACSI) based in Houston, Texas, and Destrehan, La.John Bannon and Bill Johnson of ACSI...
Feb 19 2014 // The Houston Health Department likely won’t have to pay for additional training for most of the “navigators” who are helping city residents enroll in the new federal health insurance marketplace. All it...
Feb 13 2014 // Loss exposure for Texas’ wind and hail insurer of last resort along the coast increased by around 319 percent between 2005 and 2012 – from $23.26 billion to $74.17 billion, and its policy count grew by...
Feb 13 2014 // Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy is urging all fire chiefs, fire marshals and local law enforcement officers to take advantage of the Texas Arson Hotline, which is supported by A Texas Advisory Council on Arson...
Feb 13 2014 // Ryan Specialty Group’s wholesale brokerage R-T Specialty LLC (RT) has acquired Blais Excess & Surplus Agency of Texas Ltd. (Blais), an independent, specialty wholesale broker with offices in Dallas and...
Feb 13 2014 // A federal agency is granting $20 million to a rural Central Texas town to help rebuild two schools destroyed in last year’s deadly fertilizer plant explosion, town and federal officials said.The Federal Emergency...
Feb 12 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has lowered the maintenance tax rate to 1.543 percent of gross premiums collected by workers’ compensation insurance...
Feb 11 2014 // The Oklahoma tornadoes of May 2013 not only caused significant loss of life but also contributed to its designation last year as the costliest state for natural disaster related insurance payouts, according to the...
Feb 11 2014 // Final figures released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) show that insured losses to residential and commercial property from flood waters which swamped Central Texas on Halloween night 2013 totaled...
Feb 10 2014 // The excess and surplus lines insurance industry was in a good place last year, characterized by a stable market and moderate growth, according to one executive who is bullish on the sector.“I think the E&S market...
Feb 10 2014 // Guarantee Insurance Co., a monoline workers’ compensation insurance subsidiary of Florida-based Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., is expanding into Texas. Patriot National said the addition of Texas increases...
Feb 10 2014 // The Cost“You can talk to anyone who’s lost a friend or family member to a drunk driver and they’ll tell you about the cost.” –Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told a Washington state Senate...