All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2013 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced the election of new officers and directors at its annual meeting in Austin on Nov. 11.Lorrie Cheshier, vice president/branch manager at McClelland & Hine Inc. in San...
Nov 18 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance has begun accepting applications from captive insurance companies located in other jurisdictions that would like to relocate to Texas. TDI will license the companies under a law change...
Nov 18 2013 // Insurance Network of Texas announced it opened new location in Austin on Nov. 15 that will serve as headquarters for its professional services division.The new location is headed by industry veteran Gary Beck. The...
Nov 18 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that it has begun distributing $2.6 million in workers’ compensation dividends among approximately 3,300 new policyholders.The money represents the final component of Texas...
Nov 18 2013 // Twenty students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $38,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend St. Mary’s University in...
Nov 18 2013 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The 2013 Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal‘s Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in August. This list utilizes...
Nov 18 2013 // State Specialists are often an independent agent’s most reliable and consistent market. These companies are focused on a specific geographic area, understand it and consistently strive to serve it.The Demotech...
Nov 18 2013 // More than a foot of rain inundated parts of Central Texas beginning late on Oct. 30. In the aftermath of widespread flooding, insurance agents in Austin say interest in flood insurance coverage has risen dramatically,...
Nov 18 2013 // Mike Gerik, executive vice president of Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Cos., has been elected president of the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT).Gerik, whose term as AFACT president runs for two...
Nov 18 2013 // The state of Texas and Farmers Insurance want to settle decade-old claims of overcharging and underserving customers for $117.5 million, which would be one of the largest insurance settlements in state history but less...
Nov 13 2013 // Insurance agents in Austin, Texas, report the interest in homeowners obtaining flood insurance coverage has risen dramatically after two recent rains that have flooded portions of Austin and neighboring communities....
Nov 12 2013 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., a nationwide managing general agency and surplus lines, has launched a new program for Texas lawyers’ professional liability through its U.S. Risk Pro division. This admitted program,...
Nov 12 2013 // Select Insurance Markets LP (SIM) has added Leila Paschali to its marketing team. Paschali is based in Austin, Texas. Her responsibility will include marketing and adding additional new agents in both Texas and Louisiana....
Nov 12 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved ten renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
Nov 11 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Employee Benefits Analysis Corp. in Addison, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1995, Employee Benefits Analysis Corp. (EBAC) is an...
Nov 11 2013 // The lack of safety planning by parade organizers and the city of Midland, Texas, has been faulted by federal investigators in an accident in November 2012 in which a freight train rammed a tractor-trailer truck towing a...
Nov 8 2013 // Insurance agents in Austin, Texas report the interest in homeowners obtaining flood insurance coverage has risen dramatically after two recent rains that have flooded portions of Austin and neighboring communities.Roughly...
Nov 8 2013 // Madison, Wis.-based American Family Insurance is partnering with Seattle-based start-up, AssureStart, to sell small business insurance online to Texas businesses beginning in mid-November.After launching in Texas,...
Nov 7 2013 // One of the insurers for Texas Brine Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing Texas Brine of ignoring warnings about the potential for disaster if it continued mining an Assumption Parish, La., salt dome cavern.The suit arises from...
Nov 7 2013 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that the company is looking to add 100 new Advantage Program insurance agents in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas markets. Nationwide Insurance...