All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 23 2013 // Swett & Crawford has added Dan Lazarz as a broker in its professional services practice group in Dallas. Lazarz brings more than 10 years of management and professional liability expertise. He began his career as an...
Sep 23 2013 // When the Texas Supreme Court decides to look at controversial insurance coverage issues, you can assume that their decisions will never be boring. Such was the case in its Aug. 23 decision in Lennar Corp. v. Markel...
Sep 19 2013 // Texas’ top insurance regulator has found herself in the midst of a battle over rules that govern those who will provide information to consumers about the health insurance exchanges that are a part of the U.S....
Sep 18 2013 // Waco, Texas-based NLASCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hilltop Holdings Inc., announced that the company has changed its name to National Lloyds Corp.This change is part of National Lloyds Corp.’s overall re-branding...
Sep 17 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that selections have been made for two agency deputy commissioner positions.Mark Einfalt will serve as deputy commissioner of compliance beginning Sept. 23, 2013. He will lead...
Sep 17 2013 // Sept. 13 marked the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Ike on the Texas coast. Despite its Category 2 ranking when it hit, Ike caused more than $30 billion in damage and the lessons learned from it could be...
Sep 13 2013 // A $35 million lawsuit filed by a utility alleges a tree-trimming company failed to properly maintain vegetation before 2011 Central Texas wildfires destroyed nearly 1,700 homes.The lawsuit filed by Bluebonnet Electric...
Sep 13 2013 // Global Liberty Insurance Co. of New York, a specialty underwriter of limousine, executive car service, taxi and para-transit, will start accepting risks in Texas starting in October. The addition of the state represents...
Sep 12 2013 // An insurance agent from Houston has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for pocketing more than $250,000 in customer premiums, the Texas Department of Insurance reported.TDI said McKinley Shumate, 59, of Houston was...
Sep 12 2013 // The board of Texas insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast voted at its August meeting to raise premium rates beginning in January 2014.The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board of directors...
Sep 11 2013 // Higginbotham and Capital Benefits Group have merged their operations, becoming what the companies believe to be the largest independent insurance and financial services employer in Central Texas.Higginbotham provides...
Sep 11 2013 // BP Plc faces the first of almost 48,000 toxic exposure claims from neighbors of a Texas refinery who say they’ll give the billions of dollars in punitive damages they’re seeking to charity if they win at...
Sep 9 2013 // Krauter & Company has added a 10th U.S. base of operations with the addition of a new office in Houston. The Texas-based team will focus primarily on energy, aviation and upper mid-market and risk-management accounts....
Sep 9 2013 // Leigh Harris joined Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton insurance brokerage firm as assistant vice president in the employee benefits division.Prior to benefits consulting, Harris spent six years as a workforce...
Sep 9 2013 // The federal Affordable Care Act will not lead to widespread premium increases in the individual health insurance market. That’s according to a new analysis of 10 states and the United States overall by RAND Corp.,...
Sep 9 2013 // LevelFirst, a wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, announced that Brett Biskup has joined the firm as senior vice president.Biskup brings more than 21 years of insurance experience, most...
Sep 6 2013 // Insurance agents and company representatives from across the state will meet Oct. 6-7 in San Marcos at the Embassy Suites San Marcos Hotel, Spa and Conference Center for the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ 9th...
Sep 5 2013 // KBR Inc. is invoking federal laws shielding contractors during wartime in an effort to avoid a Texas trial over injuries claimed by troops who were exposed to toxic chemicals while guarding a work site in Iraq.KBR argued...
Sep 4 2013 // Brownsville drivers are among the best in the country. The Allstate Insurance Company’ ninth annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” lists America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car...
Sep 3 2013 // Two South Texas counties have among the highest rates of people without health insurance in the nation, with working Hispanic men in South Texas the most likely to not have coverage, according to data released by the U.S....