All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency reversed its previous decision and approved additional funding to help rebuild the small Texas town where an April fertilizer plant explosion leveled homes, damaged buildings and...
Aug 5 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas elected new officers and recognized outstanding members at the association’s recent 116th Annual Conference and Trade Show in Dallas.Bill Henry, chairman and CEO of MHBT...
Aug 5 2013 // The Insurance Council of Texas presented Ron Cobb, counsel to the American Insurance Association (AIA), with its Raymond Mauk Leadership Award.The award is the ICT’s highest honor and is intended to bestow...
Aug 5 2013 // Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent SentencedA former Bixby, Okla., insurance agent has been sentenced to 10 months home confinement after pleading guilty to wire fraud that allowed him to illegally take commissions earned by...
Aug 5 2013 // During the past 20 to 30 years typical business dealings between wholesale insurance brokers and retail agents have evolved from being purely transactional experiences to those that are highly dependent upon relationships...
Aug 5 2013 // The value of social media as a tool for marketing and selling property/casualty insurance may be a matter of debate but one thing is for certain: While the nature of social media may be evolving, it’s not going...
Aug 2 2013 // A Travis County, Texas grand jury has indicted Mark Edward Helm and McClanahan Drywall Inc., of Emory, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Helm was an officer of McClanahan Drywall Inc. and obtained...
Aug 2 2013 // Linda Hummel and Andrew Grove have joined SWBC in San Antonio, Texas.Hummel, a healthcare industry veteran, joins SWBC as CEO of the executive benefits consulting division. She will be responsible for the direction and...
Aug 2 2013 // The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has received a $790,000 grant from the Houston Endowment for a ground-breaking project to map and evaluate the...
Aug 1 2013 // A lawsuit by 11 states and a Texas bank challenging the Dodd-Frank law’s financial regulation overhaul was dismissed by a federal judge.U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington Thursday ruled that the...
Aug 1 2013 // August is the most dangerous month of the year when it comes to on-the–job injuries, according to an analysis of claims data in Texas from the past two years by Travelers Companies Inc.Texas employers filed more...
Jul 31 2013 // Houston, Texas-based Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP announced that Kyle Dean has taken the helm as president and CEO in the wake of Bob Dean’s death.Kyle Dean was formerly vice president and partner at Dean...
Jul 31 2013 // A Southeast Texas city still recovering from 2008’s Hurricane Ike has access to more than $21 million in funds previously frozen in a public housing dispute.The Galveston County Daily reported Tuesday that the Texas...
Jul 31 2013 // More than three months after a Texas fertilizer plant exploded, killing 15 people and hurting hundreds, the state still has not started surveying blast injuries despite interest from state and federal officials.Those...
Jul 31 2013 // Derek Noble has joined Texas-based independent insurance brokerage, Roach Howard Smith & Barton, as a sales executive in its employee benefits department.Noble began his insurance career in Phoenix, Ariz., working for...
Jul 29 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has begun distributing $175 million in dividends among approximately 40,000 policyholders. Dividends reward loyal policyholders who share the company’s commitment to preventing...
Jul 29 2013 // A Texas woman wants $1 million in damages from a steakhouse known for letting patrons throw peanut shells on the floor after she says she slipped and fell on the droppings. Amelia Tijerina says she suffered physical pain,...
Jul 29 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced that Kerry D. Sullivan will join the agency as Deputy Commissioner for Hearings, effective Sept. 3, 2013. Prior to joining the...
Jul 24 2013 // Nearly a dozen people reported being injured in the last five years while riding the Texas roller coaster from which a woman fell to her death last week, though the most serious injuries appear to be a concussion and...
Jul 23 2013 // A former Denton County, Texas, insurance agent has been convicted in an insurance fraud scheme that targeted elderly individuals, U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana of the Northern District of Texas announced.A federal jury in...