All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2013 // The policyholder owners of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. will share a $175 million dividend distribution this year, the company’s board of directors announced after a unanimous vote on May 7, 2013.This is the 15th...
May 8 2013 // Employees of a South Texas city who have concealed handgun permits will be allowed to take their weapons to work starting Aug. 1.The Aransas Pass City Council on night amended a ban on weapons for city workers to allow for...
May 7 2013 // Rockwood Programs has implemented underwriting guideline changes to its P&C Agents E&O program. The modifications will result in a rate decrease in the states of California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Texas. The...
May 7 2013 // While the investigation into the origin and cause of the West Fertilizer Plant fire and explosion in West, Texas, is ongoing, investigators say that ammonium nitrate was detonated in the explosion. However, they...
May 6 2013 // The Texas House has approved contentious plans to let college students carry concealed weapons to class and create special marshals for public schools statewide.Both measures were part of what has been unofficially dubbed...
May 6 2013 // The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage,...
May 6 2013 // Insurance claims from the deadly April 17 Central Texas fertilizer facility explosion are expected to reach the $100 million mark excluding any insurance payments that may be triggered by lawsuits that have been filed as a...
May 3 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and its Trusted Choice agencies, insurance representatives and other insurance professionals from across the state will gather at the Omni Dallas Hotel, June 26-28, for...
May 2 2013 // A Texas company has been ordered to pay $240 million in damages to 32 mentally disabled workers who formerly worked at the company’s turkey processing plant in Iowa for what government lawyers described as decades of...
May 2 2013 // It’s well known that Texas has some of the highest homeowners premiums in the nation — in large part due to the state’s vulnerability to violent weather. It may be less known that Texas has some of the...
May 2 2013 // An investigation should be finished within the next two weeks into what caused a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that killed 14 people, state authorities said.Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy told...
May 2 2013 // Twenty insurance and risk management students at five Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $23,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend...
May 1 2013 // U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer said on Tuesday she plans to investigate the explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant earlier this month that killed 15 people and injured scores more.California’s Boxer, the head of the...
Apr 30 2013 // The owner of a now defunct chiropractic clinic in Bryan has pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud various automobile insurance companies of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said.Marion...
Apr 30 2013 // Local governments and school districts that offer marriage benefits to same-sex partners are violating the state constitution, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated in an opinion on April 29.The cities of Austin, El...
Apr 30 2013 // A Duncanville, Texas, man faces federal charges in an alleged multi-million dollar staged accident fraud scheme.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas reported that Leroy Nelson was arrested by...
Apr 30 2013 // Federal and state officials investigating the April 17 deadly blast at a Central Texas fertilizer company are trying to determine whether a fire at the plant could have ignited a supply of ammonium nitrate. But how much of...
Apr 29 2013 // The deadly Central Texas fertilizer facility explosion has now spawned six lawsuits, including one from the family of a volunteer firefighter killed in the blast.Fourteen people died and more than 200 were injured by the...
Apr 26 2013 // The state’s consumer advocate has challenged State Farm Insurance Co.’s 20 percent rate hike for Texas homeowners as being too high. Public Insurance Counsel Deeia Beck on April 24 urged two administrative law...
Apr 25 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas is calling for contributions to a fund created to help in the rebuilding of West, Texas, the site of the deadly explosion at a fertilizer facility on April 17.Tommy Muska, mayor of...