All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2013 // Texas lawmakers are seeking to rein in lenders who finance lawsuits.Under a bill considered in the Texas House Committee on the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, the lenders would have to abide by regulations that already...
Mar 19 2013 // The Mesquite Police Department reports the simple message from the Lock, Take and Hide crime prevention signs have had a tremendous impact on reducing auto thefts and burglaries in their city.The police department recently...
Mar 19 2013 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., announced that Joe Yurkovich has accepted the position of senior vice president of strategic planning. He returns to Texas Mutual after serving as...
Mar 14 2013 // Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, readily concedes that starting a personal lines-focused insurance business in Texas in 2001 – while the state was in the throes of...
Mar 14 2013 // A state senator in Texas is taking the insurance industry to task for what he perceives as its disinterest in coming up with new approaches to solving coastal windstorm insurance issues.In a Senate committee meeting on...
Mar 14 2013 // Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says a Texas company blamed for the sinkhole that formed after the collapse of an underground salt cavern has agreed to provide settlement offers, which include buyouts, to the residents of the...
Mar 13 2013 // Southport Lane, a New York-based private equity firm, completed its previously announced acquisition of Dallas National Insurance Co., a Texas-based property and casualty insurer specializing in general liability and...
Mar 12 2013 // Brandon Finks has joined Roach Howard Smith & Barton insurance brokerage firm as a commercial sales executive for property/ casualty insurance.Finks began his career as a certified insurance claims adjuster with AIG...
Mar 12 2013 // Long known for its epic weather-related events, a report released today by the National Insurance Crime Bureau indicates that some Texas insurance fraud might also be prompted by weather. Since 2010, questionable roofing...
Mar 11 2013 // A new Gallup poll reports that Texas has the highest percentage of people ever recorded without health insurance at 28.8 percent. The poll released comes one year after the U.S. Census Bureau reported 24.4 percent of...
Mar 11 2013 // Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, readily concedes that starting a personal lines-focused insurance business in Texas in 2001 – while the state was in the throes of...
Mar 11 2013 // Dallas-based managing general agency, Arcana Insurance Services, named Gary Kirkindoll as chief business development officer.Kirkindoll will oversee development of the company’s customer base in the credit union...
Mar 11 2013 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman could have trouble winning Senate confirmation to keep her job, as Democrats with enough votes to defeat her nomination question her credentials.Appointed by Texas Gov. Rick...
Mar 11 2013 // Top 40 Insurers/Homeowners Based on 2011 Texas Written Premium Rank Company $ Written Premium % of Market 1 State Farm Lloyds $1,678,075,665 28.09% 2 Allstate Texas Lloyd’s 462,398,477 7.74% 3 Texas Farmers Ins....
Mar 11 2013 // A recent survey shows that most registered Texas voters support the licensing of roofers in the state.According to the survey by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), when asked if roofing contractors should be licensed in...
Mar 11 2013 // Texas’ property insurer of last resort in coastal counties may have a difficult time remaining intact during the 2013 legislative session.Claims from 2008’s Hurricane Ike still trickle in and ongoing...
Mar 8 2013 // What the TV ads touting Texans’ love of pickup trucks won’t tell you is that so do Texas thieves.Ford, Chevy and Dodge pickups top the Texas Department of Public Safety’s list of most-stolen vehicles last...
Mar 5 2013 // A bill has been filed that would drastically change the structure and/or funding for Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the coast.Senate Bill 18 by Sen. John Corona would create the Texas Property...
Mar 1 2013 // Light snow fell in much of the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and Midwest crop region early Friday with a bigger storm forecast for late next week, shrinking the area hit by the worst dry spell in 50 years.Agricultural...
Feb 28 2013 // Wells Fargo’s Student Insurance Division, part of Wells Fargo & Co., announced plans to expand its Play it Safe Concussion Care Program to schools throughout Texas.The program improves identification and...