All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2013 // Texas drivers are filing fewer and fewer complaints against insurance companies these days, an insurance trade group reported.Last year represents the lowest number of justified or confirmed auto insurance complaints filed...
Jan 16 2013 // While tornadoes and hailstorms were pounding their way through the Dallas/Fort Worth area last year, consumers had confidence that their insurance companies would be there to help with repairs to their cars, homes and...
Jan 16 2013 // The Louisiana Office of Conservation has modified orders requiring Texas Brine Co. LLC to assess the status of sediments under an 8.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, prompting the company to withdraw a lawsuit...
Jan 16 2013 // The parents of two Texas boys killed when a pickup truck ran over their tent in a North Dakota campground last summer have returned to North Dakota to lobby the state Legislature for tougher drunken driving laws.Alaries...
Jan 16 2013 // In a heavily guarded store just southwest of Houston, twin .50-caliber “Ma Deuce” machine guns rise up side by side from a mount that could be bolted to the deck of a warship or truck bed.The guns can fire...
Jan 16 2013 // Pre-dispute mandatory binding arbitration provisions in insurance policies may be on their way out in Texas if state insurance regulators proceed with a plan to ban them.The Texas Department of Insurance has informed...
Jan 15 2013 // In 1963, a group of insurance agents under the direction of Joseph E. Vincent from Bryan, Texas, began plans for an annual insurance seminar to be presented by Texas Association of Independent Agents (TAIA) for agency...
Jan 14 2013 // The Texas insurance market is ranked the 12th largest in the world in terms of premium volume, but only an “average” number of insurance carriers call the state home, and many of the 400 insurance companies...
Jan 14 2013 // Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera’s company alleging the singer was negligent when she hired a faulty Learjet 25.The civil...
Jan 14 2013 // P/C Insurance Joint Industry Forum Jan 15 Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY Insurance Information Institute www.iii.org2013 Big ‘I’ Winter Meeting Jan 16-20 The Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa, Rancho...
Jan 14 2013 // Premium on policies reported to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas in 2012 totaled more than $4 billion, a record volume, SLSOT reported. The amount is an increase of $767 million over 2011, a rise of nearly 24...
Jan 14 2013 // In 1963, a group of insurance agents under the direction of Joseph E. Vincent from Bryan, Texas, began plans for an annual insurance seminar to be presented by Texas Association of Independent Agents (TAIA) for agency...
Jan 14 2013 // A bill passed during the 2011 session of the Texas Legislature is creating havoc for some independent insurance agents in the state.House Bill 3410 creates a definition of a managing underwriter, and addresses the filing...
Jan 14 2013 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced that Kathy van Eeten, senior vice president – regional marketing for insurance broker CRC|Crump, has been elected president of the association for the coming year....
Jan 11 2013 // A grand jury has declined to indict the driver of a float involved in a train collision that killed four U.S. military veterans in a West Texas parade.Dale Andrew Hayden, the driver of the truck pulling the float, will not...
Jan 10 2013 // Commercial insurance broker William J. Crocker has joined Higginbotham Insurance Group in Austin, Texas, as vice president, real estate practice leader.Crocker will help build the firm’s presence in the real estate...
Jan 10 2013 // A man who, along with two others, falsely used the names of two well-known insurance groups in a scheme to swindle elderly people out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to prison in North Texas.Adley Husni...
Jan 10 2013 // The government declared much of the central and southern U.S. Wheat Belt a natural disaster area on Wednesday due to persistent drought that imperils this year’s winter wheat harvest.In its first disaster declaration...
Jan 9 2013 // Insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Benefit Concepts Inc. (BCI), a Shreveport, La.-based employee benefits brokerage firm. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. BCI will...
Jan 8 2013 // Houston International Insurance Group (HIIG) has reorganized ts domestic underwriting operations, which going forward will be re-branded under the symbol HIIG.The following divisions have been created: HIIG Construction...