All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2012 // Effective Jan. 1, 2013, Texas employers who do not carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage have new requirements for reporting their non-coverage status to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Dec 5 2012 // SWBC Insurance Services, headquartered in San Antonio, announced that Michael Hogan has joined the team as senior risk control consultant. In this role, Hogan will provide safety-expertise services to the company’s...
Dec 4 2012 // Willis North America has made a series of appointments in its construction practice to serve clients in the expanding default insurance marketplace. The following individuals comprise Willis’ Default Insurance Group,...
Dec 4 2012 // Twenty-two insurance and risk management students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $40,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation. The students...
Dec 3 2012 // Not one person has been killed in a fire in Texas in the past ten years inside an apartment complex that was equipped with a fire sprinkler system according to data provided by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. In...
Dec 3 2012 // The insurer of last resort for workers’ compensation coverage in Texas is seeking to cut its last ties to the state government that created it.Texas Mutual Insurance Co. was established by the Texas Legislature in...
Dec 3 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. Texas also...
Dec 3 2012 // A year since it began enforcing a ban on texting while driving, a North Texas city says awareness has increased despite the small number of tickets written.Arlington police have issued 49 citations to drivers who were seen...
Dec 3 2012 // Fort Worth-based Higginbotham has hired former U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigator Ross Carmichael as the new vice president of compliance and operations for its employee benefits division.Higginbotham brokers...
Nov 30 2012 // The amount of surplus lines insurance premium written in Texas rose by 25 percent as of the end of October compared with the same period the year before, signaling a boost to companies operating in this sector. The state...
Nov 29 2012 // The residents of Fort Worth, Texas, and its suburbs in Tarrant County share the dubious honor of being the area most pounded by hailstorms than in any other part of the state, according to data compiled from the National...
Nov 29 2012 // 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. Van...
Nov 28 2012 // Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Programs LLC announced a $273,731 dividend to the Texas Green Industry Workers’ Compensation Safety Group (TGI), bringing total dividends paid to the group to $3,246,032. The...
Nov 26 2012 // Authorities in Southeast Texas continue to investigate a 100-vehicle highway pileup on Thanksgiving Day that killed two people.Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Chuck Havard tells KFDM-TV that investigators will...
Nov 25 2012 // A year since it began enforcing a ban on texting while driving, a North Texas city says awareness has increased despite the small number of tickets written.Arlington police have issued 49 citations to drivers who were seen...
Nov 21 2012 // Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett’s blood had an alcohol level twice the legal level for drunken driving when he died in a car crash in Southeast Texas. Bennett was 33 when he died in a single-vehicle crash happened...
Nov 19 2012 // Mary Barrow Nichols, senior vice president and general counsel for Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has been awarded the 2012 Magna Stella Award for Major Litigation from the Texas General Counsel Forum.The Magna Stella Awards...
Nov 19 2012 // U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Vann Energy Services LLC in Nixon, Texas, with 13 safety and health violations including two willful and three repeat for exposing...
Nov 19 2012 // Two days after a train suddenly plowed into a parade float, killing four war veterans, the city of Midland, investigators and the victims’ families began what likely will be a long, painful recovery.The truck that...
Nov 19 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Karin Marshall senior vice president and managing director for its Houston and San Antonio, Texas, offices. Marshall will report to Howard McClure, regional managing director for...