All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2012 // There may not be a hefty number of property/casualty insurance issues taken up by the Texas Legislature when it convenes in 2013, but there’s certain to be one dominating topic to counter any lack of diversity. That...
Nov 19 2012 // The state of Louisiana sent a $3.5 million bill to the Texas company it blames for a massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than five acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer. Attorney General Buddy...
Nov 16 2012 // Williams & Davis Boilers Inc.in Hutchins, Texas, has been cited for repeat, willful and serious safety hazards violations and fined $131,670, federal regulators say.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Nov 16 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. t it is distributing approximately $1.8 million in workers’ compensation dividends.Approximately 3,000 new policyholders earned dividends based largely on their workplace safety and claim...
Nov 14 2012 // Hurricanes may garner more attention but in Texas, hailstorms, not hurricanes, are the most damaging weather events that Texans face annually, according to the state’s insurance regulators. And, unlike hurricanes,...
Nov 14 2012 // Texas Rep. Tom Craddick (Midland) has filed House Bill 63, the Alex Brown Memorial Act, which would implement a statewide ban on texting while driving.According to Craddick, House Bill 63 introduces a common sense safety...
Nov 13 2012 // Among the hundreds of bills filed by Texas lawmakers on the first day of filing for the 2013 legislative session are a handful of proposals related to property/casualty insurance.There are bound to be more, but one...
Nov 12 2012 // The state of Louisiana sent a $3.5 million bill to the Texas company it blames for a massive sinkhole that has swallowed more than 5 acres of land in Assumption Parish and contaminated an aquifer.Attorney General Buddy...
Nov 9 2012 // A Belton, Texas-based cabinet manufacturer has been cited by federal regulators for safety violations in the workplace and faces a fine of $64,800.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Nov 8 2012 // Private industry workplaces in Texas reported a total of 196,642 nonfatal injuries and illnesses during 2011, an incidence rate of 2.7 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, which was unchanged from the previous year,...
Nov 8 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) is offering its members remote staffing services provided by WAHVE (Work At Home Vintage Employees) on a preferred basis.WAHVE provides experienced insurance professionals...
Nov 6 2012 // Millions of dollars have been pumped into typically low-spending Texas Legislature races in recent weeks by groups hoping to limit the amount of money that can be awarded in lawsuits and attorneys fighting such...
Nov 6 2012 // Budget cuts have reduced the number of pharmacies in Texas whose compounded drugs are tested in a state program that’s aimed at ensuring patient safety, a newspaper has reported.The Austin American-Statesman said the...
Nov 6 2012 // The average cost of a workers’ compensation claim in Texas declined recently, following several years of growth, according to a new study, Monitoring the Impact of Reforms and Recession in Texas: CompScope 13th...
Nov 5 2012 // Texas employers are seeing a major reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premiums, an insurance trade group reports. The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) says the drop is the result of reforms in House Bill 7,...
Nov 5 2012 // Patently Unfair“The whole idea that a court would send someone there involuntarily and then charge them for it is patently unfair.” —L. Jeth Jones, an attorney for a Texas man ordered to a state psychiatric...
Nov 5 2012 // Dominic Casserley will serve as the next chief executive officer of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, effective Jan. 7, 2013.Also, Steve Hearn, currently the chairman and CEO of Willis Global, will serve as...
Nov 5 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for coastal property has paid out more than $1.2 billion in individual litigation costs related to 2008’s Hurricane Ike, one state lawmaker says.Information released by Rep. Larry...
Nov 4 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance is declaring “War on Hail” with a symposium to be held in Irving on Nov. 27.The department noted that Texas leads the nation in hailstorm damage. In 2011, insured residential...
Nov 2 2012 // A former North Texas insurance salesman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and must repay more than $9.3 million in a fraud case.Federal prosecutors in Dallas say 76-year-old Robert Hague-Rogers of Frisco wrongly...