All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 30 2012 // Brownsville once again tops the list as the safest driving city in Texas, according to the eighth annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” released by Allstate Insurance Company. The report, based...
Aug 28 2012 // A hacker who targeted Texas Department of Public Safety computers has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 31-year-old Higinio O. Ochoa III of Galveston must also pay more than $14,000...
Aug 28 2012 // This year’s top honor of “America’s Safest Driving City” is Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the average driver will experience an auto collision every 13.8 years, which is 27.6 percent less likely...
Aug 24 2012 // A Texas judge has ordered a Waco-based life settlements firm to preserve records and assets after state officials alleged the firm is in “dire financial straits.”Life Partners has been a past target of federal...
Aug 24 2012 // The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced 40 new member agencies in July. Of those, four new members are from South Central states.Twenty-nine of the 40 are agencies new to the independent agency system,...
Aug 23 2012 // The home of John and Lisa Whitt was reduced to ashes in the Bastrop Labor Day fire in Texas last year, but today, they feel like they have received more than they lost.The Whitts had 15 minutes to get everything they could...
Aug 23 2012 // In a move that’s angered consumer advocates and doctor groups, Texas’ top insurance regulator has canceled new rules designed to help consumers avoid getting big bills for out-of-network care.The rules were...
Aug 22 2012 // The Republic Group, headquartered in Dallas, has made several executive appointments.Ron Lawson has been appointed vice president, Marketing. Lawson joined Republic in 2004 as director, Marketing and Product Development,...
Aug 21 2012 // Going into the peak time of the year for hurricane development, Texas’ property insurance company of last resort in coastal areas has around $800 million in available cash to immediately handle claims in the event a...
Aug 21 2012 // Agents who place insurance with Texas’ property insurer of last resort in coastal areas apparently have been having difficulty faxing policy changes to the company. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association says the...
Aug 21 2012 // On average, 250 people killed in traffic crashes every month in 2011, Texas officials say.While the number of people killed each year in traffic crashes in Texas has decreased by about 21 percent since 2003, the Texas...
Aug 20 2012 // A Texas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a Union Pacific worker who sued the railroad after claiming he was infected with West Nile virus while on the job.A DeWitt County jury on Aug. 16 found Union Pacific partially...
Aug 20 2012 // Fed up with the inability of Texas to reform its insurance company of last resort, policyholders have left the insurer en masse to create a new, mutually owned company to cover damage to properties along the Texas Gulf...
Aug 17 2012 // Gary Sweeny still gets choked up when thinking of all of his family and friends who helped him recover from the Bastrop, Texas, wildfire that destroyed his home of 35 years. The retired school teacher and his wife who...
Aug 16 2012 // Officials say a construction worker has died in a trench collapse at a Southeast Texas refinery. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the accident happened Tuesday afternoon at a construction site at the Total...
Aug 16 2012 // Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Sunday and Associates Inc. of Sugarland, Texas. .Established in 1982, Sunday and Associates offers employee benefits consulting and insurance...
Aug 15 2012 // Gary Bonnette had traveled with his wife Cynthia and son Aaron to San Antonio to visit family members when he got a phone call saying his home was threatened by a huge wildfire. Neighbors say smoke was pouring over the...
Aug 14 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited S.J. Louis Construction of Texas Ltd. with one serious and one repeat safety violation for exposing workers to trenching and...
Aug 14 2012 // A state audit indicates traffic fatalities in Texas have declined nearly 15 percent since 2006.Texas Department of Transportation officials say increased seatbelt usage and “Click It or Ticket” traffic...
Aug 14 2012 // Tejas American General Agency (TAGA) in Cedar Park, Texas, has is partnered with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company to donate $5,000 to the Liberty Hill (Texas) Fire Department to fund specialized swift water rescue...