All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2012 // An attorney and a case runner have been sentenced in Texas on felony charges related to soliciting business from victim’s family after a fatal accident.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced in late May that...
Jun 4 2012 // Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win,...
Jun 4 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail in coastal counties will remain under the administrative control of state regulators and in August will file a 5 percent rate increase to become effective Jan. 1,...
Jun 4 2012 // Critical Restructuring“Restructuring is critical to TWIA’s ongoing operations so we don’t keep digging a deeper hole for ourselves. There will be no eminent decisions on the administrative...
Jun 4 2012 // BenefitSpecialists, Higginbotham Insurance GroupHigginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will...
Jun 4 2012 // Workplace trust, fear of claim denial and injury severity are the main reasons for attorney representation in workers’ compensation claims, according to Bogdan Savych, a public policy analyst with the Workers...
Jun 4 2012 // Two of Texas most populated counties now have teams dedicated to fighting insurance fraud.Harris County (Houston) and Bexar County (San Antonio) both have new insurance fraud prosecutors and investigators whose salaries...
Jun 1 2012 // Travelers Insurance announced it is introducing a wind credit for fortified homes in Texas that meet established standards designed to resist the impacts of tropical storm and hurricane winds.Travelers currently offers...
Jun 1 2012 // Today marks the start of another hurricane season and many Texans are wondering if we can go one more year without a destructive storm.The last hurricane to strike Texas proved to be the costliest. Hurricane Ike struck...
Jun 1 2012 // Texas-based CoVerica Agency Alliance, a master agency member of SIAA, has signed its 50th member agency — Knott Insurance Group of Desoto, Texas — bringing SIAA’S national total to more than 4100 signed...
May 30 2012 // Specialty Risk Associates Inc., headquartered in Shreveport, La., has added Rhonda Lobell as a commercial lines underwriter and Dolores Tutt as a personal lines underwriter.Lobell will be working at the Baton Rouge, La.,...
May 29 2012 // Excellere Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, announced that its subsidiary, Personable Insurance, has acquired Endeavor General Agency LLC, a Royce City, Texas-based non-standard personal automobile managing...
May 28 2012 // Texas has a new state fire marshal.Texas Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman has appointed Chris Connealy, former fire chief for Cedar Park, as the state’s new fire marshal, A Texas Advisory Council on Arson...
May 25 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has expanded its fight against insurance fraud into San Antonio. TDI Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman has announced the placement of a special insurance fraud prosecutor and investigator...
May 24 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co.’s board of directors has approved the company’s plan to distribute $150 million in workers’ compensation dividends.This marks the 14th consecutive year the board has approved a...
May 24 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has a newly elected 2012-13 Management Committee.The new committe includes: President Roger Luttrell, president of Benton-Luttrell-Brown in Van Alstyne, Texas;...
May 23 2012 // A federal judge in Texas has ordered that state parole officials can be held personally liable by inmates suing over restrictive sex-offender conditions required of them, even though they were never convicted of a sex...
May 22 2012 // A North Texas couple have been sentenced to prison for their part in a conspiracy to defraud the city of Garland, Texas, of nearly $2 million by filing fraudulent damage claims against the municipality.Kenneth Wayne Brown,...
May 21 2012 // Recent rainfall across much of West Texas has diminished to less than 2 percent the area of the state in the worst drought stage.Records show that hasn’t happened since March 2011. The U.S. Drought Monitor map...
May 21 2012 // No More Cellphones“We really need better rules, regulations and laws, and corporations need to have a no-cellphone policy while operating a vehicle.” —Thomas J. Henry, attorney for a Texas woman who received...