All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2012 // Dallas-based property/casualty insurance agency, CoVerica, has hired Jim Bailey as senior vice president. The role will include traditional vice president responsibilities, as well as developing the company’s...
May 21 2012 // Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either.The combined ratio held steady...
May 21 2012 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is taking issue with one of the nation’s largest homeowners insurer’s plan to non-renew thousands of policies for properties along the Gulf Coast.Abbott said his office is...
May 21 2012 // Another job was the last thing Bill Henry wanted when he was approached to head up a new division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF). But Henry, chairman and CEO of the Dallas-based brokerage McQueary...
May 20 2012 // Federal regulators have imposed a fine of more than $200,000 against an aluminum products manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas, for safety and health violations.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational...
May 17 2012 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for wind and hail in coastal counties will remain under the administrative control of state regulators and it will file for a 5 percent rate increase in August to become effective Jan....
May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...
May 16 2012 // Federal regulators recently proposed fines against a Texas-based cabinet manufacturer over safety and health violations.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Zamco...
May 16 2012 // Police say a man arrested in a Southeast Texas city for riding his unicycle in the nude was distracting drivers and creating a hazard.Kemah police Chief Greg Rikard says 45-year-old Joseph Glynn Farley was not intoxicated...
May 15 2012 // Houston-based Francesca’s Holdings Corp. reported it has fired its chief financial officer, saying that he improperly communicated company information through social media.But the women’s clothing retailer also...
May 15 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance is currently developing a process for obtaining an Alternative Certification for obtaining windstorm insurance in coastal areas.Under the Alternative Eligibility Program, residential...
May 10 2012 // Southeast Texas has a new team dedicated to fighting insurance fraud.Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman and Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos announced that the Harris County...
May 9 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Houston-based AWC Frac Valves Inc. with one willful, six serious and four other-than-serious violations for exposing workers at...
May 8 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) has recognized Detex Corp. of New Braunfels and James Avery Craftsman Inc. of Kerrville with the Peer Review Safety Program Award.The...
May 7 2012 // Texas regulators have launched an investigation into new allegations that a beleaguered public hospital in Dallas fired a social worker after she filed a complaint that her superiors had asked her to violate safety...
May 7 2012 // A Corpus Christi jury awarded $24 million to a woman who was hit by a Coca-Cola truck driver who was chatting on her cellphone.The jury decided to give 37-year-old Vanice Chatman-Wilson $10 million in punitive damages and...
May 7 2012 // Texas officials say that illegal moving companies are operating statewide, putting consumers at risk for losing their belongings or paying a ransom for getting them back.At a recent press conference, Texas government and...
May 7 2012 // Kyle Stevens, president and CEO of Western Security Surplus Insurance, announced organizational changes in the company’s Dallas office and a new hire for WSS’ Roseville, Calif., office.Jennie Reed has been...
May 7 2012 // Across the nation, employment levels in insurance agencies and brokerages declined at a faster rate than the overall U.S. employment level since the recession began in 2007. The good news: Some independent agencies across...
May 7 2012 // In advance of the June 1 start of hurricane season, the actuarial underwriting committee of Texas’ property insurer of last resort for coastal counties is recommending a rate increase.The committee on April 20...