All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 19 2012 // A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students on Jan. 17, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people — 29 of them children — to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected...
Jan 19 2012 // State agriculture officials say a destructive citrus plant disease that has wiped out crops in Florida has been confirmed in Texas.The Texas Department of Agriculture on Jan. 18 announced that a section of Hidalgo County...
Jan 19 2012 // Federal officials have cited a Sunnyvale, Texas-based tile manufacturer for safety violations and proposed $318,000 in penalties.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited...
Jan 19 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported Marvin Solano of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County district court ordered Solano to pay $140,038 to Texas Mutual, pay a...
Jan 18 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) recently named Pete Gise as controller and David Williams as vice president of claims.As controller, Gise manages financial reporting, accounts receivable processing and...
Jan 16 2012 // The board of Southwestern Insurance Information Service has elected Sandra Helin as president of the organization effective March 1. Helin will succeed Jerry Johns who will be retiring March 1, 2012. A 13-year veteran of...
Jan 12 2012 // R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale broker of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, has acquired Texas-based insurance wholesale firm Maclean, Oddy & Associates Inc. (MOA). MOA is a specialist broker for unusual property and casualty...
Jan 11 2012 // A combination of record drought, epic wildfires, hard economic times and slashed state funding has put added stress on volunteer fire departments in Texas.Chris Barron, executive director of the State Firemen’s and...
Jan 11 2012 // RiskMeter.com, a provider of real-time natural hazard risk reports, has added a Texas wildfire report to its service. This report will return a property’s proximity to wildfire risk by simply entering an address or...
Jan 10 2012 // The New Year ushered in changes to the operation of Texas’s insurance company of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast.Many of the operational changes will affect insurance agents who handle Texas...
Jan 9 2012 // Gov. Rick Perry has renewed a proclamation declaring Texas a disaster due to the drought.Perry renewed the proclamation on Dec. 27, a year after he initially declared the drought a disaster. The proclamation allows...
Jan 9 2012 // The Texas Medical Liability Trust has acquired the Florida-based Physicians Insurance Co. The Deerfield Beach, Florida-based Physicians Insurance has been operating in the state since 2003. According to a 2011 Office of...
Jan 9 2012 // No Single Answer“Distracted driving is a serious problem and in our increasingly mobile world, it is becoming the norm. As we have seen with other motor safety issues such as seatbelt use and drunk driving, there is...
Jan 9 2012 // The New Year is ushering in changes to the operation of the insurer of last resort for wind and hail along the Texas coast.Many of the operational changes will affect insurance agents who handle Texas Windstorm Insurance...
Jan 9 2012 // Frost Insurance, Stone PartnersTexas-based Frost Insurance acquired Stone Partners Inc., a human resource consulting firm that specializes in compensation, benefits and outsourcing services, effective Jan. 1. Stone...
Jan 9 2012 // Two insurers that together hold the lion’s share of the homeowners insurance market in Texas are either in the process of raising rates or have filed for increases.Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman on Dec. 1,...
Jan 9 2012 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service elected Lyndell Haigood, regional vice president of State Auto Insurance, as chairman of the board; David Lacefield, executive vice president, National Lloyds Insurance, as vice...
Jan 6 2012 // TDECU Insurance Agency LLC announced the acquisition of Associated Insurance Agency Inc. (AIA) based in Houston, Texas. The purchase was finalized Jan. 3, 2012.Associated Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency...
Jan 5 2012 // La Nina, the weather phenomenon widely blamed for withering drought in the southwestern United States and South America, may last longer than expected, into the Northern Hemisphere spring, the U.S. Climate Prediction...
Jan 5 2012 // Federal securities regulators filed suit against a Texas-based provider of so-called “life settlements,” accusing it and three top executives of defrauding shareholders by overvaluing the life insurance...