All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2011 // Actor Kyle Chandler has taped public service announcements for Texas volunteer fire departments needing money after an intense year of wildfires.Chandler, who plays a West Texas football coach in the television series...
Aug 25 2011 // Texas Medical Liability Trust announced a rate reduction for TMLT policyholders and an 18.5 percent dividend for renewing policyholders, effective Jan.1, 2012.The average rate decrease will be 6.9 percent, but will vary by...
Aug 25 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Bar H Concrete Inc. of Sulphur Springs pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County district court ordered Bar H Concrete to pay $300,000 in...
Aug 24 2011 // An Austin attorney was arrested Aug. 22 on federal racketeering charges alleging bribery of an already-convicted Texas judge, as well as witnesses in state and federal cases.Marc Rosenthal’s indictment is only the...
Aug 23 2011 // Rick Gulliver, President of Hub International to Profile Growth StrategyDALLAS, August 23, 2011 – Rick Gulliver, President of HUB International, will deliver a keynote presentation to over 400 insurance industry...
Aug 19 2011 // Wastepac, a specialized insurance facility for sanitation industries offered by MarketScout Wholesale LLC, is now available to accounts in Texas.The Wastepac Program offers property and casualty coverages designed...
Aug 19 2011 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged a petroleum distributor of selling diluted gasoline. It is the state’s third court action against the company since 2009.Petroleum Wholesale L.P., Sun Development L.P....
Aug 19 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year.Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one...
Aug 17 2011 // Texas State Low Cost Insurance (TSLCI) has opened a new location in Waxahachie, Texas, about 20 miles southeast of Dallas. The company specializes in non-standard auto insurance and also offers a variety of other property...
Aug 17 2011 // Enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance that became final during June 2011 include seven license revocations, two license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $285,521.An order imposing...
Aug 17 2011 // Disagreements among homeowners in an exclusive Galveston Island beach community have led to a fraud investigation involving a $25 million federal buyout program for houses damaged by Hurricane Ike in 2008.The state-run...
Aug 12 2011 // Texas State Low Cost Insurance announced it has opened a new office in Greenville, about 40 miles east of Dallas. The company offers a variety of property and casualty insurance products in addition to non-standard auto...
Aug 11 2011 // The Woodlands Financial Group, Inc. of Woodlands, Texas expanded its operations by opening four new branch locations.Noel Sanchez opened a new branch in San Mateo, Calif. Sanchez has 14 years of experience in the insurance...
Aug 10 2011 // Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC). The final actions...
Aug 10 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. said five safety groups it underwrites have earned a combined $965,513 in workers’ compensation dividends. The dividends were based largely on each group’s overall loss ratio. The...
Aug 9 2011 // Mary Travis, IMS/London American, was presented with the 2011 Jack Claitor Memorial Scholarship at the meeting of the Texas Surplus Lines Association. TSLA President Todd Teitell said Travis is the 21st recipient of this...
Aug 5 2011 // BancorpSouth, Inc. announced that its banking subsidiary, BancorpSouth Bank, and the First National Bank of Hughes Springs, Texas, have entered into an agreement under which BancorpSouth will sell to First National its two...
Aug 4 2011 // Federal authorities say 20 South Texas residents have been convicted for their roles in a scheme to defraud the American Family Life Insurance Co. In mid-June, 36 people were indicted on accusations they participated in...
Aug 3 2011 // Red-light crashes fell 25 percent at hundreds of Texas intersections after traffic cameras were installed, researchers said in what was called the first statewide study of its kind.The Texas Transportation Institute...
Aug 2 2011 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will take its message of preparing for a hurricane down the Texas coast for its annual media tour in late August. The ICT team will consist of company personnel, insurance agents,...