All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 26 2011 // Baseball size hail hit Abilene, Texas, on April 24 causing property damage to vehicles, homes and businesses. Hail fell from a line of storms that passed over the southern half of the city and continued to move eastward...
Apr 25 2011 // Firefighters continued to make gradual progress containing massive, wind-whipped wildfires that raged across Texas on April 23, while expressing worry that a change in the weather early next week could spark a new...
Apr 22 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $211,381 dividend to the Texas Automotive group purchase program. The group’s second consecutive workers’ compensation dividend was based largely on its overall loss...
Apr 22 2011 // The Fort Worth Chapter of CPCU announced that during the past 14 years, it has donated $181,000 in total scholarships to University of North Texas students in the Risk Management and Insurance program.The group recently...
Apr 22 2011 // As part of its Advanced Insurance Law Seminar, the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas honored Austin-lawyer Joe K. Longley as the recipient of its 2011 Insurance Legend Award. This Award is given annually by...
Apr 21 2011 // As wildfires continue to rage in almost every region of the state, the Texas Forest Service reports that 6,061 fires and more than 1.8 million acres have burned since the beginning of the year.Much of the burned acreage...
Apr 21 2011 // A severe line of thunderstorms extending 100 miles pounded portions of north central Texas this week producing hail as large as tennis balls. The line extended from Denton to Hillsboro.The communities of Itasca and...
Apr 20 2011 // A state panel in Texas has recommended more education and training for fire investigators following its review of a case involving a Texas inmate executed after a fire labeled arson killed his three daughters.The Texas...
Apr 19 2011 // A wildfire in Austin, Texas, believed to have been sparked by a homeless man’s campfire, has burned 100 acres and damaged at least 18 homes.Austin Fire Department spokesman Chayer Smith said he expected the damage...
Apr 18 2011 // Tornadoes, violent thunderstorms, high wind and hail struck large swaths of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas last week and now those states are beginning the process of assessing the damage.In Arkansas, storms...
Apr 18 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has requested a federal Major Disaster Declaration for his state as a result of widespread wildfires and continuing fire danger across the state. Perry identified 252 out of 254 Texas counties that...
Apr 18 2011 // Medical costs per claim in Texas rose 8 percent in 2008, after a period of declining costs following reforms enacted in 2001 and 2005, and increased payor focus on managing medical care, according to a study by the Workers...
Apr 18 2011 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on April 1 ordered health maintenance organization Health Net Inc. to cover more than $180 million in claims by consumers, health care providers and creditors in Louisiana, Oklahoma and...
Apr 15 2011 // More than 200 students in Texas have benefited from scholarships provided by the insurance industry since 2002, the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation announced. The group has awarded academic...
Apr 14 2011 // The board of the insurer of last resort for property along the Texas coast has selected John Polak as the association’s interim general manager.Polak succeeds Randy Wipf, who was named acting general manager of the...
Apr 14 2011 // Texas State Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio has announced he is terminating his policyholder relationship with State Farm Insurance Co. because of the company’s persistent refusal to pay back customers that have...
Apr 14 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Texas-based National Lloyds Insurance Company (National Lloyds) as well as the FSR of A...
Apr 13 2011 // A National Weather Service storm survey team has confirmed that at least four tornadoes struck rural areas south and east of Dallas and Fort Worth on April 11. A line of savage thunderstorms packing damaging winds and...
Apr 13 2011 // Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved one initial application and nine renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’...
Apr 12 2011 // A judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled that State Farm Insurance Co. must comply with a state insurance department directive to repay policyholders in a long running dispute between the insurer and Texas insurance regulators...