All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 28 2011 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, announced that its subsidiary, American Hallmark Insurance Co. of Texas, is acquiring TBIC Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Texas...
Mar 25 2011 // The board of the insurer of last resort for property along the Texas coast has named a new acting general manager and is moving forward with a search for an interim general manager.Randy Wipf, a current employee of the...
Mar 25 2011 // A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC) has honored the Austin Fire Department’s Arson Investigations unit with its 2011 Law Enforcement Award. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding effort to achieve...
Mar 22 2011 // Texas-based insurance broker Bowen, Miclette & Britt Inc. has expanded into the Florida market though the acquisition of Huckleberry Sibley & Harvey Insurance & Bonds.The acquired agency, HSH, has a client base...
Mar 22 2011 // Two pieces of legislation recently filed in Texas would require insurance companies to provide customers with more complete information on rate increases and expand resources available to consumers for shopping the...
Mar 22 2011 // Texas agents who sell policies for the Texas wind insurance pool need to provide banking data to the association in order to begin receiving monthly direct deposit commissions.The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has...
Mar 22 2011 // Just over a week after the massive earthquake hit the sprawling Texas Instruments chip plant here, a gardener is reworking the Japanese garden in an inner courtyard of the office tower attached to the plant.The garden is a...
Mar 21 2011 // Two lawmakers have introduced separate but similar bills aimed at reforming the troubled state-backed wind risk insurer for property along the Texas coast.At a packed hearing on Mar. 15, Texas House of Representaives...
Mar 21 2011 // Management of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association was taken over by the Texas Department of Insurance in late February as lawmakers and regulators criticized the association’s adminstrative functionality and...
Mar 21 2011 // Texas-based commercial insurance and risk management firm, K&S Insurance Agency, announced that John D. Marek has joined the company as partner. Marek will help lead the firm’s new business recruitment and sales...
Mar 21 2011 // After years of maintaining that the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify were independent duties in a liability policy, the Texas Supreme Court held in 1997 that the same allegations used to determine that no duty to...
Mar 21 2011 // Advocate Reinsurance PartnersGoss Reinsurance Brokers LLC, a privately owned reinsurance intermediary firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced it has changed the company name to Advocate Reinsurance Partners LLC. The...
Mar 18 2011 // An anonymous phone call to the Texas Arson Hotline has led to the arrest of three juvenile gang members in Bastrop County. The three teenagers reportedly terrorized a neighborhood for more than a year before burning an...
Mar 15 2011 // Legislation filed in Texas would create a “loser pays” legal system that Texas Gov. Rick Perry says would provide stronger protections against frivolous lawsuits.House Bill 274 and Senate Bill 13, sponsored by...
Mar 14 2011 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during January 2011 include seven license revocations, four license denials and fines and restitution totaling...
Mar 11 2011 // Dallas-based Hispanic Affiliates General Agency LLC (HAGA) announced it is actively recruiting Hispanic independent agents in Texas.According to the company’s announcement, HAGA provides independent agents marketing...
Mar 10 2011 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for February 2011....
Mar 10 2011 // Texas State Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, has introduced House Bill 2818, a comprehensive reform effort intended to address many of the problems confronting the Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency (TWIA).In announcing the...
Mar 9 2011 // Austin, Texas-based medical professional liability insurance carrier, Medicus Insurance Co., has added Kevin Wier as marketing manager. Prior to joining Medicus, Wier managed brand and communication efforts at The...
Mar 9 2011 // Texas lawmakers are considering eliminating a program that requires those charged with offenses including driving while intoxicated and failure to have insurance to pay state surcharges.Nearly 60 percent of those with the...