All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 14 2010 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, has appointed Keith Mattheessen as senior vice president for ACE Risk Management’s (ARM) Houston region, and Laura Vest as senior vice president and...
Dec 9 2010 // The standard minimum unemployment insurance (UI) tax rate paid by Texas employers in calendar year (CY) 2011 will be 0.78 percent, up from 0.72 percent in CY 2010, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced.The taxes...
Dec 7 2010 // The Texas Commissioner of Insurance Mike Geeslin has adopted three rules proposed by the Office of Public Insurance Counsel that prohibit discretionary clauses in health, life and disability insurance policies, OPIC...
Dec 7 2010 // An insurance company improperly denied workers’ compensation coverage for a woman injured while traveling in a company car from one workplace to another, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled.Liana Leordeanu, a...
Dec 6 2010 // Dallas-based Equity Risk Partners-Texas (ERP-Texas) has appointed Michael T. Viracola as director of Business Development.ERP-Texas was recently established as a joint venture between insurance brokers Equity Risk Partners...
Dec 6 2010 // The Texas Supreme Court has put an end to a case involving the amount some hospitals marked up workers’ compensation-related bills under rules in effect until 2008, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced.In June 2010,...
Dec 5 2010 // Frost Insurance in Austin, Texas promoted Sheri Smyth to vice president of personal lines. Smyth, a 23-year insurance industry veteran, manages the personal lines department’s growth and retention efforts, and...
Dec 5 2010 // $30 MillionA Harris County, Texas, jury rendered a $30 million verdict against the Houston-based owner of SunMart convenience stores for defrauding gasoline purchasers, according to the Texas Attorney General’s...
Dec 5 2010 // Certificates of insurance can create problems for insurance agents, especially in the areas of commercial property and the construction industry. The potential for disputes to arise is so great that the Texas Department of...
Dec 5 2010 // Certificates of insurance can create problems for insurance agents, especially in the areas of commercial property and the construction industry. The potential for disputes to arise is so great that the Texas Department of...
Dec 5 2010 // Farmers Insurance has filed for a 3.9 percent rate increase for homeowners insurance coverage in Texas. The Dallas Morning News reports that Farmers’ filing with the Texas Department of Insurance will affect about...
Dec 5 2010 // The federal financial services reform act signed by President Barack Obama in July 2010 contained a provision reforming the way surplus lines insurance premiums are reported and taxed. The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance...
Dec 5 2010 // Certificates of insurance can create problems for insurance agents, especially in the areas of commercial property and the construction industries. The potential for disputes to arise is so great that a regulator recently...
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Dec 3 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance enforcement actions for October 2010 include seven license revocations, and fines and restitution totaling $1,045,697.An order imposing disciplinary measures becomes final 20 days after...
Dec 2 2010 // Texans believe texting and talking on phones while driving is getting worse and that roads are less safe than they were five years ago, despite declines in accident deaths.A survey by the Texas Transportation Institute...
Dec 2 2010 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurer Retailers Casualty Insurance Co. announced it will begin offering workers’ compensation coverage in Texas.Retailers Casualty, which is managed by Summit...
Dec 1 2010 // Analysts’ dividend forecasts point to steady recovery BP, analysts, may be underestimating legal charges BP has history of low-balling long-term cost of disasters “Gross negligence,” punitive damages not...
Dec 1 2010 // AmWINS Group announced that effective Dec. 1, the Texas operations of Colemont Insurance Brokers has been officially renamed AmWINS Brokerage of Texas.AmWINS and Colemont announced in April 2010 that they planned to merge....
Nov 30 2010 // Todd Teitell, executive vice president and branch leader of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc.Other elected TSLA officers for the coming year...