All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2010 // Hurricane Alex strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday and was expected to make landfall later in the day but skirt Mexican oil rigs and U.S. oil fields, alleviating concerns in crude markets.The first named...
Jun 30 2010 // Eric R. McGinnes has been named senior vice president at El Paso, Texas-based insurance brokerage and risk management firm, JDW Insurance. Currently McGinnes holds the position of vice president of JDW Commercial Lines...
Jun 30 2010 // During the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Roadcheck 2010, which ran from June 8 through June 10, DPS troopers inspected 6,906 commercial vehicles.Twenty-five percent of them, or 1,738, were placed out of service...
Jun 29 2010 // As of 10 a.m. CDT on June 29, Tropical Storm Alex was nearing hurricane strength in the western Gulf of Mexico and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects it to reach hurricane status later in the day. The storm is...
Jun 28 2010 // With Tropical Storm Alex skirting the east coast of Mexico and heading north, if residents along the Texas Gulf Coast are thinking it’s a good time to purchase flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance...
Jun 28 2010 // In most hurricane-prone states, homeowners have few choices of insurance coverage, with just eight property and casualty insurers in each state controlling up to 77.2 percent of the market share, according to Weiss...
Jun 25 2010 // Affinity Benefits Partners, a Hotchkiss Insurance Programs LLC (HIP) company, has teamed up with Pan-American Benefits Solutions to offer an exclusive health benefits program for restaurants in Texas.PanaMed, underwritten...
Jun 24 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $471,031 dividend to the Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The group’s third annual dividend grew $383,228 over last...
Jun 24 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) honored Stacey Boldt, assistant branch manager with Town & Country Insurance in Galveston, with the Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) of the Year award...
Jun 23 2010 // Corpus Christi, Texas independent insurance agent Wallace C. (Wally) Goodman has won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Drex Foreman Award, and Landon Ogilvie, partner at Gans & Smith Agency in Longview,...
Jun 22 2010 // Fast decisions on life-and-death cases are the bread and butter of hospital emergency rooms. Nowhere do doctors face greater pressures to overtest and overtreat.The fear of missing something weighs heavily on every...
Jun 22 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011.Other newly...
Jun 21 2010 // Essential Insurance, HigginbothamThe Essential Insurance Group LLC, a property/casualty insurance and surety agency serving greater Houston, has joined forces with Higginbotham & Associates, a national insurance...
Jun 21 2010 // Lloyd Eisenrich, president of Weatherby-Eisenrich Inc. in Andrews, Texas, has been elected president of Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin.The other members of the 2010 CAA management committee...
Jun 16 2010 // Addison, Texas-based Mullis Newby Hurst L.P., which specializes in construction insurance and surety bonds, recently hired Mike Wiggins as an account executive. Wiggins, who was a top producer for Liberty Mutual in Central...
Jun 16 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken in March and April by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) include removal of providers from Designated Doctors list and insurance company...
Jun 15 2010 // America First Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company based in Richardson, Texas, has appointed Ray Jimenez to assistant vice president, Specialty Lines.In this position, Jimenez will be responsible for...
Jun 14 2010 // Mark Bridges and Bry Ewan got the idea for creating a producer development program within the Combined Agents of America (CAA) while attending a producer school in Florida.Bridges explained that during his first year in...
Jun 11 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 10 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Jun 11 2010 // Vehicle thefts among Allstate insured Texans dropped 2.5 percent last year, the company announced, but the cars being snapped off the street are heading farther south of the border — even overseas. The insurer and...