All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 19 2008 // Garrett Insurance Agency Inc. has joined Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) as its 36th member agency. Garrett Insurance Agency was established in Kerrville, Texas, in 1918 by W. G. Garrett Jr. and L. D....
Aug 15 2008 // The Texas Attorney General’s Office reports that a new identity theft scam is targeting users of the Texas Debit Card, or EPPICard, to access child support payments. should beware of that targets EPPICard users. The...
Aug 14 2008 // Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company and its subsidiaries American National Property and Casualty Company and American National General Insurance Company plan to fight a jury verdict in a case related...
Aug 13 2008 // Criminal charges were being considered against a Houston motorcoach owner and president whose bus crashed in north Texas killing 17 Vietnamese Catholics on their way to a religious festival in Missouri, according to a...
Aug 13 2008 // A news disaster recovery center has been opened in Sebastian, Texas, with Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) staff on hand to assist South Texas consumers with Hurricane Dolly-related insurance issues.The new DRC opens in...
Aug 12 2008 // Companies linked to a bus that crashed in Texas and killed 17 people, most of them from Vietnamese Catholic congregations on their way to a religious festival, pose an “imminent hazard” and must cease...
Aug 12 2008 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently announced it is assuming the responsibility of getting exterior photographs and inspecting all structures submitted for coverage, whether residential or...
Aug 11 2008 // The operator of the tour bus that wrecked in an accident that killed 17 members of a Houston church Aug. 8 was not legally licensed and had no insurance. In addition to the fatalities, 40 people were injured when the bus...
Aug 8 2008 // Enforcement actions by Texas Commissioner Mike Geeslin in June included five license revocations, a license denial, and fines and restitution totaling $4,422,505, theTexas Department of Insurance reported.Copies of...
Aug 7 2008 // A Texas Railroad Commission has found violations by a natural gas utility and one of its subcontractors connected to a deadly gas-related explosion in a Dallas suburb.The May 16 explosion destroyed two homes in McKinney...
Aug 7 2008 // Bill Manney has announced his retirement from Texas-based insurance wholesaler Myron Steves after 40 years of service in the insurance industry. Manney served Myron Steves as West Texas business development...
Aug 6 2008 // Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas Gulf coast east of Galveston Aug. 5 with strong winds and heavy rain, but did little more than soak the travelers who came to relax on the tourist town’s beaches.The National...
Aug 5 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported a $304,515 dividend to the Social Services Agencies of Texas purchasing group. The dividend rewards the group for preventing workplace accidents and controlling claim...
Aug 5 2008 // Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall in Southeast Texas this morning between High Island, just east of Galveston, and Port Arthur, near the Louisiana border.The National Hurricane Center had expected the rapidly...
Aug 4 2008 // A swiftly developing Tropical Storm Edouard is expected to make landfall very near the upper Texas coast or the coast of southwestern Louisiana by Tuesday, Aug. 5, the National Hurricane Center reported.As of Monday...
Aug 4 2008 // Tropical Storm Edouard forced shut a huge U.S. offshore oil port, a refinery, some oil production and disrupted shipping as the storm raced toward the Texas-Louisiana coast Monday.Energy companies evacuated staff from...
Aug 4 2008 // Travelers, Nationwide Mutual and two leading national insurance producer organizations are supporting a plan they say will make private windstorm insurance more affordable and available in coastal areas.Federal legislation...
Aug 4 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...
Aug 4 2008 // Catastrophe risk specialist RMS says the insurance bill for damage from Hurricane Dolly, which hit Southwest Texas on July 23, may go as high as $750 million, while Boston-based AIR World-wide estimates damages between...
Aug 4 2008 // Funding, funding, funding. Those are three most important issues for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association in advance of the 2009 legislative session, according to one industry lobbyist and advisor.There are other...