All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2008 // Workers’ comp premium rates in Arkansas will continue on the declining path they have followed since the state passed workers’ compensation legislative reform in 1993, when a 12.8 percent rate decrease takes...
May 16 2008 // Back-to-back storm systems surprised Central Texas overnight on May 14-15 with intense winds and heavy hail damage in localized areas that has insurance agents and companies responding to thousand of property damage...
May 15 2008 // Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. CEO Frank R. Berry and President Diana G. Berry are retiring. The Austin, Texas-based managing general agency chose to perpetuate by passing the leadership of the firm to Mike Berry,...
May 15 2008 // Insured losses from severe storms on April 17 that hammered areas west of Fort Worth, Texas, with softball size hail now exceed $200 million, the Insurance Council of Texas reported.An estimated 33,000 homeowner claims and...
May 14 2008 // An appeals court in Texas overturned a $7.75 million verdict against Merck & Co involving its withdrawn pain drug Vioxx Wednesday, ruling that evidence presented at trial failed to prove the medicine caused the heart...
May 13 2008 // As the town of Picher, Okla., begins to climb out of the wreckage of the deadly tornado that swept across Southeastern Oklahoma and into Missouri and beyond over the May 10 weekend, some are predicting that the town may...
May 12 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) and Allstate Texas Lloyd’s (Allstate) have reached agreement to settle all outstanding litigation with respect to homeowners...
May 9 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reached an agreement with El Paso-based CNG Financial Corp. and its subsidiaries, Check ‘n Go of Texas Inc. and Southwestern & Pacific Specialty Finance Inc., over charges that...
May 7 2008 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency LLC and Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $59,360.36 dividend to the Texas Home Builders Workers’ Comp (THB-WC) purchasing group.Formed in September 2005 the group is exclusive to...
May 7 2008 // Debbie Bostick has rejoined Texas-based Quirk & Company as a new business account executive for the Commercial Lines Division. Building on her previous 18 year tenure with Quirk & Company, she will focus on the...
May 6 2008 // Stephens Insurance LLC expanded its commercial and retail insurance service capabilities in Texas by adding 10 staff members to its Austin office.Founded in 1987, Stephens Insurance offers insurance services throughout the...
May 5 2008 // Todd Richardson joined State Auto Insurance Company’s Austin, Texas-based Middle Market and Large Account (SAMMI) facility.Richardson brings more than 19 years of experience to his new role as a SAMMI account...
May 2 2008 // The wife of a Texas Supreme Court justice has been indicted for a second time on charges connected to a fire that destroyed the couple’s suburban Houston home in the summer of 2007.A grand jury indicted Francisca...
May 1 2008 // Louisiana and Texas share a lot. Besides sharing a common border, they share the Gulf of Mexico — both its bounty and its battering, in the form of tropical storms and hurricanes. The latter greatly influences the rates...
Apr 30 2008 // Relatives of those killed in a 2005 BP plant explosion and other industrial accident victims are urging the Legislature to undo a Texas Supreme Court ruling in a high-profile workplace injury case.“If no one is held...
Apr 29 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during March include five license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $130,400.Copies of...
Apr 25 2008 // Violent thunderstorms produced tornadoes, large hail and heavy rains over west and north Texas on April 23 causing a considerable amount of damage. The worst losses appear to have occurred where the storm clouds began...
Apr 24 2008 // The Gibraltar Group will open an office in Goldthwaite, Texas, on May 5 to serve businesses in Central Texas, the company reported.Warren Blesh, who has more than 25 years of commercial insurance experience, will lead...
Apr 23 2008 // Colemont Insurance Brokers has introduced TExcess, a new employers’ excess indemnity insurance (EEII) policy available for larger Texas employers who are non-subscribers to the workers’ compensation...
Apr 22 2008 // Bill Pollock is passionate about protecting directors of companies.The Dartmouth College and University of Virginia law school graduate has been a director and a CEO, and understands from both sides the position company...