All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2008 // The minimum amount of automobile liability insurance Texas drivers are required to carry for bodily injury/property damage will increase on April 1 from the current $20,000/$40,000/$15,000 (“20/40/15”) coverage...
Mar 24 2008 // While the oil and gas market can be seen as including pipeline and distribution operations, petroleum and petroleum product wholesalers, fuel oil dealers and even gas stations, the dominant North American Industry...
Mar 24 2008 // Fourteen-year-old Buck John of Jefferson, Texas, wants to earn his Eagle Scout award and do something good for his community. His letter to Texas State Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado may help him accomplish both.Buck’s...
Mar 24 2008 // Texas Farmers Insurance CompanyTexas Farmers Insurance Company filed a rate increase for its “Texas Family Home Policy” with the Texas Department of Insurance. The increase would impact 200,000 customers or...
Mar 24 2008 // Since last August, the Texas Supreme Court has issued a half dozen major insurance cases, many on issues pending for years. The Court recently heard argument in key cases involving the insurability of punitive damages in...
Mar 20 2008 // When Bobbie Cameron became pregnant with her third child, she reluctantly chose a new doctor to oversee her care. Her longtime physician had dropped out of the birthing business because of soaring malpractice insurance...
Mar 20 2008 // In Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, the Texas Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, whether punitive damages were insurable in Texas. No. 04-0728, 2008 Tex. LEXIS 123 (Tex. Feb. 15, 2008). The...
Mar 19 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Bonnie DeVries as a transportation underwriter, located in the Dallas office. DeVries has extensive experience in transportation underwriting, specializing in local, intermediate and long...
Mar 18 2008 // Stating it’s the first rate change in two years for its “Texas Family Home Policy,” Farmers Insurance Group, through Texas Farmers Insurance Company, filed a rate increase for the policy with the Texas...
Mar 17 2008 // Despite the insurance industry’s traditional reliance on averages, averages don’t always make sense when comparing premiums. In Texas, as elsewhere, individual premiums are subject to so many variables — from...
Mar 14 2008 // The State Auto Insurance Companies said it will begin offering personal insurance products in Texas on March 15, less than a year after the Columbus, Ohio-based insurer acquired Beacon Insurance Group of Wichita...
Mar 14 2008 // In 2007, Texas insurers recorded one of their most profitable years of the decade, prompting some consumer advocates to call for tougher state regulation on homeowner rates.Financial reports released by the Texas...
Mar 13 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced Donald Miller of Yoakum on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Miller received one year of probation and was ordered to pay $2,132...
Mar 13 2008 // An aviation fueling company with headquarters in New York has agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to black and Hispanic workers at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport who said they were taunted with hangman’s...
Mar 12 2008 // Both the Texas FAIR Plan Association and the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) have elected new officers for 2008-2009.For the Texas FAIR Plan, James Langford, vice president, Texas Farm Bureau Insurance...
Mar 12 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a new workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Construction Supply (TCS).The group offers a workers’ comp option for qualifying supply yards, building material...
Mar 11 2008 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin recently signed an order increasing the maximum limits of liability from $3,390,000 to $4 million for a commercial or government building insured for wind and hail by the Texas...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...
Mar 10 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Blanket Accident Insurance Nuts &...