All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2008 // Midlands Management Corp. of Oklahoma City named Richard Jonathan Bird as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Bird will assist in leading all aspects of Midlands, including strategic marketing, business...
Mar 10 2008 // Two Oklahoma cities are among the 35 safest in the nation, according rankings based on the FBI’s uniform crime report. One Texas town, Sugarland, was among the five safest.Broken Arrow, Okla., was listed as the...
Mar 10 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court in late February 2008 rejected Allstate Corp.’s challenge to a Texas law that restricts insurance company ownership of auto collision repair shops.Allstate sought review of its case at the high...
Mar 10 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 7 2008 // Twelve companies with approximately 32,500 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Mar 7 2008 // The Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association has elected of officers for 2008-2009.Elected chair of the Governing Committee is Corise Morrison, executive director, residual markets, USAA, San Antonio. She previously...
Mar 5 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) is accepting public comment on proposed rules regarding notification to health care providers of contractual agreements with informal...
Mar 4 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Texas Home Builders (THB) workers’ compensation purchasing group is now an open program. Any licensed Texas agent can help their clients take advantage of the...
Mar 4 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by The Texas Department of Insurance that became final during January 2008 include nine license revocations, a license denial and fines and restitution totaling $569,867.Only final orders are...
Mar 4 2008 // Fourteen-year-old Buck John of Jefferson, Texas, wanted to earn his Eagle Scout award and at the same time, do something good for his community. His letter to Texas State Fire Marshal Paul Maldonado may help him accomplish...
Mar 3 2008 // Universal North America Insurance Company (Universal) announced it has begun offering automobile insurance coverage in Texas. Universal, a multi-regional personal lines carrier, already provides homeowners insurance and...
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in private industry in Texas increased in...
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in December 2007 and January 2008....
Feb 28 2008 // Spared the wrath of a fast-moving wildfire that shifting winds turned elsewhere, thankful residents of this small West Texas town worked Tuesday to get back in their routine.Schools were closed for the day but expected to...
Feb 27 2008 // Firefighters across West and Central Texas continued to battle wildfires Tuesday that burned at least 200,000 acres, injured several people and forced the temporary evacuation of the 1,500 residents of Robert Lee, Texas,...
Feb 27 2008 // Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since the fall following surgery to remove a cyst, is one of 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas’ medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday.The lawsuit,...
Feb 25 2008 // Three construction workers were hurt last week when the fourth floor of a building under construction collapsed in northwestern San Antonio.Fire officials say the construction site is at the Shops at La Cantera shopping...
Feb 24 2008 // Mercator, Tennant Risk ServicesMercator Risk Services, a specialty wholesale insurance broker, acquired Tennant Risk Services Insurance Agency LLC, a Hartford, Conn.-based wholesale broker and underwriting manager. Terms...
Feb 24 2008 // Two independent agencies from South Central states were among the six insurance firms from across the country recognized in January 2008 as “Top Performing Agencies” by the Independent Insurance Agents &...
Feb 24 2008 // Texas Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ruttiger Texas App. 1st Dist. Jan.17, 2008 Bad faith cause of action lies against workers’ compensation carrier. An individual was injured on the job. The workers’ compensation carrier...