All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2008 // PeopleManaging general agency and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Terri Haselden vice president and manager of the Dallas Commercial Underwriting Department. Haselden, an experienced...
Feb 24 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court on Feb. 1 handed down a long-awaited ruling in a case that many believe to be one of Texas’ most significant insurance cases in recent history. The Court reversed its May 2005 decision in...
Feb 24 2008 // Higginbotham & Associates, ATMDHigginbotham & Associates announced a partnership with Allred-Thompson-Mason-Daugherty (ATMD) in an effort to broaden its Texas presence. ATMD is a general lines insurance agency...
Feb 24 2008 // The Corpus Christi (Texas) Police Department is going to start impounding the cars of uninsured drivers, officials said.About one in three Nueces County, Texas, drivers are uninsured, compared to about one in five...
Feb 24 2008 // Chartwell Independent Insurance BrokersChartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC, a Los Angeles-based wholesale and specialty insurance broker focusing on high-risk, hard-to-place coverage, has opened a new office in...
Feb 22 2008 // A Beaumont, Texas man pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FEMA in seeking disaster relief after Hurricane Rita. Wilyum Henderson, 50, entered the plea in federal court in Beaumont. The U.S. Attorney’s...
Feb 22 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will present two educational sessions, Newly Revised 2008 Hospital Fee Guidelines and Newly Revised 2008 Medical Fee Guidelines, sponsored by the...
Feb 21 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court this week 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 court,...
Feb 20 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance has approved Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s request to expand its workers’ compensation health care network service area, the Austin-based insurer announced.This latest...
Feb 19 2008 // An explosion rocked an oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas, Monday morning in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away.According to various press reports, four plant employees were injured and three contract workers...
Feb 15 2008 // Six members of a Houston grand jury that indicted a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife over a house fire have filed a lawsuit so they can speak about evidence in the case.By law, grand jury proceedings are secret....
Feb 15 2008 // Chloe Lieberknecht, a policy analyst with the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission will discuss the “Legislative Sunset Process” at the 37th Annual Insurance Day held by the Central Texas Chapter of Chartered...
Feb 13 2008 // The Texas Medical Association reported it has joined a legal action aimed a protecting tort reforms passed by the Texas Legislature passed in 2003.TMA said it sued to resolve several constitutional challenges to the...
Feb 13 2008 // Jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 11 rejected a cancer survivor’s claim that toxic chemicals from a Texas railroad tie plant where her husband worked caused the disease that required the removal of her...
Feb 12 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported it has proposed penalties of $210,000 against Kaufman, Texas-based Metroplex Masonry Inc. for allegedly failing to protect...
Feb 11 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) issued a reminder to consumers that windstorm insurance inspections, which are required for properties to be eligible for wind and hail coverage through the Texas Windstorm Insurance...
Feb 10 2008 // Movies — think Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep” — often make cigarette smoking look glamorous. Of course, in reality, the practice is anything but. In addition to being a leading cause...
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has reached settlements with Florida, West Virginia, seven other states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
Feb 10 2008 // The last few years have been good ones for the property casualty insurance industry in terms of profitability. But it’s been a long time coming, according to Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information...
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