All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing, and...
Feb 10 2008 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation hired Michael Page as director of safety and loss prevention.Page previously was director of loss prevention services for Workforce Safety and Insurance in North Dakota and...
Feb 10 2008 // ASI LloydsASI Lloyds (ASI) of St. Petersburg, Fla., is entering the personal property insurance market in Louisiana. ASI was a recipient of the Insure Louisiana Incentive program. ASI plans to begin writing new homeowners...
Feb 10 2008 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) confirmed in late January that it had reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
Feb 10 2008 // The U.S. business owners policy (BOP) market consists of nearly 21 million enterprises and produces more than $20 billion in premiums. Within this broad market sector, 44 percent of the premium opportunity is concentrated...
Feb 8 2008 // Two independent agencies from South Central states were among the six insurance firms from across the country recognized as “Top Performing Agencies” by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of...
Feb 8 2008 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham & Associates announced it has partnered with Allred-Thompson-Mason-Daugherty (ATMD) in an effort to broaden its Texas presence.ATMD is a general lines insurance agency based in...
Feb 8 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a licensed professional counselor has pleaded guilty to charges of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case in a Travis County, Texas, district court.John Ann...
Feb 8 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 6 2008 // Tupelo, Miss.-based BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, said Monday it has signed a deal to buy JMG/IC Insurance Agency Inc., of Nacogdoches, Texas.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Feb 6 2008 // State Auto Insurance Companies (State Auto) reported that A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to “A+” (Superior) from “A-“(Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR)...
Feb 5 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...
Feb 5 2008 // Universal North America Insurance Company, with corporate offices in Texas and Florida, has agreed to acquire the renewal rights to approximately 11,500 policies from the personal lines portfolio of Canton, Mass.-based...
Feb 4 2008 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank, headquartered in Tupelo, Miss., has agreed to acquire the Nacogdoches, Texas — based JMG/IC Insurance Agency, Inc.The effective date of the...
Feb 4 2008 // The Corpus Christi Police Department will 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 statewide, Chief Bryan...
Feb 4 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host seminars in Austin and Dallas in April to focus on developing issues impacting the Texas workers’ compensation system.The 2008 Workers’ Compensation Spring...
Feb 1 2008 // A day after wildfires burned almost 30 square miles across Texas, a few more blazes sprang up Jan. 30 while victims sifted through the charred remnants of their homes.Gary Karr spent the day moving debris from his...
Jan 31 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance December 2007 resulted in eight license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $1,591,264, the department reported.An order...
Jan 31 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...
Jan 30 2008 // A volunteer at a community radio station in Austin, Texas, set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed, police said.Paul Webster Feinstein, 24, has...