All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2007 // Officials with the Insurance Council of Texas say Hurricane Humberto, which hit the state last month, caused about $30 million in insured losses in Texas. Humberto made landfall on Sept. 13 near High Island, a coastal town...
Oct 22 2007 // By controlling its losses, the Texas Green Industry (TGI) workers’ compensation purchasing group earned $637,511 dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company.Texas Mutual says TGI has earned more than $1 million in...
Oct 18 2007 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association will hold its annual meeting Nov. 11 and 12 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin.The Nov. 12 session includes: Gary Schumann, partner in the law firm of Savrick, Schumann, Johnson,...
Oct 18 2007 // Zurich North America named Marcus Cooper regional executive for its South Central Region, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Cooper will be based in Zurich North America Commercial’s Dallas,...
Oct 17 2007 // On Oct. 15, Travis County District Judge Margaret Cooper ruled in favor of Allstate Texas Lloyd’s in the company’s quest to preserve an already-implemented homeowners rate increase.Cooper granted the...
Oct 16 2007 // Burlington, N.C.-based TAPCO Underwriters Inc. (TAPCO) has introduced a specialty contractors program, offering monoline general liability coverages to agents in Texas, the company announced. TAPCO opened its Texas...
Oct 15 2007 // More than 750,000 Texans are driving without valid licenses because they haven’t paid stiff annual penalties – as much as $2,000 for three years – added to various traffic violations in 2004.The state has...
Oct 12 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance enforcement actions that became final during August 2007 include five license revocations, a license denial, and fines and restitution totaling $205,428, the department reported.An order...
Oct 11 2007 // Rep. Larry Taylor (Friendswood), an insurance agent, was appointed by Texas House of Representatives Speaker Tom Craddick to the Property Casualty Insurance Legislative Oversight Committee. Rep. Senfronia Thompson...
Oct 11 2007 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host seminars in Austin and Dallas in November to track and analyze actual workers’ compensation claims through the Texas system. The 2007 Workers’ Compensation Fall...
Oct 10 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI) will hold a public hearing on Nov. 5, 2007, in the Room 100 at the Hobby Building, 333 Guadalupe Street in Austin.The public hearing will...
Oct 10 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced a Bryan, Texas, business owner on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.James N. Vavra was sentenced to two years’ deferred...
Oct 9 2007 // For the fourth year in a row Texans filed fewer complaints against their insurance companies with the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), the Insurance Council of Texas reported.According to information from TDI’s...
Oct 9 2007 // Two administrative law judges in Texas rejected State Farm’s plan to increase homeowner insurance rates, calling the hike too excessive in a proposed decision issued Oct. 5.State Farm Lloyds Inc. had appealed to the...
Oct 8 2007 // Texas experienced 49 fewer railroad accidents — the largest decrease of any state — in the first half of 2007 than it did during the same period in 2006. The decrease was part of a trend of continuing railroad...
Oct 8 2007 // In early 2008, most drivers in Texas (read, “many of your insureds”) will come under the new Financial Responsibility Verification Program aimed at reducing the number of drivers without proper proof of...
Oct 8 2007 // In early 2008, most drivers in Texas (read, “many of your insureds”) will come under the new Financial Responsibility Verification Program aimed at reducing the number of drivers without proper proof of...
Oct 8 2007 // Texas experienced 49 fewer railroad accidents — the largest decrease of any state — in the first half of 2007 than it did during the same period in 2006. The decrease was part of a trend of continuing railroad...
Oct 4 2007 // The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said the fire that destroyed the home of Texas Supreme Court Justice David Medina this summer was “very suspicious” and is being investigated as arson.The fire...
Oct 4 2007 // President George W. Bush declared six Texas counties disaster areas on Tuesday, Oct. 2nd because of damage from Tropical Storm Erin in August.The declaration makes Bexar, Harris, Jones, Kendall, Medina and Taylor counties...