All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2007 // Allstate Texas Lloyds on Aug. 20 announced two filings that would raise its homeowners insurance rates in Texas by 5.9 percent and 2.1 percent, but Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin immediately moved to block the...
Aug 21 2007 // Dallas, Texas – August is the peak month for hurricane season – which ends November 30 – and forecasters this month predicted at least three tropical storms are likely to strengthen into...
Aug 21 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four workers’ compensation claimants were sentenced, in separate cases, for fraud. The claimants collected a combined $17,346 in benefits they were not entitled to, the...
Aug 21 2007 // Texas holds the dubious distinction of leading the nation in alcohol related traffic deaths, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The number of fatalities due to drunken driving in the...
Aug 20 2007 // Some South Texas areas have begun taking precautions as Category 4 Hurricane Dean charted a course toward the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, with the Texas coast a possible target.City officials in Brownsville...
Aug 17 2007 // At least 15 people who worked at or lived near a West Dallas, Texas, vermiculite plant suffer from symptoms of asbestos-related illnesses, according to preliminary findings from X-ray screenings.Doctors at UT Health Center...
Aug 16 2007 // Tropical Storms Erin and Dean should serve as a wake-up call to anyone living along the Texas coast that hurricanes may not be too far away.“There is no better time than now to prepare evacuation plans and gather...
Aug 15 2007 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced that Charles R. Ball was appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Division’s Texas office.In this position, Ball will...
Aug 14 2007 // Dallas-based GAINSCO, Inc. and its insurance subsidiary MGA Insurance Co. Inc. have agreed to sell their affiliate General Agents Insurance Co. of America, Inc. to Montpelier Re U.S. Holdings Ltd. for $4.75 million.The...
Aug 14 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas will hold its third annual Small Agency Conference in Waco on Sept. 23 and 24 at the Waco Convention Center and the association expects continuing growth in attendance at the...
Aug 14 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts during June and July 2007. The final...
Aug 14 2007 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies announced it has introduced its admitted excess flood insurance policy in Texas. With the inclusion of Texas, Chubb has launched its flood insurance products in 27 states and the...
Aug 13 2007 // Gov. Rick Perry recently signed a joint Senate and House resolution passed during the 80th Texas Legislature affirming support for continued state regulation of the insurance industry, the Independent Insurance Agents of...
Aug 13 2007 // Fla.-based Brown & Brown Inc. and the Combined Group Companies, of Carrollton, Texas, announced the asset acquisition of the Combined Group by a Brown & Brown subsidiary.The acquisition includes Combined Group...
Aug 13 2007 // Dallas-based Swingle Collins & Associates announced that the agency, in conjunction with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company’s Heritage program, presented a $5,229 grant to Dallas Fire Rescue Station #20. The...
Aug 10 2007 // Austin, Texas-based Medicus Insurance Co. recently announced its entry into the professional medical liability insurance market in Illinois.Supporters of more companies entering the Illinois market credit the passage of...
Aug 10 2007 // A Longview company has voluntarily recalled more than 4,200 Cloud’s tuna salad and egg salad sandwiches – some of them distributed in Arkansas – because of the possibility they could be contaminated with...
Aug 9 2007 // New Jersey-based National Atlantic Holdings Corporation announced plans to enter the standard and preferred auto insurance market in Texas in late 2007. National Atlantic will offer its auto coverage in conjunction with an...
Aug 9 2007 // Kemper announced it has introduced INFINITY, an enhanced homeowners program designed for homes in Texas valued from $400,000 to $1.5 million.According to the company’s announcement, INFINITY features three primary...
Aug 7 2007 // Hub International Transportation Insurance Services Inc. (HUB Transportation) acquired Templeton Southwest Insurance Agency Inc. and Templeton Southwest of Houston Insurance Agency Inc. (Templeton), according to an...