Latest Texas Headlines

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Texas AG Says Health Spa Chain Exposed Customer Records to ID Theft

Aug 7 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott cited Minnesota-based Lifetime Fitness and subsidiaries LTF Club Management Company L.L.C. and LTF Club Operations Company Inc., for systematically exposing its customers to identity...

People and Places

Aug 6 2007 // Dallas-based wholesaler Heartland Marketing Group named Jim Bishop as president. He will be responsible for Heartland’s wholesale and excess and surplus insurance operations.Bishop joins the operation from The...

Farmers rethinks homeowners rate hike in Texas

Aug 6 2007 // Texas regulators indicated they would turn down a proposal by Farmers Insurance for a 6.6 percent statewide increase in homeowners rates, so in late July 2007, the company said it will revise its plan. Ben Gonzales, a...

People and Places

Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...

People

Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...

People

Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins of PCI...

People

Aug 6 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on...

Commercial Lines Leaders

Aug 6 2007 // About the Commercial Lines Leaders:The Commercial Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only...

Informal, Working Drafts of Texas Medical Fee Guideline Rules Posted

Aug 2 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) posted on its Web site the informal working draft rules concerning medical reimbursements for professional services and workers’...

Lubbock Businessman Appointed to Chair Texas Mutual Board

Aug 1 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Richard Cooper of Lubbock has been named chair of the company’s board of directors. Cooper replaces Martin Young Jr. of Houston, who served as chair since 1995.Cooper is...

Hub Buys Texas-Based Rigg Group’s Retail, Wholesale Operations

Aug 1 2007 // Hub International Ltd. reports it has agreed to acquire all of the stock of The Rigg Group, Inc., one of the largest Texas-based insurance brokers.The acquisition includes The Rigg Group’s subsidiaries Wm. Rigg Co.,...

Texas’ June Enforcement Actions Result in $190K in Fines, Restitution

Jul 31 2007 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June resulted in nearly $191,000 in fines and restitution, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.The actions include...

Energy Group Earns 3rd Texas Mutual Dividend

Jul 30 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $72,147 dividend to the Lone Star Energy (LSE) purchasing group. The dividend was based largely on the group’s premium volume and loss ratio. LSE has earned more than...

Texas Mutual Pays $125M in Dividends

Jul 26 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it is distributing approximately $125 million in individual policyholder dividends, the largest in the company’s history. Approximately 37,500 employers, representing about 79...

Central Texas CPCU Society Chapter Names New Officers

Jul 25 2007 // The Central Texas Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society announced the newly elected officers for 2007-2008. The new officers are: President – Stephanie Harvey, senior underwriter of...

Texas Workers’ Comp Stakeholder Meeting Set for Aug. 1

Jul 25 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced it will hold a stakeholder meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2007, to allow for comment on informal working draft rules concerning...

Republic Promotes Lawson, Adds Gonzalez

Jul 24 2007 // Dallas-based The Republic Group announced two key personnel appointments.Ron Lawson was promoted to vice president – Personal Lines and Tony Gonzalez joined Republic, succeeding Lawson as assistant vice president,...

Hundreds Turn Out for Asbestos Screening in Dallas

Jul 24 2007 // More than 500 current and former residents of a West Dallas, Texas, neighborhood that was home to a vermiculite plant showed up for a recent asbestos screening, officials said.Parkland Memorial Hospital used a $250,000...

My New Markets

Jul 23 2007 // Truckers, Motor Truck Cargo Nuts & Bolts: Frontline Underwriters Inc., an independently owned and operated wholesale MGA, specializes in the placement of motor truck cargo, and offers physical damage and...

Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform

Jul 23 2007 // Legislation passes House, heads for the Senate; but not all in the industry think it’s the answer as now writtenInsurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House...