All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...