All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 13 2007 // A settlement has been reached in an investigation that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says uncovered collusion between a Bermuda-based commercial casualty insurer and various U.S. insurance companies. The settlement...
Apr 11 2007 // Texas General Agency Inc., based in San Antonio, has hired Jay Wagoner to serve as its Product Development manager. Prior to joining TGA, Wagoner was executive vice president of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, managing...
Apr 11 2007 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) announced it has teamed up with the TDI Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), American Insurance Association, and Property Casualty Insurers Association of America to provide...
Apr 10 2007 // A call to the Texas Arson Hotline resulted in the arrest of three Sul Ross State University students following a fire in an Alpine, Texas, convenience store, according to A Texas Advisory Council on Arson (ATAC), which...
Apr 10 2007 // Richard L. Polizzi, president/CEO of Pasadena, Calif.-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. (WSS) and Kyle Stevens, chief operating officer, in Dallas, Texas, announced personnel changes following their...
Apr 10 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has submitted to the Texas Register an emergency rule to change the date on which treating doctors in the workers’ compensation system are...
Apr 9 2007 // The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...
Apr 9 2007 // Logging and Lumbering Nuts & Bolts: O’Donovan & Associates’ Timber Harvester Program is designed to provide customized coverage for the contractor who harvests and hauls timber and related products....
Apr 9 2007 // The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...
Apr 9 2007 // Most high performance, high growth independent agencies have a lot in common when it comes to finding, hiring and mentoring new producers: They dedicate the necessary time for their mentoring program and couple the...
Apr 9 2007 // Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. has completed the purchase of the Beacon Insurance Group of Wichita Falls, Texas. With the acquisition, Texas becomes State Auto’s 29th state of operation, according...
Apr 9 2007 // BOP, Beauty, Nail SalonsNuts & Bolts: Bass Underwriters has a new admitted program for BOPs targeting a varied selection of risks. The program will entertain such businesses as beauty and nail salons, clothing stores,...
Apr 9 2007 // Most high performance, high growth independent agencies have a lot in common when it comes to finding, hiring and mentoring new producers: They dedicate the necessary time for their mentoring program and couple the...
Apr 9 2007 // Commercial AutoNuts & Bolts: Texas Specialty Risk Programs is offering coverage on commercial auto fleets, 1-20 power units. Lowest pricing available. Same day quotes if requested. No loss info required. Submission...
Apr 9 2007 // Argonaut, PXREArgonaut Group Inc., a specialty underwriter headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and PXRE Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based property reinsurer, agreed to a merger under which the combined entity will do business...
Apr 9 2007 // Dallas-based KMC Insurance Services promoted Warren Lee to vice president of its commercial lines department. Lee focuses on large commercial accounts, specializing in the home building, roofing, real estate development,...
Apr 9 2007 // It could be argued that the RadioShack employees (if the charges prove to be true) were acting out of ignorance or they just didn’t care. It sounds like that argument would not apply to the insurance company, which...
Apr 9 2007 // It could be argued that the RadioShack employees (if the charges prove to be true) were acting out of ignorance or they just didn’t care. It sounds like that argument would not apply to the insurance company, which...
Apr 6 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Leonard Cano of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Cano worked for three different employers while collecting workers’ comp...
Apr 5 2007 // Dallas-based Colemont announced the addition of Catherine L. Wall as assistant vice president and associate legal counsel.In this newly created role, Wall will assist in overseeing the company’s overall domestic...