All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2007 // The Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse conducts a Texas School Survey every two years that examines alcohol and drug use among students. The following are highlights from the 2003 survey: In 2002, alcohol was...
Mar 26 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) hired William B. Bangs IV as vice president of agency relations. In this position, Bangs will plan, direct and coordinate agency relations with insurance agents...
Mar 23 2007 // Texas State Rep. Helen Giddings announced that four bills she sponsored that deal with workers’ compensation and identity theft passed the House of Representatives and will proceed to the Senate.The first of the four...
Mar 22 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four people were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County, Texas, on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. The company’s...
Mar 21 2007 // Rulebook Supplement 2007-01 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation. The...
Mar 15 2007 // A phone call to the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office Arson Hotline helped fire investigators identify a young man and woman who were believed involved with a fire set inside a University of Texas at Austin...
Mar 14 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that on March 8, 2007, the Travis County District Court affirmed an earlier order by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin requiring Allstate Texas Lloyds to reduce its...
Mar 13 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation reported it will host eight, two-hour vendor demonstrations on the use of vendor treatment and return-to-work guidelines for disability management...
Mar 12 2007 // A total of 69,340 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work were reported in Texas private industry for 2005 according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
Mar 12 2007 // Austin, Texas-based Guaranty Insurance Services Inc., announced the addition of Charles D. “Chuck” Sears to its Arlington, Texas, branch office. Sears has been in the insurance industry for over 28 years and...
Mar 12 2007 // Incentive pay plans for agents that some insurers are implementing to replace discontinued contingency compensation could work out better for agents than the programs they are replacing.A handful of major carriers banned...
Mar 12 2007 // Carpenter Moore, USI SouthwestHouston-based USI Southwest and Car-penter Moore, a subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are partnering to provide executive liability services to public companies in Texas, Louisiana...
Mar 12 2007 // Nursing Home LiabilityNuts & Bolts: Quadrant Insurance Managers, a national management general agency, has expanded its nursing home liability product into Texas. This product offers professional and general liability...
Mar 12 2007 // Incentive pay plans for agents that some insurers are implementing to replace discontinued contingency compensation could work out better for agents than the programs they are replacing.A handful of major carriers banned...
Mar 9 2007 // RSI International Inc. announced the promotion of Holly Ballard to commercial lines underwriting manager for their Texas offices.In this newly created position, Ballard will oversee the Commercial Lines Department, and...
Mar 9 2007 // The ninth and last defendant in a staged auto accident insurance fraud ring was convicted of Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity in Dallas County District Court on February 27, 2007, the Texas Department of Insurance...
Mar 8 2007 // Fred Lusk has joined insurance wholesaler PWIB Texas as broker/underwriter, the company announced. Lusk previously was associated with other leading insurance wholesalers and has been involved that field since 1969. PWIB...
Mar 8 2007 // North Texas-based Legacy Texas Insurance announced the addition of three new commercial lines producers.Josh Bagert and Nick Paschal, a recent graduate from Southern Methodist University, began with the agency in November...
Mar 7 2007 // The Texas PTA and the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced they have launched a statewide campaign designed to prevent underage drinking.According to the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Texas...
Mar 7 2007 // The drought-like weather conditions that have plagued much of the state for the past three years have had a positive effect in limiting the number of damaging hailstorms and tornadoes in Texas.Meteorologists say the lack...