All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2007 // 122The number of levees nationwide that are at risk for failing, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had threatened levees, but only two had more than a...
Feb 11 2007 // Privately owned insurance and risk management firm, McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P., has named Mike Rutledge a partner. Rutledge is a vice president in MHBT’s Fort Worth, Texas, office.Rutledge’s career in...
Feb 11 2007 // The old saying “all politics is local” is born of the realization that the things that most directly affect us are local issues. In that respect, one could say that insurance is a local business. Risk...
Feb 11 2007 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin presides over one of the largest insurance markets in the nation. He began his term as commissioner in 2005, just months before Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, sending hundreds...
Feb 11 2007 // Hail events remain a constant threat to property and casualty insurers. In 2005 alone, there were over 13,000 hail storms in the United States. According to Swiss RE, four out of the top 20 most costly insurance losses of...
Feb 9 2007 // Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company has received approval to write surplus lines business in Louisiana as of Jan. 24, 2007, and Texas effective Feb. 1.Prime,...
Feb 8 2007 // Chicago, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah – Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), received approval to...
Feb 8 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Patricia Chavez of Sabinal, Texas pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.The Travis County 390th Judicial District Court sentenced Chavez to three...
Feb 6 2007 // State Rep. Harvey Hilderbran (Kerrville) has filed House Bill 1022 and House Joint Resolution 54 which clarify that personal vehicles used for the production of income are exempt from ad valorem taxation.“Most small...
Feb 5 2007 // A proposed ban on smoking in all bars, restaurants and work sites across Texas is igniting a big-money fight at the state Capitol.Anti-smoking forces are lining up against the tobacco industry and some restaurant owners,...
Feb 5 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that MedAlert Inc. pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 331st District Court ordered MedAlert to pay $2,842 in restitution to Texas...
Feb 1 2007 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has proposed the creation of a $50 million Disaster Contingency Fund to help state and local governments respond to public emergencies. “As we have learned from disasters like hurricanes Katrina...
Feb 1 2007 // U.S. Risk Brokers, a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, announced that Tiffany Way has been promoted from associate broker to broker. She is located at U.S. Risk Brokers’ Austin, Texas, office.Way is...
Jan 31 2007 // A study commissioned by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) shows that the economy of the entire state of Texas would be severely impacted if a Category 3-type hurricane were to hit heavily populated areas of...
Jan 31 2007 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the company’s use of unapproved contracts...
Jan 31 2007 // Austin, Texas, independent insurance agent Vicky Lindsey has been named to the national board of NorthStar, the agent advisory panel for Encompass Insurance. Her appointment was effective Jan. 1, 2007.NorthStar provides a...
Jan 31 2007 // American Physicians Service Group Inc. announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved the merger of American Physicians Insurance Exchange with APS. The merger, announced in June 2006, has been progressing...
Jan 29 2007 // Through a series of opinions, courts seem to be gradually chipping away at insurer’s policy defenses based on late notice of claim or suit, or failure to forward suit papers. The new trend started when the Supreme...
Jan 29 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced it has a new interactive resource on the agency’s Web site, http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/commish/careers.html, describing careers available in the insurance industry: from...
Jan 29 2007 // Texas may no longer have the highest homeowner insurance rates in the country, according to the Insurance Council of Texas. For the second year in a row, both homeowners and automobile insurance premiums in Texas have...