All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 10 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E).State law allows employers in similar industries to reduce their...
Oct 10 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-05 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation. The supplement can...
Oct 10 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas is hosting workers’ compensation seminars on Nov. 7 and Nov. 15 that focus and provide training on the new rules adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to implement...
Oct 9 2006 // Speaker after speaker at the Sept. 20 workers’ compensation conference held by the Insurance Council of Texas recognized that while reform of Texas’ workers’ compensation system has come a long way, there...
Oct 6 2006 // A federal judge has sentenced two men to six years in prison for their roles in the failure of a Tulsa, Okla. insurance company.Besides prison terms for convictions on embezzlement, wire fraud and money laundering charges,...
Oct 5 2006 // A South Texas company whose bus exploded and killed 23 nursing home residents as they fled from Hurricane Rita has been convicted of failing to maintain its buses and follow inspection regulations, and conspiring to lie on...
Oct 5 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. reported it has gained certification to offer its workers’ compensation clients in the Houston area access to The Hartford Workers’ Compensation Health Care...
Oct 4 2006 // Specialty Risk Services, LLC (SRS) announced the certification of its Texas Workers’ Compensation Health Care Network by the Texas Department of Insurance. The company will begin offering the new network to all...
Oct 3 2006 // Kyle Stevens, executive vice president, announced that Western Security Surplus has increased capacity to write property coverage, including wind and hail, in Harris County, Texas. Now agents and brokers in Harris County...
Oct 3 2006 // Irving, Texas-based Homeowners of America Insurance Company announced that Joe Graziano has joined the company as a marketing representative. He will concentrate on the North Texas region.Graziano has over thirty...
Oct 3 2006 // Guaranty Insurance Services, Inc., the second-largest independent insurance agency in Texas, has acquired South Valley Insurance of Bakersfield, Calif.South Valley Insurance (SVI) will operate as a division of Walter...
Oct 2 2006 // Don Etheredge, president of Texas Surplus Lines Association, announced that the 2006, 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting is being held Nov. 12 and 13 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas.Speakers scheduled are:...
Oct 2 2006 // Medicus Insurance Company, providers of comprehensive medical malpractice insurance, announced it is offering lower-priced, fully regulated medical malpractice coverage to Texas health care providers.Medicus’ launch...
Sep 29 2006 // The CPCU Society elected new officers and governors during the CPCU Society’s 62nd Annual Meeting and Seminars in Nashville, TN, Sept. 9-12. These new positions are effective immediately.The following officers of the...
Sep 29 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County, Texas, grand jury indicted Higgie Highsmith of San Antonio on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Highsmith allegedly collected $7,112 in...
Sep 29 2006 // USG Insurance Services Inc, a national broker of commercial insurance headquartered in Tampa, Fla., announced that Jodi Berger was promoted to assistant branch manager for its Arlington, Texas, branch. In addition, Heath...
Sep 28 2006 // Donald “Dee” Margo was an underdog from the moment he announced plans to run against 10-year incumbent State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh.The 54-year-old insurance company executive is well-funded and well-connected....
Sep 27 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it has determined that any interest or discount provided for in the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act shall be at the rate of 8.53...
Sep 26 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that the workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for Fiscal Year 2007 is set at $673.80 and is effective for dates of injury...
Sep 26 2006 // Texas hybrid car owners can now take advantage of a 10 percent discount on auto insurance offered by Travelers, the company announced. The discount complements other Texas perks for hybrid drivers.The company clarified...