All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation is holding registration for its annual Workers’ Compensation Conference on December 4-5, 2006, in Austin.Participants can register for the...
Sep 13 2006 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) announced that Hoyt Utay has joined the firm’s Dallas, Texas, office as sales professional in Personal Insurance Professionals, a division of MHBT that was formed to provide the...
Sep 13 2006 // The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), a national trade association that represents doctor-owned and/or operated medical professional liability insurance companies, reported that medical liability reforms...
Sep 13 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has changed its complaint resolution process by going “paperless,” using VisiFLOW document management software and TDI’s...
Sep 12 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a public hearing on Oct. 5, 2006, in Conference Room 100 (Commissioner’s Conference Room) of TDI’s Central Office located in...
Sep 12 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced an agreement with a Dallas-based “debt settlement” company that will result in refunds to consumers who filed or will file complaints about fees for services...
Sep 11 2006 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service will host a Public Policy Forum, “A Preview of the 2007 Legislative Session,” on Nov. 10, 2006, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Dallas, Texas.The event will offer 2.0...
Sep 8 2006 // Sick and injured Texans now have more physicians who are more willing and able to give them the medical care they need, closer to home thanks to the state’s 2003 health care liability reforms, according to the...
Sep 7 2006 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has named Jeff Rose as Deputy First Assistant Attorney General. Rose has served as chief of the Civil General Litigation Division at the Office of the Attorney General since 2003,...
Sep 6 2006 // The American Insurance Marketing and Sales (AIMS) Society welcomed the Texas Insurance Professionals/Professional Insurance Agents of Texas as a sponsor of the Certified Professional Insurance Agent professional...
Sep 5 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during July.The actions include 24 license revocations, one license denial and fines and...
Sep 5 2006 // Hoping to keep potential drunken drivers off the road, a new designated driver service is offering rides home for its customers and their cars.PointZero8, which started giving rides in San Antonio last week, sends two...
Sep 4 2006 // Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however, one out of four professionals responsible for corporate disaster preparedness efforts...
Sep 4 2006 // Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, most companies have some form of disaster response plan in place; however, one out of four professionals responsible for corporate disaster preparedness efforts...
Sep 4 2006 // Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma all experienced higher rates of workplace fatalities in 2005, as compared to 2004. However, the total number of workplace deaths dropped by 15 in Louisiana last year. Transportation-related...
Sep 4 2006 // IIATIndependent insurance agency principals, key personnel and leading industry vendors will gather in Waco, Texas, in mid-October for the second annual Small Agency Conference sponsored by the Independent Insurance Agents...
Sep 4 2006 // There are “35 million people living along the hurricane-prone coast that stretches from North Carolina to Texas. Half of these live in Florida, 10 million on the Atlantic coast and seven million on the Gulf coast....
Sep 4 2006 // No ‘pixie dust’ for reform, Texas work comp chief saysWith that statement Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts introduced his message to a crowd of insurance professionals attending...
Sep 4 2006 // PeopleRISC, based in Dallas, promoted Beth Winstead to senior vice president in its Brokerage Department. Winstead joined RISC in 1997 as a casualty broker and has been one of its most consistent performers since that...
Sep 4 2006 // Insurance Agents E&ONuts & Bolts: London American Professional Liability LLC, a program administrator and MGA, introduced a new professional liability program for insurance agencies. The program is designed for...