All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2006 // Many of the wildfires that plagued Texas during the first half of January 2006 may have been started intentionally, according to the Texas Forest Service. Some 70 wildfires in Texas are thought to have been started by...
Jan 22 2006 // In certain situations, employees may seek care outside the network. An employee who has a pre-existing relationship with an HMO doctor may receive treatment for a workers’ compensation injury from that...
Jan 19 2006 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently approved the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure covering a one-year period for 13 private employers in Texas. Commissioner...
Jan 18 2006 // Independent insurance agency Higginbotham & Associates, based in Fort Worth, Texas, added brokers John Huggins and Mark Vann to its managing director team to recognize their individual sales production of $1 million...
Jan 18 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2005-04 containing emergency rules recently adopted by the Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’...
Jan 18 2006 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service and the Texas Civil Justice League announced a candidate forum, Feb. 15, 2006, that will feature candidates seeking seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Third Court of...
Jan 17 2006 // The Austin, Texas-based National Alliance Research Academy announced it has developed a long-term advisory task force on insurance producer leadership. The group’s distinct purpose is to share information in order to...
Jan 17 2006 // On Jan. 6, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to rehear an insurance case watched closely by policyholders nationwide.In Excess Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London v. Frank’s Casing Crew & Rental Tools Inc., the...
Jan 17 2006 // Despite mounting losses from another devastating hurricane season, property and casualty insurance company failures declined 44 percent, dropping from 16 to nine, while solid economic growth resulted in no bank closures in...
Jan 13 2006 // An 18-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with two arson fires in Bowie County, Texas.Randal Kight was questioned in connection with a series of wildland fires that have plagued the town of Maud, southwest of...
Jan 11 2006 // Texas Insurance Professionals (PIA Texas) announced it has planned a cruise for its 2006 Convention.The convention will be held during the Memorial Day weekend, May 25-29, which the association said will allow small...
Jan 10 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, recently secured a criminal conviction against Don A. Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. TDI said Bauer...
Jan 10 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has directed the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the State Fire Marshal’s office of the Texas Department of Insurance and the Texas Forest Service to...
Jan 9 2006 // Duncan, Fraser & Bridges Insurance Agency Inc., a member of Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA), announced it has purchased Amarillo, Texas-based independent insurance agency, Edmond, Deaton & Stephens....
Jan 6 2006 // Six new wildfires flared up in Texas on Jan. 5 and fire fighting crews were battling about two dozen smaller fires in Oklahoma, the Dallas Morning News reported. In Texas, houses and other structures were threatened by...
Jan 5 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry will deliver a special luncheon address to nearly 400 of the state’s most progressive and influential independent insurance agency principals and managers when they gather for the Independent...
Jan 5 2006 // Firefighters contained a grass fire that destroyed an abandoned schoolhouse and a home in Shamrock, a small northeastern Oklahoma town, while officials in Texas and New Mexico also worked to keep fires under control amid...
Jan 4 2006 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC.According to Hallmark, Aerospace Holdings, through Aerospace Insurance Managers Inc. and...
Jan 4 2006 // The American National Bank of Texas of Terrell, Texas, has acquired Dallas-based insurance agency Sleeper, Sewell & Company. Terms of the transaction were not announced. Led by President and CEO Robert A. Hulsey,...
Jan 3 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Jan. 2 traveled to Nacona and Ringgold, two towns in fire-ravaged Montague County where 3,200 residents were evacuated to safety yesterday. Perry met with local officials and took a helicopter tour...