All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission has scheduled a public hearing for Feb. 17, 2005. The Commission will take testimony on rule amendments that were proposed at the Jan. 20 public meeting. The proposed rules...
Feb 3 2005 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, announced it returned a dividend of approximately $45,000 to the Texas School Group, a purchasing group.The group dividend is separate from...
Feb 2 2005 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham & Associates announced it has named seasoned property and casualty insurance broker Curtis W. Page a vice president at its Austin office.Page joins Gregory Meserole and Matt Burns,...
Feb 2 2005 // Texas Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor recently delivered to Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Legislature the final report on a credit scoring study conducted by the Texas Department of Insurance.In a letter...
Feb 1 2005 // AAA Texas County Mutual Insurance Company, the insurance affiliate for AAA Texas, has filed for an 8.7 percent average automobile insurance rate reduction effective today for new business and March 14 for renewing...
Feb 1 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has delivered to the state legislature its final phase of its report on insurers’ use of credit information. According to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Jan 28 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) strongly denounced as inaccurate and misleading, the claims made against independent agents and brokers by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a Washington-based...
Jan 26 2005 // First Acceptance Corporation, a provider of non-standard personal automobile insurance, announced it has acquired the assets of San Marcos, Texas-based HCS Claims Service Inc. dba Heritage Claims Services Inc., and LGNP...
Jan 25 2005 // On Jan. 26, 2005, the Texas Department of Insurance will hold a public hearing on proposed additional increases to the limits of liability for certain Texas Windstorm Insurance Association windstorm and hail insurance...
Jan 24 2005 // The question of whether or not to revamp the current workers’ compensation system in Texas is pretty much of a no-brainer, since just about everyone involved thinks it’s broken. The question that remains is how...
Jan 24 2005 // Alan McClain of Little Rock was appointed chief executive officer of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. McClain was named to the post after former CEO Julie Benafield Bowman accepted appointment as...
Jan 24 2005 // The Central Texas chapter of the CPCU Society will hold its January luncheon meeting on Jan. 25 at the offices of Farmers Insurance, 2541 S. Interstate 35, Austin. Rod Bordelon, executive director of the Office of Public...
Jan 24 2005 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Henry Prince of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and must pay restitution to the insurer. The Travis County 147th...
Jan 21 2005 // San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced the availability of a new homeowners product for Texas. The coverage is written by Balboa Lloyds Insurance Company, an admitted market rated...
Jan 21 2005 // Justice David Puryear with the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 21 struck down a $117.5 million settlement Farmers Insurance Group reached with the state in 2002 over homeowners rates.Texas Attorney...
Jan 18 2005 // James R. (Bob) Sullivan has been named the new president of Texas-based Columbia Lloyds Insurance Company effective Jan. 15, 2005, the company announced. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Sullivan has 23 years experience in...
Jan 17 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently proposed the creation of a state Inspector General position that would monitor large state agencies—including the Texas Department of Insurance and the Texas Workers’ Compensation...
Jan 16 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that three of its policyholders received Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) awards from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The SHARP...
Jan 14 2005 // Texas State Senator Todd Staples of Palestine has introduced Senate Bill 5, designed to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation program.“In Texas, we spend far more to treat on-the-job injuries, but we...
Jan 12 2005 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Henry Prince of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and must pay restitution to the insurer.The Travis County 147th...