All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2005 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Monday signed a settlement that ensures refunds totaling up to $10 million to Texans who unknowingly purchased vehicles that were previously damaged and deemed total losses by State...
Jan 11 2005 // Calling the practice discriminatory and unfair, Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis of Houston announced he and Senators Gonzalo Barrientos of Austin and Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso will file a bill that bans credit scoring as...
Jan 11 2005 // On Jan. 10, 2004, Texas State Senators Rodney Ellis of Houston, Gonzalo Barrientos of Austin and Eliot Shapleigh of El Paso announced their intent to file a bill in the legislative session that began Jan. 11 that would ban...
Jan 6 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas announced that more than 400 of the state’s top independent agency principals and managers will gather for IIAT’s 42nd Annual Joe Vincent Management Seminar and Big I...
Jan 5 2005 // Addison, Texas-based Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. announced the completion of two previously disclosed acquisitions.The first acquisition consists of the assets of the retail agency and franchise operations of 21st...
Jan 5 2005 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based 21st Century Insurance Group, a direct-to-consumer provider of personal automobile insurance, announced it has begun selling auto policies in Texas to provide consumers with the benefits of the...
Jan 4 2005 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research in Austin, Texas announced that National Alliance President William T. Hold, Ph.D. was named to Insurance Newscast’s annual list of the “100 Most...
Jan 4 2005 // The Dallas/Fort Worth office of Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent Burns & Wilcox announced the appointment of four new underwriting...
Jan 4 2005 // Court TV, the cable television network dedicated to covering trials and legal issues, is telling viewers the story of the 2002 bus crash near Terrell, Texas that killed five people and injured many more.A group of crash...
Jan 3 2005 // The fun and games are set to begin in Texas. No, not the Olympics nor the Super Bowl–but the Texas Legislature, of course. The legislature will open its doors Jan. 11 and bill filing started last month. Lobbyists,...
Jan 3 2005 // Countrywide Insurance Group’s Texas subsidiary Balboa Lloyds Insurance Company, is lowering its rates on homeowners insurance by an average of 20 percent in Texas, the company said. The coverage will be offered...
Jan 3 2005 // Stuart Dobbie was appointed president and chief executive officer of Dallas-based Maclean, Oddy & Associates. The appointment is effective Jan. 1.He succeeds Roy B. Oddy, who has held the title of chairman and CEO...
Jan 3 2005 // For the second year in a row, Oklahoma workplaces set records for lower numbers of recordable injuries and illnesses, as well as lower injury and illness rates, according to the state’s Department of Labor....
Dec 28 2004 // The Republic Group, headquartered in Dallas, introduced a new farm and ranch program that will be available beginning Jan. 3, 2005.According to the company, the new program includes farm and ranch property, machinery and...
Dec 23 2004 // Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst once again called on State Farm to reduce homeowner’s insurance rates recently as he laid out the second part of the Texas Legislature’s insurance reform effort, the Associated...
Dec 23 2004 // Addison, Texas-based Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. reported it has signed definitive agreements to acquire the assets of two non-standard automobile insurance agency operations. In two separate transactions,...
Dec 22 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced its participation in a nationwide settlement with three disability insurers owned by UnumProvident Corp. over allegations of improper claims handling practices.The settlement was...
Dec 22 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported it has determined, pursuant to the authority and direction given under the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act (Texas Labor Code, Section 401.023), that beginning...
Dec 20 2004 // Texans like to say everything is bigger in Texas, but economist Robert P. Hartwig came to Dallas to explain that big numbers alone aren’t worthy of celebration. The Texas insurance industry, for example, enjoys big...
Dec 20 2004 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has thrown out an $80 million damage award involving a breach of contact lawsuit in Copiah County. The justices said the case was erroneously filed in Mississippi and should have been filed in...