All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2004 // Texas Medical Liability Trust, Texas’ largest medical liability insurance provider, announced it would reduce rates by an additional 5 percent for member physicians. The 5 percent reduction is in addition to a 12...
Sep 20 2004 // Perhaps coming under the heading of, “you can take the man out of Texas but you can’t take Texas out of the man,” William Thornton, president of Acadia Insurance Company in Westbrook, Maine, was presented...
Sep 20 2004 // The Board of Directors of the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) promoted Kristin Wall to the position of president and chief operating officer. Wall was previously executive vice president and COO....
Sep 16 2004 // The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission thinks the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission should be abolished. At a Sept. 15 meeting, the committee recommended that TWCC’s current structure should be dismantled...
Sep 16 2004 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced court-approved settlements with two major auto insurers that he says will result in refund more than $3.4 million to Texas policyholders who paid more out of pocket on claims...
Sep 14 2004 // The Republic Group (Republic), based in Dallas, announced the appointment of Ron Lawson as director, Product Development and Marketing of insurance operations. In this newly created position, Lawson will assist in the...
Sep 14 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Mike Barron is the company’s new senior vice president of financial services. Barron is a certified public accountant with over 30 years of experience in finance. Barron...
Sep 10 2004 // Three-fourths of uninsured Texans have full-time jobs but cannot afford health insurance, according to a report released recently by the Texas Association of Business.The study also shows that more than half of Texans...
Sep 8 2004 // Announcing its entrance into the Texas malpractice insurance market, Advocate, MD Insurance of the Southwest said its improved coverage options and excellent rates are proof that tort reform efforts ushered in last year...
Sep 6 2004 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Summit Global Partners of Texas Inc. announced the selection of Diane N. Sandlin as property and casualty practice leader of its Austin and Houston offices.Sandlin will manage...
Sep 6 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission recently approved the reapplication for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by nine private employers. Texas law allows certain large, private...
Sep 6 2004 // Allstate Texas Lloyds, an affiliate of the Allstate Corporation will issue refunds of 8.75 percent of the premium paid by its Texas home insurance customers for policies with effective dates from Sept. 7, 2003 through...
Sep 6 2004 // It’s been a year since the voters of Texas passed Proposition 12, which ushered in reforms designed to lower the cost of medical liability insurance for doctors and health care institutions, and its supporters are...
Sep 6 2004 // Some things never change. Just last August in this column I wrote about important developments in the decade-long Texas debate over the insurability of punitive damages in, “Punishing Who? The Debate Over Insuring...
Sep 6 2004 // Texas South Central • Aug. 13, 2004 “How about making the charge to get an MVR (Motor Vehicle Record) reasonable instead of making it a huge profit item for the states? If it only cost $1 to run one instead of $5...
Sep 6 2004 // Texas/South Central • Aug. 13, 2004 “How about making the charge to get an MVR (Motor Vehicle Record) reasonable instead of making it a huge profit item for the states? If it only cost $1 to run one instead of $5...
Sep 6 2004 // Vista Insurance Partners, based in San Antonio, appointed Margie Bishop as senior broker/underwriter. Bishop will work with current and new Vista agents to develop new business and retain existing accounts and will locate...
Sep 2 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Jaime Cano of Brownsville, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County judge sentenced Cano to six months of deferred...
Sep 1 2004 // The Texas insurance industry could find itself in a cash crunch if a storm like Hurricane Charley hit the coast, and insurers could be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners across the state, industry officials said.The...
Aug 31 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced it has provided the Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner with new average weekly wage rates effective Sept. 1, 2004. Under Section 408.047 of the Texas Labor...